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As the great Yogi Berra once said, it’s déjà vu all over again. The Commission on Judicial Nomination released their list of candidates for chief judge of the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, on Friday. Vin Bonventre, the Justice Robert H. Jackson distinguished professor of law and editor …

There have been a few bumps in the road when it comes to giving home care workers a pay hike.  In order to attract more workers to the field, the New York state Senate’s one-house budget released last week included an additional $2-an-hour wage hike for home care workers. When …

At Westwood Fountain – in Westwood Pharmacy – Gov. Glenn Youngkin responds to a questions about balancing tax cuts with education spending needs. Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed into law a first batch of 51 out of 819 bills that passed both the House of Delegates and …

Anthony Scaramucci, founder and co-managing partner of SkyBridge Capital. Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan | Getty Images You might not know this, but Goldilocks and the Three Bears is actually a story about the debate currently surrounding regulation of the blockchain and crypto industries. Some people say there’s too little regulation. Some …

Buffalo’s working-class residents persevered for decades against an outward tide of people and investment. But now that money is flowing back into the city again, many find themselves with new housing problems. Rent and home prices have spiked to record highs. New apartments command monthly rents that only the relatively …

Viorel Kurnosov | Istock | Getty Images With roughly two more months before the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ends the three-year-long Covid public health emergency, more than 5 million of the nation’s households remain behind on their rent. All together, tenants continued to owe nearly $11 billion …

NEW YORK—Calling it a desirable low-risk, high-yield option, financial experts reportedly recommended Thursday that Americans invest in businesses the government will bail out anytime they fuck up. “We strongly encourage people to put their money in a secure corporation whose solvency the government will rush in to maintain whenever they …

SPRINGFIELD — In the first two months of the new legislative session, Illinois lawmakers did little to nothing of substance, mostly rolling through the motions in short weeks filled with little floor action and scant committee work. But that changed last week, when lawmakers ran up against the deadline to …

A real estate developer from northern Virginia is set to enter the Richmond market with a 283-unit community of homes in Midlothian near Westchester Commons Shopping Center. The new Hamlet Watkins Centre, built by Middleburg Communities, will have a mixture of single family homes, townhouses and duplexes developed under a …

Hounen Solar, a global solar panel manufacturer, announced plans Monday to establish its first United States manufacturing operations in Orangeburg County. The Chino, California, company plans to invest $33 million and create 200 new jobs over the next five years. The Orangeburg County facility will allow the company to manufacture …