New York is one of the most influential and highly populated states in the union. The Empire State is also home to New York City, ranked, just above London, as the most influential global city in the world. New York is a major center of finance and culture, and has historically served as the gateway of Western immigration into the United States. It is also the single greatest source of political fundraising in the United States for both major political parties, with four of the top five zip codes in the nation for political donations in Manhattan alone.
On the day President Barack Obama filed a brief at the Supreme Court arguing, for the first time, that laws denying gay and lesbian couples the ability to marry are unconstitutional…
Westboro Baptist Church — best known for its protests and extreme ideologies against gay people — has set its next picketing site at Vassar College, a small liberal arts school in Poughkeepsie, New York. Vassar
State Sen. Jeff Klein (D-Bronx) and four fellow independent Democrats joined with the Republican conference to create an independent Democrat-Republican coalition majority.
It has been over two weeks since Hurricane Sandy rolled into the New York tri-state area, and the eastern seaboard is slowly coming back to life.
Response to Hurricane Sandy has been widely commended at the federal level, but criticized at the local level.
BROOKLYN, NY – They say only the strong survive in New York, and nothing solidifies the motto more than the events that have occurred over the past seven days. Early.
The New York Stock Exchange reopened for the first time this morning after being closed for two consecutive days. The first time the stock exchange had closed for weather reasons since 1888.
