FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Residents Demand State to Rescind Chicken Slaughterhouse Grant Zebrowski sends new letter with thousands of residents and local elected officials to Empire State Development Assemblyman Zebrowski sent a letter this week to the Empire State Development Board of Directors asking that they take immediate action to rescind the $1.6 […]
I have numerous concerns about the proposed Heritage Park Poultry Plant, which is intended to replace the former facility that was shut down by federal prosecutors because of a number of violations. I wholeheartedly supported the decision to close that facility, which put the public’s health and safety at risk. I have had numerous discussions […]
Brooklyn, New York actor and philanthropist Tony Danza was honored this week by the New York State Senate at Italian American Day in Albany. Pictured here is Senator David Carlucci with Danza.
In an enormous political upset, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his Republican primary in Virginia’s seventh congressional district Tuesday night to Dave Brat, an economics and ethics professor at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, and political unknown. According to the Associated Press, with 86.1 percent of precincts reporting Brat won with 55.8 percent of […]
The flood of illegal immigrants — particularly children — crossing into the U.S. along the southern border is at a “crisis” level, creating a humanitarian emergency that both immigration officials and lawmakers are putting at the feet of the Obama administration. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer called the overload a “crisis of the federal government’s creation.” […]
House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers called the U.S. deal with the Taliban for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl a “serious geopolitical mistake,” and said he is “absolutely convinced” that the five Taliban members transferred from the Guantanamo detention center will return to the battlefield against the United States. “We have made a serious, […]