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![]() Tom WrobleskiThe Staten Island Advance |
Gov. Kathy Hochul isn’t the only one to blame for the heinous congestion pricing tax that was set to go into effect on midnight Sunday. The plan...
You have to give Gov. Kathy Hochul credit for committing to the bit. Congestion pricing is one of the most unpopular policies ever foisted on New...
Can you feel the target on your back? You can if you’re a driver in New York City. Not only are you demonized by the anti-car crowd, but you’re...
Staten Islanders said, “Tear down this fence!” And Mayor Eric Adams actually listened. The mayor has ordered the dismantling of two hideous fences...
Lithium-ion batteries are dangerous. How many times do we have to be told? The latest example came on the night of Dec. 6, when a fire broke out at...
It’s getting like “War of the Worlds” out there, with none of us knowing fact from fiction when it comes to these mystery drones. And President Joe...
Everybody is supposed to be safe on the roads. Everybody is supposed to be held accountable for what they do out there. Except if you’re driving...
The truth is out there. Or is it? Or maybe this is a real-life version of “Independence Day,” with alien craft massing above us as they prepare...
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan: NYC DOT, tear down this fence! The city Department of Transportation recently installed fencing along what used to be...
If you didn’t know this would happen, you haven’t been paying attention. A few months ago, Gov. Kathy Hochul put the widely despised congestion...
I’ve been a registered Democrat since the first year that I was eligible to vote, back in 1982. Over the years, I have voted for Democrats and...
Members of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration this week fanned out across the city to tell New Yorkers how wonderful the mayor’s “City of Yes”...
I was born on Staten Island and but for two years in the early 1990s when I resided in Manhattan, I’ve lived here all my life. Meaning that I blew...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic candidate for vice president, recently said that he thinks that the Electoral College “needs to go” and...
Likening Republicans to Adolph Hitler or calling them Nazis and fascists is one of the most overused tropes in the Democratic Party playbook....
Not everybody is as enamored of speed cameras as New York City. Some cities in Iowa recently had to turn off most of their fixed-location speed...
Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday was indicted on federal charges of bribery, mail fraud and taking illegal campaign contributions. The mayor is...
Things were already bad enough in the City of New York. Federal investigators have been crawling over the administration of Mayor Eric Adams for...
There was a shooting at a high school on Staten Island on Thursday. And but for a tip from a reader, the Advance/SILive.com might have never heard...
We know that there’s no end to the ways that motorists get ripped off by various cities and states, from speed cameras to congestion pricing. But...
Don’t blame the refs. Vice President Kamala Harris rolled over former President Donald Trump during Wednesday’s debate. Trump supporters, of...
Mayor Eric Adams wants to build more housing in New YorkCity. The way he’s going about it could be a nightmare for motorists in the five boroughs....
Gov. Kathy Hochul has clearly gotten the message about congestion pricing: a lot of people hate it. Why else did the governor put the whole policy...
More than 3,000 people died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Untold more have died, and will continue to die into the future, from 9/11-...
It’s been a month like few others in American political history. And now we’ve seen something that most of us have never seen in our lifetimes: a...
New York City has gone all in on speed cameras in a bid to get more and more money out of drivers. But some states and cities are putting limits...