Giving NY’s Governor A $783,000 Bribe Is Business As Usual For Rupert Murdoch

Other politicians who have benefited from Murdoch’s editorial generosity include Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush and UK prime ministers John Major and David Cameron.

Jim Naureckas
By Jim Naureckas
Rupert Murdoch attends the WSJ. Magazine 2014 Innovator Awards at MoMA on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

A Buffalo News headline (4/18/17) asked a pointed question about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo: “How Did Cuomo Make $783,000 on Memoir That Sold 3,200 Copies?” The accompanying article did not delve particularly deep into the mystery, beyond noting that the royalty amounts to $245 per copy for a book that retails on Amazon for $13.05, and that it

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New York To Become First State With Sanders-Style Free Tuition

New York will be the first state to make tuition at public colleges and universities free for middle-class students under a state budget approved by lawmakers Sunday, April 9.

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By teleSUR
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Red Room at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. (AP/Hans Pennink)

New York is set to become the first U.S. state to make tuition free for students at public state universities and community colleges if they come from low- and middle-income families, a proposal that has been endorsed by former presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders, who promised free college education for all during his campaign. The

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Alongside Sanders, NY Governor Announces First-In-Nation Free Tuition Plan

‘Our job is to encourage every person in this country to get all of the education they can, not to punish them for getting that education,’ Sanders says in New York.

Deirdre Fulton
By Deirdre Fulton
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, is joined by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, center, and Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York William C. Thompson, as he speaks during an event at LaGuardia Community College, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

(REPORT) --- With Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at his side, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced a plan to offer free tuition at state and city colleges for middle- and low-income New Yorkers. Under the Excelsior Scholarship, described as the first of its kind in the nation, students whose families make $125,000 or less per year would

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Fight For 15 In NYC Just Got A Lot More Promising And A Lot More Complicated

Bill de Blasio’s role in helping Andrew Cuomo attain the endorsement of the Working Families Party has opened up a space for a more vigorous and radical discussion of a minimum wage for NYC.

William Blueher and James Hoff
By William Blueher and James Hoff

In politics, the greatest opportunities often present themselves amid the least promising of circumstances. The New York Working Family Party's (WFP) scandalous and much decried endorsement of Governor Andrew Cuomo on June 1 is but one example of how, out of the chaos of internal conflict, opportunities for more radical change can become possible.

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NYC Parents Vs. Wall Street-Backed Charter Schools

Governor Cuomo and charter lobby ‘strong-arming’ bid to evict special needs students in favor of charter expansion

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley
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Parents and public school advocates staged a dramatic protest outside the New York City Department of Education on Tuesday against a bid, backed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and financed by Wall Street lobbyists, to evict special needs students in order to make room for charter school expansion. The demonstration is the most recent development in

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Cuomo Resumes Funding For Inmates’ College Courses

Governor Andrew Cuomo announces that New York state will again foot the bill for inmates taking college courses, citing studies that show higher education can lower recidivism rates.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
Damon Rodriguez raises his arms as he walks down the aisle during his graduation ceremony

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced that the state will resume funding college courses for state prison inmates. While state inmates were eligible for high-school level courses prior to Cuomo’s announcement, eligibility for federal and state college tuition assistance was stripped under Gov. George Pataki’s (R) administration in 1995. Cuomo

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