NYS Minimum Wage at $15 was a 67% increase over 7 years.
At the current rate of inflation, it’s worth about $12.
Month: August 2022
Catalina cleans Legion Triangle section of Rockaway Boulevard and Eldert Lane
“This is not my house,” she said with a smile.
Starting July 2022, NY employers are to pay a 0.23% Unemployment Insurance surcharge.
It says on the NYS Department of Labor website, it’s about $27.60 per employee. True, if employee is paid $12,000 per year. The State knew billions were paid to false applicants. Why should good employers shoulder cost of those who cheated the system? Vote Republican!
Bail reform and Congestion Pricing was passed in 2019 when State Senate was controlled by Democrats.
How was New York when the State Senate was controlled by Republicans?
August 18 8:30 pm to 6:00 am Mosquito Spraying by land (adulticide) about Forest Park, Juniper Valley and cemeteries
Mosquitos have started to come out. There seem to be more of them and more aggressive. (Photo: Dave and Eddie’s solution.) NYC’s website on Mosquito Control tracks past spraying, but it should also post number of location of 311 complaints over the years.
Row of cars dumped on Liberty Avenue in front of 106th Precinct vehicles at PO Nicholas DeMutiis Park.
Ironically, PO DeMutiis died when a stolen car rammed into his 1977 Plymouth while on duty on January 25, 1994 at this location. It’s a similar scene by 112 Precinct in Forest Hills under the LIRR trestle along Yellowstone Boulevard.
Asylum Seekers can vote for NYC Mayor and City Council members thanks to Local Law 11!
Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s recent busing of asylum seekers is helping to highlight President Biden’s wrong border policy. The City already has more than 4,000 of them. Mayor Eric Adams has given them personal attention!*? Remember that the Mayor is allowing any permanent resident and person authorized to work the right to vote also known … Read more
If you are not the Party’s candidate, fairness is not a given before the NYC Board of Elections.
It is a given that the Board of Elections is partisan. To protect party-favored candidates, creating unexpected rules and using lies and innuendos among 5 Republican and 5 Democrat Commissioners are to be expected. My Democrat opponent, Joseph P. Abbabbo, filed We The People independent nominating petition. The Queens Clerks concluded that Addabbo had 2,812 … Read more
Bike lanes along Queens Boulevard painted since 2016 did not make the Boulevard safer. How many more businesses may close before DoT’s error is reversed?
Community board and the neighborhood voted against the bike lanes in May 2016, but ex-Mayor de Blasio pushed ahead the stretch from 74th Street and Eliot Avenue until Union Turnpike. Six years later, has the death and accident count changed? Has the business along the bike lane stretch benefited from the bike lane? If not, … Read more