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Friday, May 5, 2017
cuomo sends trump to rome to collect for him
from the vatican bank for closing nassau otb on roman catholic easter dunday in preference to orthodox easter sunday. the orthodox church is like the kurds, screwed time and time again
cuomo might due well to speak with members of teamsters local 707 whose pension has been taken over by the pbgc
Cuomo signs law allowing state tax deduction of full union dues
Stop scratching on holidays Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays. New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state. “You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?” Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday. “I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.” OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running. One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000. Easy money.
Donald Trump will visit Israel, the Vatican and Saudi Arabia in first foreign trip as US president
President Donald Trump will visit Israel, the Vatican and Saudi Arabia in his first foreign trip as president this month, the White
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House as confirmed. The visits come in addition to the president's previously scheduled trip to Europe.
Senior White House officials said the purpose of the visit is to fight radicalisation in the area, while furthering US trade and development interests.
The president’s first stop will be Saudi Arabia, where he will visit the Two Holy Mosques and speak with Muslim leaders.
The president hosted Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in March, at which time the crown prince called Mr Trump as a “true friend of Muslims.” Mr Trump has accused Saudi Arabia of not treating the US “fairly” in the fight against ISIS.
“We are losing a tremendous amount of money in defending Saudi Arabia," he said.
Senior White House officials described Saudi Arabian leaders as “eager” to work with the US on fighting radicalisation and containing Iran.
The president will then travel to Israel, where Mr Trump has a largely positive relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister has praised Mr Trump’s military aggression in Syria, and called his actions a "great change in the direction of American policy." Mr Netanyahu had a strained relationship with former President Barack Obama.
At a recent meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Mr Trump said he was "committed" to working with Israel and the Palestinians to reach a peace agreement.
"Let's see if we can find the solution,” Trump said during a luncheon with Mr Abbas and his advisors. “It's something that, I think, is, frankly, maybe not as difficult as people have thought over the years.”
Officials did not comment on the status of Mr Trump’s controversial campaign pledge to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The president will finish his visit with what White House officials called a “historic” trip to the Vatican. Mr Trump has expressed interest several times in meeting with the Pope, and Vatican spokesman Greg Burke told AFP that they would "welcome" a request for an official audience.
The president previously announced that he would travel to Brussels, Belgium for a Nato meeting on 25 May. He also told Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni he would attend the G7 summit in Sicily, taking place the next day.
The White House had remained silent on Mr Trump’s additional travel plans until now.
Gov.. Cuomo signed the bill Friday at the Hotel Trades Council building in Midtown, accompanied by the state Labor Department head Roberta Reardon and state AFL-CIO president Mario Cilento
(KEVIN P. COUGHLIN/OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO/OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUO)
Gov. Cuomo signed new legislation Friday that allows full union dues to be deducted from state taxes.
As part of the state budget, Cuomo created a union dues deduction for New York taxpayers who itemize deductions at the state level equal to the amount currently disallowed at the federal level due to the 2% floor.
The deduction is expected to save 500,000 union workers $35 million annually or about $70 per taxpayer per year.
“At a time when unions are under attack on the national level, New York is fighting even harder to preserve union jobs and uplift the middle class,” Cuomo said.
(KEVIN P. COUGHLIN/OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO/OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUO)
Cuomo signed the law at the Hotel Trades Council building in Midtown, accompanied by the state Labor Department head Roberta Reardon and state AFL-CIO President Mario Cilento.
“At a time when unions are under attack on the national level, New York is fighting even harder to preserve union jobs and uplift the middle class,” Cuomo said.
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