brendan mulvaney's parents

teach their son comparative religion,  ny state  constitutional law,  the words of andrew cuomo's leader pope francis and other lessons that they may derive from

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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.

additionally the discuss the wandering dago food truck with their son and remind him that time and youth will not always be on his side

OPINION

EDITORIAL

Cuomo takes a stand in the lemonade 

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Gov. Cuomo is playing the hero after he saved 7-year-old Brendan Mulvaney’s lemonade stand — from his own Department of Health.

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Cuomo: Crackdown on kid's lemonade stand 'ridiculous'

Over the weekend, DOH officials shuttered Mulvaney’s stand, eventually ordering him to pay $30 for a permit to sell powder-mix lemonade off his family’s back porch — because vendors at the nearby Saratoga County Fair were whining that his 75-cent drinks competed with their $7 charge.

Cuomo took action after The Post put this bureaucratic overreach on Page One. First, he called the move “ridiculous,” then promised a swift investigation, even offering to pay for Mulvaney’s permit out of his own pocket if the DOH wouldn’t budge.

As if any state agency would dare defy this governor. In fact, the DOH quickly backed off, agreeing that kids don’t need permits to sell lemonade.

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No word yet on whether any DOH official has suffered even a tongue-lashing for the idiotic initial ruling. And let’s all cross our fingers and hope Cuomo doesn’t decide that Brendan should get a few million in Andy Land “economic-development” cash to build a massive “job-creating” drinks operation.