Day: September 3, 2018

Welcome to the fall of TV shows you’ve already seen before.

A disappointing crop of new shows looks awfully familiar, mostly because they are. Peak TV has devolved into any number of spinoffs, sequels, remakes and reboots, leaving little room for original programming on networks and streaming services….

Look for the union label…on medical marijuana.

A new deal launching on Labor Day provides exclusive discounts on the drug from Vireo Health of New York to more than 2.5 million members and retirees of Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW.

“This program is designed to make our products more affordable and to educate…

Dan Patrick’s latest show is unlike anything he’s ever done before.

The veteran broadcaster and longtime radio voice of “The Dan Patrick Show” — who has covered Super Bowls and Olympics, anchored NBC’s “Football Night in America” and ESPN’s “SportsCenter” and emceed the game show “Sports Jeopardy!”…

Here’s a Labor Day quiz:

Most Americans support unions, but just over 10% are union members. What gives?

Business leaders claim that American workers don’t want or need unions anymore. But the Gallup poll reveals that Americans’ support for unions has been increasing — from 48% in 2009 to 62% today.

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Many obituaries have been written for labor. The anti-union Janus vs. AFSCME Supreme Court decision is already being followed by a dark money campaign to convince workers to quit their unions. In the private sector, employers evade the reach of workplace-based union contracts by off-shoring, sub-contracting…

Labor Day is meant to honor the contributions of American workers, not robots. So with more and more labor being automated — not just in factories but in retail, health care and pretty much everywhere — what does this day still mean?

A cynical answer might be shopping and sales. But in fact, there…

On this Labor Day, which most everyone has off for rest, recreation and especially travel, the 40,000 people who keep JFK, LaGuardia and Newark airports running are working, like they do every day.

And doing so without long-overdue raises they were promised by political muckety mucks.

This is a…

Congress granted no ifs, ands or buts: The massive 2010 Dodd-Frank bill that swept clean Wall Street created an independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and within it a student loan ombudsman.

That ombudsman, Seth Frotman, is now striding out the door after penning a letter that the leadership…

The following is an expanded version of the second item from my “Albany Insider” column from Monday’s print editions.

ALBANY —Gov. Cuomo faces more than just running with a candidate he doesn’t support if Jumaane Williams wins his upcoming Democratic lieutenant governor primary.

Assuming Cuomo…

Congress granted no ifs, ands or buts: The massive 2010 Dodd-Frank bill that swept clean Wall Street created an independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and within it a student loan ombudsman.

That ombudsman, Seth Frotman, is now striding out the door after penning a letter that the leadership…

ALBANY — Actress Cynthia Nixon has been routinely described as trying to become the state’s first lesbian governor.

But Nixon actually doesn’t self-identify as a lesbian. She considers herself queer, campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said.

Queer — one of the Qs in the LGBTQ movement, along with…

ALBANY — Attorney General wannabe and city Public Advocate Letitia James is taking heat for recently appearing at a Long Island church whose self-proclaimed “ex-gay” pastor has said God can save people from the “curse” of homosexuality.

James on Aug. 20 appeared with pastor and gospel singer Donnie…

One of our correspondents travels to and from the office via the Atlantic Ave.-Barclays Center subway station. Brooklyn’s busiest, it is home to 10 lines, along with commuter rail.

As our correspondent noticed on morning after evening after morning after evening after morning after evening, the…

If the late John Gotti’s long-jailed brother finds the 21st-century Mafia unrecognizable later this month, he knows where the blame lies.

Gene Gotti, behind bars since 1989 for running a multi-million dollar heroin distribution ring, is set for a Sept. 15 release from the Federal Correctional Institution…

ALBANY — State Republicans will look to take advantage of Cuomo’s recent comment that “America was never great” by offering bumperstickers highlighting the issue.

“Hey Cuomo, America is great”, the bumperstickers say.

“It’s something that we’ve clearly seen a lot of passion about and it’s a great…

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo warns that progressive legislation may not sail through the state Senate even if the Democrats win control in this fall’s elections.

“It will still be hard,” Cuomo said during a meeting last week with the Daily News Editorial Board. “Whoever is in the minority, it’s always…

Dems should embrace intellectuals

Manhattan: Things took a Trumpian turn during the second Democratic primary debate for attorney general when Public Advocate Letitia James appeared to repeatedly put down her progressive opponent Zephyr Teachout by calling her “professor.”

Teachout does indeed…

A pair of shootings in Brooklyn left one man dead and two others wounded over the span of an hour Sunday afternoon, cops said.

The shootings took place in Bedford-Stuyvesant, about two miles apart from each other. Cops have not determined if they’re linked.

At about 3 p.m., a gunman shot a 37-year-old…

A 15-year-old girl plunged five stories to her death during a party in a Tribeca apartment building late Sunday, police said.

The teen was attending a party at a building on Reade St. at W. Broadway at about 11 p.m. when she went out onto a fifth-floor fire escape and plummeted to the ground below,…

Chaos erupted when a man fired a gun into the air before the start of a concert by rapper Ice Cube Sunday night at the Del Mar Racetrack in California.

According to witnesses and concertgoers, the crowd was getting impatient entering the venue for the performance that was to follow the races.

A…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for September 3, 2018

We play well with others while the reflective Moon visits friendly Gemini; differences of opinion just don’t seem to matter as much. We’re more congenial now, even if we don’t agree with someone’s conclusion on an important subject….

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says she has “no intention of taking any action” regarding any possible use of federal funds to arm teachers or provide them with firearms training.

DeVos’ comments came Friday after a top official in her department, asked about arming teachers, said…

There are definite advantages for Sloane Stephens as an American star defending her title at the U.S. Open.

Raucous cheers on every winning shot. Collective groans on every miss. Shouts of encouragement ringing through Arthur Ashe Stadium whenever her level of tennis drops just a bit.

Stephens…

A band of marauding motorcyclists and ATV riders knocked a bicyclist off his bike in Queens, fatally injuring him, then pulled a similar stunt on another cyclist minutes later, cops said Sunday.

Eucario Xelo, 65, of Brooklyn, was riding his bike west on Seneca Ave. in Ridgewood, toward the intersection…

A 200-year-old museum in Rio de Janeiro is being engulfed by flames.

Firefighters were working late Sunday to put out a large blaze at the esteemed National Museum in northern Rio. It wasn’t immediately clear how the fire began.

News portal G1, citing the museum, reported that nobody was injured…