City Council Overrides Mayoral Veto, Passes Paid Sick Time Law
Under the new law, employees of businesses with 20 or more workers would get up to five paid sick days a year beginning in April 2014
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Under the new law, employees of businesses with 20 or more workers would get up to five paid sick days a year beginning in April 2014
Congress is on the cusp of approving historic immigration legislation offering citizenship to millions in the U.S. illegally and spending billions of dollars to secure the border.
It may soon get more expensive to finance your college education. Congress has another battle coming to a head and if lawmakers don't make a deal by Friday, interest rates will jump in millions of student loans.
On the steps of the steps of the Statehouse in Trenton, Garden State Equality's Troy Stevenson said Thursday that the time is now for gay marriage in New Jersey.
Federal regulators are accusing former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine of failing to properly manage MF Global, which misused customer funds before its 2011 collapse.
Early Thursday morning the New York City Council voted on and passed two bills that will potentially impact how the NYPD operates on a day-to-day basis.
Crowds rallied in the West Village Wednesday, celebrating the Supreme Court's decision Wednesday striking down a provision of a federal law that denied federal benefits to gay married couples.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday that he would veto a same-sex marriage bill again.
The Supreme Court has issued a pair of significant but incomplete victories for supporters of gay marriage.
Lawmakers in New Jersey have advanced a bill that would dramatically increase fines for drivers who fail to move over from the left or center lanes.
Michael Bloomberg, the mayor known in some circles as "El Bloombito" is now being called "Ticket Me Elmo" by a bevy of small business owners crushed by the profusion of tickets being handed out by Department of Consumer Affairs inspectors, who told CBS 2 that they have to meet quotes – or else.
Queens residents talked about the issues they want to ask mayoral candidates Tuesday evening, in the fourth in a series of town hall meetings.
The social media-savvy mayor posted a link to the 30-second video titled "Run" to Twitter on Tuesday evening.
Changes in New York election law will no longer have to be pre-cleared by the Department of Justice. That's the effect of the high court's ruling that struck down a part of the Voting Rights Act that since 1965 has protected minority voters.
New York City Public Advocate and mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio has called for the richest New Yorkers to pay a little more in taxes.
