From NBC : A Queens bar had its liquor license suspended after authorities allegedly uncovered prostitution, narcotics, illicit gambling ...

From New York Sh*tty : Last night the Mister and I decided to have dinner in Long Island City. Since the weather was (somewhat) amenable w...

From the Daily News : Special interests spent $210.5 million lobbying New York State and local governments in 2013, the state ethics commi...

From the NY Times : In its last scheduled legislative session of the year, the New York City Council passed major health and environmental...

From the Daily News : Opening a new front in the city’s war on smoking, the New York City Council voted Wednesday to hike the legal age fo...

From Queens Courier : The investigation of an illegal cigarette trafficking operation led to the arrest of a Flushing family that was alle...

From the NY Post : A Queens mother and her son were arrested with 677 cartons of illegal Asian cigarettes and $132,000 in cash, authoritie...

So the City Council and State Legislature refuse to ban shisha, since it's " cultural " and benefits a certain demographic. I...

From Bayside Patch : A Bayside man was among five Queens residents arrested Friday in an illegal untaxed cigarettes trafficking bust, the Na...

From the Queens Courier : A city investigation pinned a previously problematic deli grocery store in Briarwood with only one violation after...

From the NY Post : Legislation is being introduced in the state Senate that would bar welfare recipients from using their public-assistance ...

From Fox 5/AP : The U.S. Department of Agriculture is upgrading technology used to combat a swindle of the nation's $64.7 billion food s...

From the NY Post : The Empire State ranked 50th in George Mason University's biannual "Freedom in the States" rankings. "...

From the NY Post : The underground tobacco market is spreading like a fast-growing cancer in the wake of tax hikes that make New York cigare...

From the Daily News : Two cops from Brooklyn's embattled 81st Precinct were charged Friday with making a trumped-up arrest - in a sting ...

From the NY Post : Stomped-out cigarette butts -- the blight of many a Big Apple sidewalk -- would be collected and recycled as part of a st...

Deadbeat butt-head owes 'red' state NY $19M By FREDRIC U. DICKER and MAGGIE HABERMAN, NY Post The No. 1 New York state tax deadbeat ...

From NY Magazine : Mayor Bloomberg, along with Representative Peter King, wrote an August 4, 2008, editorial arguing that cigarette sales on...