Hochul's budget con(fusion), fix higher ed, save civilization and...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Maybe she realizes that a growing share of state tax revenue is coming "from more volatile earnings," so is reluctant "to let another $3 billion slide into the state's spending baseline."
45% : "Conservative: Time's Desperate Trump Ploy"In a desperate push for relevancy, Time magazine has chosen Donald Trump as its Person of the Year for 2024," notes USA Today's Nicole Russell.
42% : "He came into office promising transparency, candor, competence, depoliticization, and systemic reform.
37% : "Campus beat: Fix Higher Ed, Save Civilization"The decay of higher education threatens both the civic health and long-term economic prospects of Western liberal civilisation," but as young people turn to alternative forms of education and the Trump team takes power, "it seems inevitable that universities will need to change or shrink," observes Joel Kotkin at Spiked.
33% : Under Trump, "the disruption" of higher education "is likely to continue," and though "the educrats will fight like mad dogs" against reform, "a change of direction is all too necessary" to "rescue our kids and our civilisation.
19% : "Time is trying to capitalize on Trump," but while this cover paints him "as stoic and powerful," the mag "also has often portrayed him negatively," including "as a melting orange blob."

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