Tag: Government

Major Changes to the Sale of Alcoholic Beverages in New York State Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: What Business Owners Need to Know

In times of crisis, there are no easy solutions.  However, the New York State Liquor Authority (“NYSLA”) has issued a new set of emergency guidelines for restaurants and bars effected by the Covid-19 pandemic to ease the burden on their businesses by: Permitting restaurants, bars and other food service businesses to continue to operate on […]

Written by on April 2020

Understanding the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) creates two ways to keep workers paid during the crisis: providing direct help to workers who lose their jobs and extending loans to businesses to help them maintain pay and benefits. Employee Side Benefits The CARES Act will help displaced workers make ends meet […]

Written by on April 2020

The Politics of Music: Part Two

The pre-Beatles music of the time however that was not neutral, though was folk music, or more accurately, “contemporary folk music”. This unquestionably was “message music” with an overt tilt to the left. Having its genesis in the Great-Depression and Dust Bowl – era with Woodie Guthrie, Lead Belly and Pete Seeger, by the late […]

Written by on April 2020

The Politics of Music: Part One

As a lover of virtually all music and as a predominantly conservative person politically, I have always been both fascinated and often aggravated by the relationship of popular music to politics and the changes in the relationship between the two over the decades. More specifically, during that time, I have also found myself frequently put […]

Written by on March 2020