NY lawmakers push to have Lunar New Year
declared a public holiday
WPIX-TV [New York, NY],
by
Aliza Chasan
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
1/20/2023 9:31:00 AM
NEW YORK — As the day approaches, a number of New York lawmakers have pushed the state to recognize Lunar New Year as a public holiday. Assemblymember William Colton introduced a bill on the subject in the 2021-2022 legislative session. He and Assemblymember Grace Lee, who was elected in November of 2022, have pushed for the calendar change. Colton plans to reintroduce his bill in the next legislative session. He’s said declaring Lunar New Year as a public holiday will promote increased awareness of both Asian history and tradition. “This bill is personal to me as an Asian American and
Reply 1 - Posted by:
john56 1/20/2023 9:38:34 AM (No. 1383093)
You know, this might not be a bad idea. More holidays mean less time for government bureaucrats to muck stuff up. And I'm all for making those holidays on Monday. That means a lot of them will take off Friday and possibly the following Tuesday and make a long weekend of it.
As they used to say, no one's life, liberty or property are safe when the legislature is in session.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 1/20/2023 9:40:36 AM (No. 1383095)
First, trade in some other one. Then, make it an honor day that changes every year. Covers everybody eventually, doesn't add to paid time off,
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Lunar new year holiday? Lunacy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
spacer 1/20/2023 9:48:52 AM (No. 1383105)
They come to America and make it the crap hole they slithered out of.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rich323 1/20/2023 9:53:45 AM (No. 1383113)
So China has bought even more influence! Celebrate the Chinese New Year also known as Lunar New Year. They are working overtime to forge a one world government starting with Holidays!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
snakeoil 1/20/2023 9:59:15 AM (No. 1383120)
In many countries and some states Easter is an official holiday. I love it because it irritates atheists. January 1, Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year, etc are ridiculous. Nowhere on the Earth's orbit does it say start here. Some companies give you the standard holidays and your birthday. The only holiday I object to is Labor Day which isn't connected to anything important.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Tank 1/20/2023 10:47:59 AM (No. 1383174)
Is there a feast? If there's a feast, I'm in.
Moon Zappa unavailable for comment.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/20/2023 10:49:36 AM (No. 1383178)
next thing you'll see is a Stonehenge site erected on the grounds of City Hall Plaza to welcome the rising Sun on the first day of Summer
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MaxWedge 1/20/2023 11:00:26 AM (No. 1383185)
I'm all for Ground Hog Day. That's my birthday. :)
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
moebellini3 1/20/2023 11:10:02 AM (No. 1383198)
Yea, that's it, just add in another holiday. There's a reason our kids are uneducated. They're never in school. About 20 holidays along with 2 months off for summer recess, a week for Thanksgiving, a week between Christmas and New Years, a week for teachers convention and a week for spring break. Then you can always count on a week or two for a teachers strike because they are so overworked. Pathetic..
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 1/20/2023 11:52:19 AM (No. 1383252)
People who celebrate it will be called 'lunatics'.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 1/20/2023 11:52:25 AM (No. 1383253)
Fits perfectly. Lunatic New Year....the streets and corridors of power of NY are overflowing with lunatics.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lynngirl122 1/20/2023 12:29:14 PM (No. 1383301)
Declare it a holiday in your OWN country!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
cor-vet 1/20/2023 12:56:07 PM (No. 1383318)
Poster #10- We have all those and they add in a week for Mardi Gras, a full week for the local fair and then there's usually a few days because it 'might' snow. South Louisiana, you know!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
kono 1/20/2023 1:39:30 PM (No. 1383355)
I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords.
Snarky Simpsons references aside, it's fine to increase awareness of Asian history and culture. But not to adopt it in place of our own, nor to blend it with ours, unless that's part of a return to the "melting pot" vision of immigration.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
danu 1/20/2023 3:20:57 PM (No. 1383422)
we already have that #8--it's called manhattanhenge
-as the spectacular rays of the sun rise out of the river and reflect off of the
corridors of skyscrapers
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/20/2023 10:04:52 PM (No. 1383647)
New Yorkers do not need to look at the moon. Their minds are already in a state of befuddlement.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Faithfully 1/20/2023 10:13:15 PM (No. 1383649)
Oh nice. Who gets paid taxpayers money for this make work initiative? Some bodies kid, wife?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/21/2023 10:48:33 AM (No. 1384005)
It's a good thing these morons don't know Lucifer's Birthday, that would be the next Holiday!
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There's already been 2 holidays this month and now they want another. How long before Ground Hog's Day and Obama Day are paid days off too?