I’ll be brief: Today is my last day with the Times Union. On Monday I am joining the public affairs team at Gramercy Communications, where I will continue to work on a wide range of issues that...
https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/279971/to-readers-thank-you-and-farewell/
My colleague Bethany Bump looks at how education officials and advocates are feeling about Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive budget proposal. Spoiler: Not everyone is thrilled. From Bump: New York ...
Attention hotel mini-bar aficionados: Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive budget has good news for you. Cuomo wants to expand access to room service and mini-bars to hotels that don’t have full s...
A cadre of Democratic state lawmakers are pushing for legislation that would allow a judge to issue an “extreme risk protection order” in some cases that would restrict the purchase and posse...
For those who still haven’t made it all the way through Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget briefing book (and if you haven’t gotten through that, we assume you haven’t finished reading the bills)...
https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/279912/still-digesting-cuomos-budget-plan-click-here/
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-Bronx, said Tuesday that amid changes to the federal tax code, “we need to explore” changing the state tax structure to move away from using a state income ta...
Assemblyman Charles Barron, D-Brooklyn, interrupted Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive budget address on Tuesday, yelling at the governor regarding the Campaign for Fiscal Equity school funding issu...
State Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, who last week was accused by a former staff member of forcibly kissing her, reiterated on Tuesday that he believes he will be vin...
Can the Senate Republican Majority support about $1 billion in revenue raising actions in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal? “No,” Majority Leader John Flanagan, R-Long Island, told repor...
How is your local school district faring in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed state budget? The chart below from the state Division of Budget has the details on funding for the 2018-19 school year c...