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Tensions between Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature are intensifying over a proposal to change the state’s criminal justice laws, with the date for finalizing the state budget just over a week away.
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State Senator Sean Ryan is urging his peers to restore 20 million dollars for library construction, which was cut by Governor Hochul in her budget proposal unveiled last week. Last year, the state provided 34 million dollars for projects – this year’s spending proposal provides only 14 million.
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The state budget proposal unveiled Tuesday morning by Gov. Kathy Hochul includes a multi-year investment aimed at rebuilding and retaining the healthcare workforce. How the state plans to carry out one of the provisions is raising early concern.
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The fund is meant to help undocumented immigrants who lost work during the pandemic but did not qualify for unemployment and federal stimulus checks.
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Progressive Democrats in the New York State Legislature took a victory lap, after passing a budget that achieves many of the groups’ long-term goals,…
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Broadband internet service will soon be available to low-income New Yorkers for as little as $15 per month with an option to pay a few more dollars for…
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The new state budget puts a lot more money into repairing New York’s tattered roads and bridges and creates a new program to repair city streets and fill…
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Six days after it was due, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York State’s legislative leaders announced a final agreement on a $212 billion budget deal. It…
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New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said Tuesday that she’s determined to steer the Senate through budget negotiations with Gov.…
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As New York State lawmakers finished up the state budget Thursday, two days after the deadline, one area of contention was making changes to the state’s…