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Legislative Gazette file photo The New York State Court of Appeals On November 10th, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the legislation S.52A/A.5991A into law that would protect New Yorkers’ First Amendment rights from strategic lawsuits aimed at intimidating critics, journalists, or activists. In a SLAPP lawsuit, an acronym for a […]
Sen. Jen Metzger on Tuesday conceded the race for the 42nd Sate Senate District following a prolonged count of mail-in ballots in the Hudson Valey and Catskills. Three weeks after Election Day, most of the approximately 30,000 absentee and affidavit ballots have been counted. Metzger, a first-term Democrat, picked up […]
Live event spaces are still under heavy regulations eight months after the initial lockdown in New York state as a result of COVID-19 guidelines issued by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with lockdowns likely to become even more restrictive if coronavirus cases continue to spike this winter. As U.S. Sen Kirsten Gillibrand […]
As more absentee and mail-in ballots are counted across New York state, many close races are being called. Senator Anna Kaplan, D-Great Neck, will continue her service as State Senator for New York’s Seventh Senate District after Republican challenger Dave Franklin conceded the election. “This afternoon I received a call […]
More than 85 organizations and hundreds of individuals have signed on to a letter asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill that would designate many single-stall bathrooms in New York as gender-neutral. The bill (S.6479-a/A.5240-a) is modeled after California’s law and would require “all publicly accessible bathrooms, including those […]
I have interviewed Bernie Sanders many times. Those opportunities mostly came when he was a member of Congress but when he became a Senator, he moved uptown and except for a few opportunities, he didn’t need me and the public radio audience. He had the national media begging for interviews. […]
Seven Northeast governors announced Wednesday they are encouraging residential colleges and universities in their respective states to provide testing for all students who will be traveling home for Thanksgiving “to the maximum extent possible” before they leave campus next week. Any student who tests positive will be encouraged to isolate […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is concerned about a potential spike in positive COVID-19 cases after Thanksgiving, pointing to human nature and the desire to gather with friends and family for the holidays. New regulations took effect last Friday, November 15, that limit the size of gatherings in private homes to 10 […]
