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Senate Democrats held a press conference Thursday urging Senate Republican Conference to get behind legislation to allow child sex abuse victims more time to take their abuser to court. Advocates and legislators, including Linda Rosenthal, D-Manhattan, sponsor of the Assembly Child Victims Act (A.5885-a) that passed by a telling bipartisan […]
The only openly LGBT member of the state Senate is praising Governor Andrew Cuomo’s decision to nominate Justice Paul Feinman to succeed the late Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam on the New York State Court of Appeals. If confirmed, Feinman would be the first openly LGBT judge to serve on the Court […]
Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan held a press conference Tuesday with the New York State Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin to announce a package of bills to address the urgent drug epidemic sweeping the state. The 14-bill package seeks to strengthen New York state law, increasing penalties for drug […]
Assemblyman David Weprin and Assemblywoman Carmen De La Rosa are hoping to restore two programs they say benefit prisoners, their families, and even New York state taxpayers. The Weprin and De La Rosa bills would re-establish seven-day-a-week visitation at medium security prisons and restore a program that transports families to […]
Okay, class, get out your pencils. Here’s a simple true or false test. Take it at your own risk. True or false: Donald Trump is a big fat liar. Answer: Absolutely true. He has been caught telling lies again and again. Now he is accusing ex-FBI chief James Comey of […]
Two lawmakers are pushing legislation that would require insurance companies to cover in vitro fertility treatments for all New Yorkers while expanding access to other procedures. Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas, D-Astoria, and Sen. Diane Savino, D-Staten Island, stood with families in the Capitol on Wednesday to call on their fellow lawmakers […]
Upholding the notion that New York is a progressive state, legislation has been written to remove gender labels from law enforcement and other first responder titles. In an effort to update antiquated and inaccurate titles, Sen. Betty Little, R-Queensbury, and Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon, D-Brooklyn, announced the introduction of gender […]
A recent incident at the Ossining School District has prompted a new bill that would ensure school districts are notified when if an employee is arrested for a sex offense. In May, a custodian working in at the Brookside Elementary School was convicted of two felonies and two misdemeanors, including […]