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U.S Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are urging the U.S. Army to base a new training unit at Fort Drum, citing the infrastructure, space and talent there to accommodate the new brigade. Schumer and Gillibrand were joined by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Willsboro, in writing a letter to the Secretary […]
Okay, students, grab your blue books. I’ve been trying my best to teach you about state government but still you resist! This is a true or false quiz – no cheating! T or F: Andrew Cuomo’s brother’s name is Joe. T or F: If the Supreme Court forbids gerrymandering, the […]
Congressman Paul Tonko, state legislators and environmental groups are warning New Yorkers of potential health dangers they could face if proposed cuts to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency budget are implemented. The Trump administration’s proposed allocation of $5.4 billion for the EPA would slash funding to the agency by 23 […]
One of Gov Andrew Cuomo’s 30-day budget amendments would close a loophole in state law that currently allows some sex offenders to live near kindergarten and pre-K schools in New York state. The 30-day budget amendment would prohibit level two and level three sex offenders, whose victims were under the […]
Chief Judge Janet DiFiore recently announced the appointment of Hon. Karen K. Peters as Chair of New York’s Permanent Commission on Justice for Children, formed in 1988 to improve the life chances of justice-involved children and adolescents. “Judge Peters is a trailblazer in New York’s legal community whose broad experience, […]
The 1993 Winter/Spring Legislative Gazette internship started off with a bang. My first night in Albany, as my roommate and I tried to return home from our first grocery shopping trip, what was rain when we left our basement apartment, turned to ice. Although we tried to make our way […]
Sometime during the fall of 1981, my junior year at SUNY New Paltz, I had a meeting with Professor Glenn Doty. I really wanted to participate in The Legislative Gazette program but he told me I wasn’t ready, probably because I wasn’t doing so great in his class and my […]
I interned for The Legislative Gazette in 1988. Ten other college students joined me. Nothing prepared me for this experience. I don’t want to speak for the others, but they would probably say the same thing. College journalism was one thing — the state Capitol was another. Glenn Doty was […]