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As Gov. Andrew Cuomo embarks on a three-day trip across New York state to deliver six regional State of the State addresses, Senate Majority leader John Flanagan has issued a statement outlining the Senate Republican Conference’s legislative goals for 2017. This year, Cuomo is forgoing the traditional Albany State […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced plans to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, Westchester County by April 2021 — 13 years ahead of the decommissioning schedule required by federal regulators. Cuomo said Monday that the 2,000 megawatt nuclear power plant, located 25 miles north of New York […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled his first proposal for the 2017 legislative agenda: making college tuition free at all SUNY and CUNY colleges for middle-class students. Under the proposal — which requires legislative approval — students whose families make less than $125,000 a year would qualify to attend college tuition-free […]
Around 11 p.m. at Siena College, a small Catholic college, students are getting ready for a night on the town. Soon, they’ll be tearing down the streets with hands pumping in the air, draining pitcher after pitcher, shot after shot at bar after bar, finishing up well into the wee […]
This year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo will be delivering his message to the state Legislature in a series of regional “State of the State” addresses delivered across New York. Cuomo is breaking from recent tradition of delivering a speech at the Capitol or Empire State Plaza on the first day […]
Senator Tony Avella said he plans to reintroduce legislation in January that would keep neighborhoods safe from swarms of student drivers. The lack of any official law or policy about where driving schools can teach their students has led to certain residential neighborhoods being overrun by excessive numbers of […]
A Queens assemblyman is pushing for the state’s public colleges to adopt policies that would protect undocumented students before president-elect Donald Trump takes office. But a western New York senator is warning SUNY administrators that such a “reckless” move could jeopardize federal aid for students in New York. Assemblyman […]
Governor, lawmakers taking steps to calm students and constituents On the same day Gov. Andrew Cuomo sent a letter to every college student in the state to calm their fears about post-election hate crimes, Vadim Imperioli was allegedly spray painting a swastika on a dorm bulletin board at SUNY […]