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More than 100 students rallied at the state Capitol on Feb. 8, to ask state lawmakers for additional funds aimed at supporting college students with disabilities. Students from across New York first joined together at the well of The Legislative Office Building in Albany to organize before marching to the […]
On Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, state legislators joined student advocates outside the state Senate chamber to show support for a bill that would create public banks in the state of New York. “I am here with the best people money can’t buy,” said Sen. James Sanders Jr., D-Queens, who chairs […]
Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan recently joined community leaders and other local officials to announce plans for the former Livingston Par, which has been renamed Black Lives Matter Park. Included in the plans are a $600,000 investment for the Albany Boxing Gym facility and plans for a new community center for […]
State legislators finished approving the 2019 state spending plan in the early hours of Saturday morning, achieving an on-time budget ahead of the new fiscal year which began on Sunday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said “the budget hit the priorities that we had set out” despite a $4.4 billion deficit. “When […]
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that $491 million is being awarded to projects statewide to preserve and expand access to high quality health care. This announcement comes in the middle of an intense week in the U.S. Senate as Republicans attempt to get enough support to repeal and replace the Affordable […]
A statewide coalition comprised of more than 110 environmental groups launched a last-ditch effort to convince lawmakers to reject President Trump’s proposed EPA budget. . The “Save The EPA Campaign” cites President Trump’s proposed 31 percent EPA cut as its main concern, saying that such a cut would have a […]
Under the recently adopted budget, tax cuts, tax credits and investments in education are all apart of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s goal to revive the middle class and give millennials an incentive to invest their future in New York. “With this budget, New York is once again leading the nation […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeffrey Klein, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Friday announced an agreement on a $153.1 billion budget for fiscal year 2017-2018. State operating funds spending is $98.1 billion for the 2017-2018 fiscal year — an increase […]