Covering the politics, policies and people of New York State government.
Legislators from both parties joined neonatal doctors and advocates to call for Medicaid funding of donor breast milk for premature infants to be included in the final enacted budget. The bill, (A.6481/ S.4526) sponsored by Senate Health committee chair Kemp Hannon, R- Garden City, and Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, D-Elmont, […]
New York state has made significant strides in recent years to improve our business climate. From voluntary adherence to a two-percent spending cap, to the enactment of the tremendously successful property tax cap, lawmakers and the governor have shown a recognition that we need to make significant changes to […]
Legislative column by Assemblyman Andrew Garbarino, R-Sayville Gov. Cuomo has proposed a $152.3 billion state budget, a spending plan that I believe needs improvement. Considering that the state is funded by the hard-earned dollars of New York residents, the state needs to be better stewards of these funds. More must […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined legislators and hundreds of direct care advocates, workers, and the patients they care for to announce the inclusion of $55 million in the state budget to provide wage increases for professionals caring for New York’s developmentally disabled. Direct care workers and direct support professionals help […]
A group of lawmakers is asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo to re-think his plan to cut visitation days at maximum security prisons as a cost-saving measure. Included in Cuomo’s 2017 budget proposal is a plan to cut visitation days by more than half at some prisons, thus eliminating the need […]
On Tuesday evening at the state Capitol, Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled the proposed 2017-2018 Executive Budget, which for the seventh consecutive year, would hold spending growth below 2 percent. Highlights of the proposed budget, which must be adopted by March 31, include: State Operating Funds spending is $98.06 billion […]
A pro-business, anti-tax group comprised of 80 businesses and trade organization has endorsed more than 30 candidates — both incumbents and challengers —for the state Senate and Assembly. Unshackle Upstate, through its political action committee UPAC, announced its slate of 2016 legislative endorsements. The bi-partisan list is comprised of […]
The Division of the Budget is launching a new website — www.ny.gov/nonprofits — designed to improve the working relationship between the state and those not-for-profits that provide services to New Yorkers. The website will serve as New York’s source for information impacting the nonprofit sector and as a portal […]