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 […]
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DOB launches new website to assist nonprofits
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 […]
Voters give governor, lawmakers lackluster grades on ethics reform efforts
By a better than two-to-one margin — 56 to 27 percent — New Yorkers say the ethics reform legislation passed in the recently completed legislative session will not lead to a reduction in corruption in state government, according to a new Siena College poll of New York state registered […]
NYSUT: Voters approve 99 percent of school budgets this week
Voters across the state approved 99 percent of school budgets Tuesday, according to a preliminary estimate by New York State United Teachers. “We are extremely pleased with the vote of confidence in our public schools by New Yorkers in every region of our state,” said NYSUT President Karen Magee. […]