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Interest groups, businesses and issue advocates spent $121.2 million on lobbying efforts during the first half of 2017, according to a report by The Joint Commission on Public Ethics. This represents an increase of about $1 million — or about 1 percent — from lobbying expenditures during the same time […]
The Government Law Center at Albany Law School and The Rockefeller Institute for Government have released a list of possible revisions to the state Constitution if New York voters decide they want to hold a constitutional convention. The 106-point list was compiled by Scott Fein, an environmental lawyer from Albany, […]
The amount of money spent on lobbying state lawmakers dropped nearly 10 percent between the 2015 and 2016 legislative sessions, according to the state ethics officials. In the session immediately following the convictions of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, clients of lobbyists spent $120.2 […]