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This week, the Governor announced another round of administration appointments. Those appointments are as follows, biographies can be found here: Marie Therese Dominguez, Commissioner of the Department of Transportation David Yassky, Director of State Policy Madhuri Kommareddi, Director of Workforce Development Molly Marcy, Director of Legislative Affairs for Agency Operations Niall O’Hegarty, Deputy Secretary of Financial Services Eric Galarneau, General Counsel of the Division […]

Governor Cuomo announced 14 programs that provide at-risk youth with alternatives to gang involvement will receive $5.5 million in funding for workforce and educational development programs across the state through the Workforce Development Demonstration Project. Youth who are significantly behind in basic skills will receive help in obtaining their high school diploma, state equivalency credential or will be engaged […]

This week the Senate began consideration on rent control and tenant protection laws with the first of four scheduled public hearings. The first hearing was held in Syracuse, with three others scheduled for different parts of the state. The Assembly has already begun their own hearings on the matter. The current rent regulations are expiring in June. […]

Longtime aide and advisor to Governor Cuomo, Jim Malatras, was appointed President of Empire State College during this week’s SUNY Board of Trustees meeting. Mr. Malatras has previously served as Director of State Operations for Governor Cuomo and as Vice Chancellor for Policy and Chief of Staff at SUNY. He also served as Executive Director of the […]

City & State NY’s weekly Winners & Losers here. Buffalo News: mobile sports betting bill gets a public hearing. Zack Fink: critical pipeline deadline coming next week for Cuomo/DEC. Court of Appeals rules in Public Service Commission’s favor over ESCOs. Chartock interviews Senator Julia Salazar here. Tech start-up NexGen takes over state built factory in Dewitt.

The Assembly Committee on Housing will hold public hearings on rent regulations on May 10th. The Assembly Committee on Education will hold a public hearing on specialized high schools on May 10th. Public Service Commission will hold its next meeting on May 16. The Senate Committee on Housing will hold public hearings on rent control and tenant protections on May 16th, May 22nd, […]

This week, Governor Cuomo launched the ninth round of Regional Economic Development Council Initiative which will officially kick off the 2019 competition for more than $750 million in state resources. The Consolidated Funding Application will open to applicants on May 1, enabling businesses, municipalities, not-for-profits and the public to begin applying for assistance from a variety of […]

Governor Cuomo announced this week that ON Semiconductor will expand their operations in New York by purchasing and preserving the existing GLOBALFOUNDRIES Fab 10 manufacturing facility in East Fishkill, NY. ON Semiconductor will purchase the 300mm chip fab plant for $430 million, $100 million to be paid initially and the rest in three years upon taking full […]

Attorney General Letitia James announced an investigation into Facebook’s unauthorized collection of 1.5 million Facebook users’ email contact databases. While Facebook contends that the contacts were obtained directly through their email verification process, the Attorney General is looking into reports that Facebook collected password information for those email accounts and uploaded Facebook user’s contacts to use for […]

The Comptroller announced in a release that the fiscal year 2018-2019 tax receipts show that despite a $3.7 billion dollar decline in overall receipts, the month of March outpaced projections by $811.7 million. According to the state cash report the $7.2 billion General Fund balance at the end of March was $1.7 billion higher than initially anticipated and $660.7 […]