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Senator Cathy Young announced this week her plans to resign her seat in the state Senate effective March 10th. Young will be taking a position at Cornell University where she will become executive director of the Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture at Cornell’s AgriTech in Geneva. Young said: “It was a very challenging decision to […]

Paul A. Karas, acting commissioner of the Department of Transportation, has submitted a letter of resignation to the Governor. He indicated that he would soon be stepping down from his role as acting commissioner and identified his desire to return to Illinois to be with his wife full-time, who has spent most of her time there pursuing […]

Jerry Kassar won a special election to as Chair of the state Conservative Party. The position became open as long time chair of the party, Mike Long, resigned unexpectedly earlier this year. Kassar beat out Ralph Lorigo of Erie County to win the post. The position is up for election for a full term in 2020 where […]

City & State NY’s weekly Winners & Losers here. City & State NY’s New York City’s Power 100. Newsday Opinion Piece: False promises about legalized weed. The budget’s Medicaid cuts could sink ambulance services in New York. New bill to provide undocumented immigrants health care coverage introduced in Senate and Assembly. Listen to Cuomo on Chartock here. USA Today suggests new lawsuits could push NY Diocese into bankruptcy. […]

A Joint hearing of the Senate Banks and Consumer Protection Committee will hold a hearing on the proposed Student Loan Consumer Assistance Program (SLCAP) on March 4. The Board of Regents will hold its next meeting March 11-12. PSC will hold its next meeting on March 14th. JCOPE will hold its next meeting on March 26th

This week, the Governor unveiled his 2019 Women’s Justice Agenda with help from Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, the Lieutenant Governor Hochul, and actress Julianne Moore. The plan is focused on three main areas; reproductive justice, social justice, and economic justice. Reproductive Justice Enshrine the Reproductive Health Act in the state constitution Improve Access to In-Vitro Fertilization and […]

The Governor signed two bills aimed at reducing the number of petition signatures required to qualify for the ballot this week. The first bill reduces, temporarily, the required number of petition signatures by 25 percent for candidates in this election cycle. The need for this measure stems from the passage and signing of election reform bills earlier […]

Legislators are calling for a measure that would ban economic development deals that grant company specific subsidies or incentives, similar to the Amazon deal that was scuttled last week. Lawmakers like Senator Gianaris and Senator Salazar characterize such arrangements as corporate welfare and have introduced a bill to end such practices. The bill would create an interstate […]

New York joined a coalition of 16 states to file a federal lawsuit to prevent President Trump from building a border wall, bypassing congressional funding, through the declaration of a national emergency. The suit was filed in California’s Northern District, based in San Francisco, which has previously ruled against the President. The suit argues that the President […]

The State Board of Elections Enforcement Counsel, Risa Sugarman, is seeking $8.6 million in penalties and fines from senators, campaign staff, and party officials of the NYS Senate former Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) and the Independence Party in connection with the entities joint campaign finance practices. The partnership between the two entities allowed the IDC to maintain […]