City & State New York3d
Heastie warns state may need to raise taxes to fund MTA
The Assembly speaker said the state needs to figure out new sources of revenue to fund mass transit, especially given the ...
New York lawmakers get on board with Gov. Hochul’s ‘bell to bell’ school phone ban
The Senate had previously shown some slight disagreement with the Governor’s plan over whether schools should have some ...
Stop the spiel — no more dealing on Albany pay
The GOP should stop trying to void a $35,000 limit on outside income, a reasonable sum for the nation's highest-paid state ...
Georgia Recorder1d
Georgia Senate offers to increase governor’s pay to $250K, forging tie for tops in the country
Georgia Senate advanced a measure to increase salaries of governor, attorney general, House and Senate leaders and other ...
The Nation on MSN3d
One of These Progressives Could Be New York’s Next Mayor
On Saturday, seven mayoral candidates made their case to the Working Families Party and The Nation magazine in advance of the ...
Gothamist3d
Gov. Hochul, top NY lawmakers demand 'fair share' from feds to pay for MTA repairs
The lawmakers sent a letter to President Trump and other top Republicans, arguing the MTA deserves more money from the ...
Masking tensions in Albany
THE MASK DEBATE: Gov. Kathy Hochul’s eleventh-hour request for a mask crackdown in the state budget has ripped apart ...
Troy Record5dOpinion
READER’S VIEW: Walsh’s status report on state budget
New York’s state budget deadline is fast approaching on April 1. As we near the final stretch, we’ve moved past executive ...
The New York Times2d
G.O.P.’s Push to Cut Federal Spending Places New York Budget in Limbo
She wondered: Would that endanger her expansion of free school lunches in New York? What would it mean ... Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and the Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie, do not account for ...
Democrats divided on pretrial discovery as state budget talks stall
Lawmakers are now set to consider a compromise proposal that Hochul pitched to the legislative leaders of each chamber ...
New York Post3d
Kathy Hochul, lawmakers steering New York into a fiscal train wreck
Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers are about to ram through one of the most reckless spending plans in New York history ... the Republicans,” puffs Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, “we would ...