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The just concluded 2012 legislative session brought mixed results for Governor Cuomo, who is in his second year as governor. While Cuomo and lawmakers could claim credit for a calm and functional end to the session, the Governor had to...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency is proposing to pay for new flood-control gates in the New York State Canal System to prevent the kind of damage caused by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee.
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There are a number of primary elections on Tuesday federal posts, including for Congress and the US Senate, and turn out is expected to be very low.
It’s the first time in around 40 years that New York has held June primaries. The...
The state legislature ended its session in an orderly fashion for the first time in decades, but the lack of last minute negotiations means that some issues were left unresolved, and it’s likely that lawmakers will be back at the Capitol...
There was a little bit of drama in an otherwise mundane end to the legislative session, when Senate Republicans agreed in the final hours to approve Governor Cuomo’s proposal on how to make teacher evaluations public.
Senate Republicans, on...
The legislative session that’s concluding in Albany seems to be more about what’s not getting done that what is getting accomplished. As Karen DeWitt reports, agreements were not reached on several key issues.
Governor Andrew Cuomo at...
