The Republican-led Senate today passed legislation to repeal the notification provisions of the Wage Theft Prevention Act. Gannett’s Albany Bureau reported yesterday about the repeal effort. The act requires every private employer to provide workers a document verifying their salaries and basic information each year. “Other than costing businesses to… Read More →
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said today that he supports hydrofracking, so long as its outside the New York City watershed. “We in New York City have been opposed to fracking in the watershed and along the conduits that get the water from the watershed down to the city,”... Read More →
The Senate Republicans’ proposed congressional map puts Democratic Reps. Gary Ackerman and Carolyn McCarthy in the same district covering parts of Long Island and Queens, but doesn’t pit any other running incumbents against one another, Sen. Michael Nozzolio confirmed today. The Senate GOP’s plan would also carve up retiring Rep…. Read More →
Mayors and county executive across New York warned Wednesday that local governments face a dire fiscal picture if the state doesn’t lower growing pension costs. Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks said local governments could face bankruptcy without pension reform. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said more city money goes… Read More →
Gov. Andrew Cuomo today released four more months of his public schedule—September 2011 through December 2011—giving a glimpse of who he is meeting with behind closed doors. In a nutshell, it appears to mainly show that he met a lot with his top aides. The schedules have been criticized for… Read More →
Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo to keep pushing for a 401k-type option for new public workers in his pension reforms, saying it is an option that public employees should have. “I think the governor was right to include that in the package to give workers a… Read More →
Updated throughout. The majority parties in the Senate and Assembly have both proposed to eliminate the district of retiring Rep. Maurice Hinchey, but don’t agree on where to cut a second seat. Assembly Democrats and Senate Republicans will file separate plans today for carving the state into 27 congressional districts…. Read More →
Mayors and county executives this afternoon are planning a news conference to back Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pension reforms, saying that the cost of pensions are crippling their budgets. Led by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the group, New York Leaders for Pension Reform, includes the county executives from Westchester,... Read More →
At a packed Red Room news conference today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that all 62 district attorneys in New York, as well as all 58 county sheriffs and more than 400 police chiefs are endorsing his plan to expand the state’s DNA databank Cuomo’s proposal, which passed the state Senate… Read More →
A spokesman for the Assembly Democratic majority said this morning that Senate Republicans are proposing to eliminate a pair of Congressional districts currently held by Democrats, which has become a major sticking point in negotiating new maps. Michael Whyland, the spokesman, said the Senate GOP is trying to preserve Rep…. Read More →