It’s too close to call. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, the Associated Press is reporting Democrat Scott Murphy holds a razor thin 81 vote margin over Republican Assemblyman Jim Tedisco in the race for the 20th Congressional District.
Neither candidate is claiming victory or defeat at this point and absentee ballots have yet to be [...]
A special election is being held today for the upstate congressional seat vacated by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
Democrat Scott Murphy is going up against Republican Jim Tedisco in the 20th Congressional District.
Tedisco is the State Assembly’s minority leader and has been a state legislator for 27 years.
Murphy is a businessman who has the support of Gillibrand [...]
The budget deal struck over the weekend in Albany restores money to New York’s Environmental Protection Fund, expands nickel deposits to include bottled water and eliminates a proposed freeze on some state property tax payments.
Environmental groups that were concerned the state’s fiscal crisis would slash programs and curb New York’s acquisition of open space were [...]
Democratic Assemblyman Adam Bradley declared his long-anticipated candidacy for mayor on the chilly, windblown steps of City Hall yesterday morning, entering a political battle that became vastly easier last week when the Republican who has held the job for 12 years pulled out of the race.
Mayor Joseph Delfino’s announcement that he would not run for [...]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the thousands of teaching jobs he threatened to cut are likely safe under the state budget approved in Albany this week.
The state’s plan increases aid to public schools by about $1.1 billion, and gets rid of the governor’s proposed $700 million education cut.
When Bloomberg presented his preliminary budget plan in January [...]
Governor David Paterson said today that tolls on the East and Harlem River bridges will not be part of any bailout plan for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but he is vowing to come up with a way to save New Yorkers from massive fare hikes and service cuts.
As lawmakers continue to work to pass the [...]
Legislative leaders reached an agreement late Saturday on a 2009-10 state budget that uses federal stimulus money to restore about $500 million in cuts Gov. David Paterson proposed in his December budget.
In the $131.8 billion budget, lawmakers reinstated funding for schools, municipalities, roads and bridges, workforce training and agriculture programs. But they also imposed higher [...]
The Albany agreement on a 2009-10 budget eliminated a proposal to allow the sale of wine in supermarkets and other stores, a measure intended to help close the mounting state deficit.
The move was applauded by independent liquor and wine store owners even as it was denounced by supporters of the proposal.
“We’re feeling very optimistic,” said [...]
Debate is expected to begin in Albany today on the $132 billion state budget hammered out over the weekend.
Bills have been delivered to lawmakers’ desks.
But, while the spending plan is due by Wednesday, approval is far from a sure thing given the Democrats’ slim majority in the New York State Senate.
Governor David Paterson and legislative [...]
An agreement reached by Gov. David A. Paterson and legislative leaders this week to give judges more flexibility to determine drug sentences would also allow hundreds of people currently in prison for nonviolent drug offenses to ask a judge to resentence them, the governor said Friday.
The proposal, which sweeps away much of what is left [...]
