As School Funding Runs Dry, Riverhead Residents Call to Shut Down Economic Development Org
A growing local faction is demanding that the IDA be dissolved.
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“I don’t blame businesses for wanting to get as big of a profit as they possibly can, but that shouldn’t be the job of a town.”
“This is uniting the community more than any other event in the past decade that I can remember.”
In New York, unemployment recipients can be found guilty of fraud even if they thought their information was true. The state demands repayment at the highest rate in the country.
New York’s Equal Rights Amendment would enshrine the right to abortion in the state. A judge threw it off the ballot for the fall, but an appeal is expected.
While New York City’s public campaign finance system endures scandals, the state won’t audit the majority of campaigns.
It’s the first step New York has taken to address its housing shortage in years — but tenant groups are fuming and real estate wants more.
A version of good cause eviction and new hate crimes are in; new taxes on the wealthy and education cuts are out. Here’s where things landed in this year’s budget.
The Assembly rejected legislation that would have sped up New York’s transition away from gas.