The Albany Criminal Court issued a criminal summons charging Cuomo with a Class A misdemeanor.
With $750 million from the federal government, Albany asked New Yorkers in 2013 to decide how to protect their communities from future storms. Planning participants say their projects have stalled.
The moratorium expires in December. But New York hasn’t distributed a single dollar of the $70 million of federal water assistance.
Incarcerated people with disabilities detail a labyrinth of humiliations in prison.
There’s a growing trend of landlords changing locks and shutting off utilities to get tenants out without going to court, tenant organizers say.
Incarcerated New Yorkers pay some of the steepest rates for phone calls in the country, as high as $9.95 for a single 15-minute call.
A dispute between the prison agency and the independent prison monitoring organization has left lawyers and advocates wondering whether Gov. Hochul’s commitment to transparency will extend to state prisons.
Tens of thousands of undocumented workers could be left out. Advocates are pushing to add more funds.
“Staff at OTDA seem to be ignoring the plain meaning of the law,” said Senate Housing Committee Chair Brian Kavanagh.
Adrienne Harris has worked for over a dozen financial technology firms that Hochul would put her in charge of regulating.
If concrete production were a country, it would be the world’s third largest carbon emitter. New York legislators want to clean it up.
New York’s new leader has pledged to improve access to public records – but hasn’t yet committed to the policy reforms transparency experts say are needed.
The $115 million state contract for administering the program required a paper application. Without it, tenants who can’t access technology may be getting left behind.
Not a single prosecutor appeared to have been disciplined for on-the-job misconduct in 2019. Even the state prosecutors association supports reforms.
New York is seen as a model - but it also shows the challenges of green public-private partnerships
Renters broke decisively for India Walton in Buffalo’s June Democratic primary, favoring an affordable housing advocate with a tenant-centered housing platform over a developer-friendly incumbent.
A political moderate and former Congressperson and bank executive, Hochul stands to make history as New York’s first woman governor, but may face fierce challengers in next year’s election.
The structure of state government, with its centralized power and few ethical checks, invites scandal after scandal.
Farms in New York have used a form of legal arbitrage to shield their manure management practices from scrutiny.
The New York Court of Appeals participates in impeachment trials. Cuomo has appointed all seven members, including two of them in June