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Kathy Hochul and the legislators are closing in on a final state budget. As they settle their differences, we’ll keep you up to date on the latest.
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“It’s done. It’s not happening,” an Assembly source told New York Focus. Lawmakers are poised to reject measures to boost housing supply and protect renters.
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The confirmations of Rowan Wilson and Caitlin Halligan may reverse the Court of Appeals’ rightward trend.
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Democratic Assembly leaders refused to entertain the governor’s primary tactic to achieve housing growth and affordability.
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New York law requires utilities to build out gas infrastructure at customers’ expense. The Senate wants to close the spigot.
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Private attorney Caitlin Halligan helped let Chevron off the hook for billions of dollars it owed Ecuadorians over the company’s pollution of the Amazon.
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The confluence of rising commissary prices, stagnant wages, and a package ban are making basic items inaccessible.
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As the governor negotiates the state budget with a legislature that rejected her last chief judge pick, she has selected a sitting liberal to lead the Court of Appeals.
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A new legal challenge takes aim at the New York prison department for locking hundreds of people up in solitary over offenses that should be exempt.
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Comptroller Brad Lander is scrutinizing the climate impacts of private equity investments — an area his counterpart in Albany has yet to address.
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As Westchester Democrats weigh whether to endorse the former Republican, the party chair calls his critics a “lynch mob.”
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Last-minute legislation would transform New York’s climate law, allowing significantly higher emissions over the next decade.
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With budget talks at a stalemate, Hochul offered the legislature new draft language on bail. It would accomplish largely the same result as her previous plan: a dramatic expansion in judges’ ability to set bail.
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The governor buried policies in her budget proposal that would give police and prosecutors more leverage over people with opioid addictions.
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In 2020, New York became the first state to ban biometric technology from schools. But administrators are still seeking “face analytics” tools and other gray-area tech — with scant guidance from the state.
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Deceptive Facebook ads, hundreds of thousands of mailers to customers, six-figure lobbying campaigns — here’s how fossil fuel companies are fighting to keep electrification at bay.
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Hochul has a month to nominate one of the seven candidates to be New York’s next chief judge, after the state Senate rejected her first pick last month.
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Mayors said they aren’t interested in state grants to expand housing. “You can’t dig a hole in the ground for that kind of money,” one told New York Focus.
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The legislature signed on to Hochul’s goal of 800,000 new homes. But they aren’t confident their plan can get there.
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We added up the governor and the legislature’s joint priorities and broke down their major divisions. The splits will define the year’s big legislative battles.