A $1,700 Bills suite tab was paid with campaign funds, bipartisan support for clean water funding, and New York’s top court upheld a man’s conviction despite his negligent lawyer.

Jan 13, 2025 · The Reporters’ Notebook features bite-sized stories and updates from New York Focus reporters on the topics they cover. It’s our way of keeping readers updated about the subjects they care about between the time it takes to publish our longer, more in-depth articles.

Jan 15, 2025 · But the bigger news was what Hochul didn’t include: a plan to move ahead this year with cap and invest, the flagship climate funding program she has promised for the last two years.Instead, in the briefing book accompanying her speech, Hochul appeared to further delay the program, once again calling into question New York’s ability to deliver on its climate law.

6 days ago · After Trump took office the first time in 2017, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order prohibiting state officials from asking about or disclosing an individual’s immigration status, except in limited circumstances. Hochul reissued the order earlier this month, and her office claims that her recent announcement falls in line with it.

Jan 15, 2025 · When it comes to housing, Governor Kathy Hochul has been banging on the same drum for years: New York isn’t building enough. In public appearances and interviews, she has repeatedly emphasized that New York’s housing shortage is …

If all you heard was her State of the State address, Kathy Hochul would sound like a governor ready to make bold moves on climate. “We need look no further than the deadly fires in Los Angeles for a reminder of how fragile our world is and what the future will hold if we sacrifice mother nature on the altar of profit,” she said.

Jan 30, 2025 · New York government is notoriously corrupt. Decisions that impact all of our lives are often made during backroom deals, with little public input.

Jan 15, 2025 · But public defenders worry that Hochul’s changes would gut the heart of discovery reform. “The governor’s proposal would allow prosecutors to disregard these timeframes in every single case, move forward without providing all of the evidence, and shift the burden to the defense to request evidence in order to obtain it,” said Eli Northrup, criminal defense policy director for The Bronx ...

Jan 15, 2025 · New York has among the highest child poverty rates in the country, with nearly one in five kids living in poverty. That number fell by more than 40 percent when the federal child tax credit was temporarily expanded in 2021, but increased again when the measure expired.. The state’s Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council, set up by a 2021 state law to cut child poverty in half, recently ...

Mar 11, 2024 · In the coming weeks, New York’s lawmakers will pass a budget that determines how the state will spend over $230 billion in public money. It’s a massive sum, bigger than most countries’ budgets, and outpacing every other state except California.