There are just about six weeks left before New York state lawmakers wrap up the legislative session in Albany. It comes after majority Democrats checked off a laundry list of priorities in the state budget passed earlier this month. Manhattan Assemblyman Danny O’Donnell, from the 69th district, says there’s plenty left to do. Among his priorities are banning hydrofracking fluid from being used to de-ice roads in the state, extending voting rights to parolees, and bolstering the arts.
The Albany Institute of History and Art says Executive Director Tammis Groft will retire. In the position since 2013, Groft began at the downtown...
We listen to New York Governor Kathy Hochul's State of the State address and offer analysis of the Democrat's proposals.
Former Massachusetts State Senator Ben Downing, a native of Pittsfield, is running for governor. Downing, a Democrat who spent a decade in the Senate...