When the COVID emergency began in March of 2020, local governments had to quickly adapt. Public meetings across the Northeast migrated to Zoom as states made emergency allowances to open meetings laws. Now that public life is reopening, the chair of the 39-memeber Albany County Legislature says some of those changes should remain. Democrat Andrew Joyce and his colleagues wrote to state lawmakers asking them to consider tweaks to the Open Meetings Law.
The last several years have been a rollercoaster for state and local budget-writers, who confronted the disruption and uncertainty of the COVID pandemic, which...
We discuss issues facing New York lawmakers as they prepare to head back to Albany for a new session and the mayors of Pittsfield...
The impeachment probe against Gov. Andrew Cuomo will end August 25, a day after the governor resigns. We speak with a member of the...