Hundreds of people with mental illness and advocates for the mental-health system were at the Capitol today to lobby for the state to invest more money in housing, peer support and employment opportunities. They participated in the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services’ 14th annual Legislative Day. According to… Read More →
Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand heads into the 2012 election with $8.1 million in campaign cash, according to a yearend finance report filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission. New York’s junior senator raised $9.76 million last year, coming out of a successful 2010 campaign in which she spent $13.4 million… Read More →
Marc Cenedella, the Manhattan CEO of the TheLadders.com, said today he won’t run for the GOP nomination against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat. Cenedella’s potential campaign was derailed after he had been found by the New York Times to have written inappropriate blog posts. “I will not be running for… Read More →
Hazel Dukes, president of the state chapter of the NAACP, urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo today to veto the new district lines for legislative offices, calling the lines “absolutely disrespectful” to all ethnic groups. Dukes and the Rev. Al Sharpton are holding a news conference tomorrow at City Hall in Manhattan… Read More →
Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick testified today on redistricting the state’s senate district lines and he asked that Yonkers not be split in half by two senate districts. Lesnick made his statements before the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment at the Bronx Museum of the Arts,... Read More →
Republican Assembly candidate Richard Wager is running March 20 for the vacant 103rd District seat in Poughkeepsie that stretches from Dutchess County to Columbia County. Then, he will likely face a primary as early as June for the 105th Assembly District—a newly created district that would include his hometown of… Read More →
The state Senate passed a bill today that would dramatically expand the state’s DNA database for convicted criminals, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called on the state Assembly to do the same. The bill, which passed 47-8 in the Senate, would require anyone convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor… Read More →
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos spoke to the media following a news conference today, touching on Senate Republicans’ controversial new proposal for district lines, as well as a federal judge’s ruling that New York must hold its congressional primary on June 26 (unless the Legislature changes it.) Here’s some video… Read More →
YONKERS—Mayor Mike Spano was sworn in today as chairman of the Yonkers Industrial Development Agency board, and Deputy Mayor Susan Gerry was sworn in as a board member and secretary. The Yonkers IDA is a public benefit corporation that provides business development incentives to companies that choose to locate or… Read More →
Non-profit groups that provide counseling and legal services to homeowners at risk of foreclosure and a number of lawmakers are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to include $25 million in the state budget to continue the statewide Foreclosure Prevention Services Program. They held a news conference this morning, and advocates are… Read More →
