Gov. Hochul’s veto of the Grieving Families Act on Monday night should not be taken as the end of the long-running effort to correct how state law treats the families of people lost to negligence.
ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul is more popular than ever, according to a Siena poll released late last month.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s pick to be New York’s chief judge sits in limbo a week after the Senate’s judiciary committee voted not to report his nomination to the full Senate. Hochul may be getting r…
Over the past several months, the Western New York community has been reeling with losses and tragedies, each one reminding us how fragile life is. But in spite of, or because of, these advers…
ALBANY (TNS) — I have a confession to make. We have a gas stove.
It’s an old aphorism that if you tax something, you get less of it. Seven states are at risk of finding out exactly how that truism applies to wealth tax legislation introduced in each should …
NEW YORK (TNS) — As much as I’ve enjoyed my career in journalism, and the perks that have gone along with it, like playing basketball with Barack Obama, or exclusive interviews with the last t…
Sunday was the 30th and final day for the state Senate to either confirm or reject Gov. Kathy Hochul’s nomination of Hector LaSalle to be the chief judge of the Court of Appeals, the top judic…
ALBANY (TNS) — The first step toward fixing a problem involves acknowledging it and talking about it openly. So we should be glad that Gov. Kathy Hochul is willing to highlight New York’s popu…
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many shortcomings in the health care system, and right at the top is the inadequacy of how we provide services for people struggling with mental illness.
In Wednesday’s historic 10-9 rejection of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s nominee for chief judge, Hector LaSalle, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s radicals left no doubt about their true goal: They want …
ALBANY (TNS) — New York, we’re told, has embarked on a grand plan to embrace recreational marijuana, a supposed turn away from the “Just Say No” policies of old toward a brighter, mellower future.
ALBANY (TNS) — When it comes to legislation, the reality for business leaders in New York is that they are often on the defensive — that is, they are watching out for initiatives they believe …
ALBANY (TNS) — Don’t believe Hector LaSalle’s opponents. Much of what they’re saying isn’t true.
ALBANY (TNS) — Farm workers and New York’s legislative staffers have some things in common.
When, in February 2021, the temperatures in parts of Texas dropped to the low teens, crashing the power infrastructure, officials were at a loss dealing with a problem that they simply hadn’t …
ALBANY (TNS) — When Attorney General Letitia James released her devastating report on sexual harassment allegations against former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, she said that “no man, no matter how po…
It wasn’t such a heavy lift for the overwhelmingly Democratic Legislature in 2019 to pass the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, and it was easy for then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to pic…
Gov. Kathy Hochul has begun to sign or veto hundreds of bills she left until after the election, yet two she’s yet to act on are no-brainers: vetoing a costly expansion of the state’s wrongful…
ALBANY (TNS) — This much is clear: Kathy Hochul is the first candidate from Upstate New York to win a governor’s race in many years.
