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RELEASE: Empire Center says new documents unearthed by House show harm done by Cuomo covid19 nursing home order.
NYSNYS News 9/11/2024

RELEASE: NYRA says betting record was set on Travers day at Saratoga. Total handle: $63 million.
NYSNYS News 8/26/2024

RELEASE: Hochul announces $265 million for drinking water infrastructure improvement, including inventory of lead pipes.
NYSNYS News 8/23/2024

RELEASE: Hochul announces $265 million for drinking water infrastructure improvement, including inventory of lead pipes.
NYSNYS News 8/22/2024

RELEASE: Adams orders NYC municipal agencies to inventory city owned properties for potential housing development.
NYSNYS News 8/21/2024

RELEASE: DiNapoli says NYC finances continue to improve, but spending pressures are a concern.
NYSNYS News 8/19/2024

RELEASE: VFW says Trump's denigration of Congressional Medal of Honor awardees is an 'asinine' insult those who have sacrificed and risked their lives above and beyond the call of duty.
NYSNYS News 8/17/2024

RELEASE: Preliminary agenda for August 15, 2024 PSC meeting.
NYSNYS News 8/13/2024

RELEASE: DiNapoli report finds increase in market values for NYC office buildings, but occupancy rate remains far below pre-covid19 levels.
NYSNYS News 8/11/2024

RELEASE: Secretary of Defense Austin overturns plea deal benefiting 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and others who committed terrorist attack.
NYSNYS News 8/4/2024

RELEASE: Hochul asks for federal emergency declaration for upstate counties in aftermath of storm damage.
NYSNYS News 7/21/2024

RELEASE: DiNapoli report on $239 billion 2024-25 budget. Growth in spending far outpacing revenue growth.
NYSNYS News 7/19/2024

RELEASE: Delgado calls on Biden to end re-election campaign, make room for a new leader.
NYSNYS News 7/11/2024

RELEASE: Heastie announces death of former Assembly majority leader James Tallon.
NYSNYS News 7/11/2024

Retired Harrison school teacher and sports announcer Rich Leaf, 76, seeks leniency in sentencing on federal child pornography charges. He targeted boys online. He faces 14 years in prison.
Journal News 7/2/2024

RELEASE: COELIG reports $360.6 million spent on lobbying in 2023. Link to annual report included.
NYSNYS News 6/29/2024

RELEASE: DiNapoli releases brief report summarizing financial challenges facing MTA in absence of congestion pricing revenue.
NYSNYS News 6/26/2024

RELEASE: Zeldin says defeat of Rep. Bowman in primary means the 'anti-American, Jew-hating Squad will be short one radical member in January 2025.'
NYSNYS News 6/26/2024

RELEASES: Hochul announcement on June 17, 2024 heat wave. Youtube video included.
NYSNYS News 6/19/2024

RELEASE: Report by Olson Group released on Cuomo handing of covid19 crisis. Report commissioned by governor's office faults his actions during pandemic. Document attached as PDF.
NYSNYS News 6/17/2024

RELEASE: Hochul opening remarks at end of session press conference on June 7, 2024. Transcript, Youtube video. Complete audio with Q&A is in the NYSNYS News Medicast folder.
NYSNYS News 6/8/2024

RELEASE: Hochul suspends planned congestion pricing tolling system that was scheduled to begin in NYC on June 30. 'I have directed the MTA to indefinitely pause the program.' Transcript, Youtube video.
NYSNYS News 6/6/2024

RELEASE: Former Albany School District educator Kristy Koldis pleads guilty to sexual exploitation of a child. She will serve 180 months in prison. Porn victimization of child began at age 9 and continued through age 14.
NYSNYS News 6/5/2024

RELEASE: Senators Borrello and Helming condemn Democrats for single resolution confirmation vote of 45 Hochul nominees. Some qualified, but others questionable such as spouse of Attica prison riot leader and covid19 Cuomo official.
NYSNYS News 5/30/2024

RELEASE: Reinvent NY report finds upstate NY law firms reaping millions in fees from billions of IDA tax break deals, then pumping cash into political campaigns. Harris Beach, Hodgson Russ cited.
NYSNYS News 5/22/2024

RELEASE: Hochul announces Senate confirmation of Barbara Guinn at OTDA and Dr. DaMia Harris-Madden at OCFS.
NYSNYS News 5/16/2024

RELEASE: NYS Courts announces hiring of Zenith T. Taylor as the first 'Statewide Civic Engagement Coordinator.' Newly created job entails 'community outreach and the development of programs.' No salary or other details given.
NYSNYS News 5/8/2024

RELEASE: Transcript of Mayor Adams remarks at NYPD memorial defending police and praising USA and NYC.
NYSNYS News 5/2/2024

RELEASE: MTA announces congestion pricing road tax will begin on June 30.
NYSNYS News 4/28/2024

RELEASE: Catholic Conference condemns $25 million 'abortion slush fund' included in new state budget.
NYSNYS News 4/27/2024

RELEASE: Hochul says new 2024-25 budget includes plans to shut illegal marijuana drug dealer stores.
NYSNYS News 4/19/2024

RELEASE: Preliminary agenda for April 18 PSC meeting.
NYSNYS News 4/16/2024

RELEASE: NYS GOP gives Stefanik the 'Jack Kemp Leadership Award' at gala fundraiser. Her speech condemns 'Kathy Hochul, Eric Adams, Tish James and Democrats in the cesspool of Albany.'
NYSNYS News 4/5/2024

RELEASE: Hochul says Legislature will miss April 1 budget deadline. She offers extender to April 4.
NYSNYS News 3/28/2024

RELEASE: Transcript of Hochul on ABC's 'The View' on March 13, 2024, talking about Cuomo, bail reform, congestion pricing, southern border migrants.
NYSNYS News 3/13/2024

RELEASE: Hasoni Pratts of the Urban League, Dr. Seema Rivera of Clarkson University and Syracuse businessman Patrick Mannion elected as new members of the board of Regents.
NYSNYS News 3/9/2024

RELEASE: Hochul updates Belmont Park rebuilding using $455 million loan from taxpayers. Project expected to be finished in June 2026, with Belmont Stakes run at Saratoga for two years.
NYSNYS News 3/5/2024

RELEASE: NYS Academy of Family Physicians (NYSAFP) holds annual Advocacy Day in Albany. More than 40 family physicians, residents and students meeting with more than 60 Senate and Assembly members.
NYSNYS News 2/26/2024

RELEASE: Biden and GlobalFoundries announce $1.5 billion for Malta, Saratoga County plant expansion and Vermont plant upgrades. $620 million more in NYS funding.
NYSNYS News 2/23/2024

RELEASE: Biden announces deal with GlobalFoundries for chipfab subsidy in Saratoga County and Vermont.
NYSNYS News 2/23/2024

RELEASE: DiNapoli report on Hochul's proposed 2024-25 state budget. Loss of jobs, population decline cited.
NYSNYS News 2/16/2024

RELEASE: Justice Department announces settlement agreement with governor's office following investigation into Andrew Cuomo's sexual harassment of 'at least 13 female employees of NYS.' PDF attached.
NYSNYS News 1/28/2024

RELEASE: Budget Division website links to documents, bills for Hochul's 2024-25 proposal.
NYSNYS News 1/22/2024

RELEASES: Pentagon contracts for January 2-18, 2024. $479 million to L3Harris of Rochester, $22M to Lockheed Martin in Liverpool, $397M to Lockheed Martin in Syracuse, $400M to SRC in Syracuse.
NYSNYS News 1/19/2024

RELEASE: Press release, transcript of Adams remarks on $109 billion NYC budget for 2024-25 on January 16, 2024.
NYSNYS News 1/17/2024

RELEASE: Hochul announces $5.5 million in grants for conservation easements on agricultural land to prevent development.
NYSNYS News 1/16/2024

RELEASE: Hochul statements, press conference on WNY snow storm on Sunday, January 14, 2024. Releases, transcript, Youtube video.
NYSNYS News 1/15/2024

RELEASES: Hochul offers 5th and 6th proposals of SOS2024. Artificial Intelligence 'Empire AI' $400 million consortium; and new Executive Chamber Office of Service and Civic Engagement headed by Lt. Gov. Delgado.
NYSNYS News 1/9/2024

RELEASE: Equinor announces termination of NYSERDA agreement for Empire Wind 2 project off Long Island.
NYSNYS News 1/6/2024

RELEASE: Texas Gov. Abbott says Adams lawsuit about southern border migrants is unconstitutional. 'Every migrant bused or flown to NYC did so voluntarily,' with Biden permitting them to come here.
NYSNYS News 1/4/2024

RELEASE: Hochul delivers 2nd proposal of SOS24, changing how reading is taught and the 'Science of Reading.' Most 3rd graders in NYS cannot read well. Release, transcript, Youtube video.
NYSNYS News 1/4/2024

Hochul bill veto #151 on December 29, 2023: Wrongful death lawsuits. Veto message attached as PDF.
NYSNYS News 12/31/2023

RELEASE: MTA reports record traffic on NYC bridges and tunnels.
NYSNYS News 12/30/2023

RELEASE: Hochul signs LLC Transparency Act to create database of LLC owners for use by government and law enforcement agencies.
NYSNYS News 12/24/2023

RELEASES: Statements from Upstate United, Fiscal Policy Institute on NY's worst in U.S. population decline as reported by the Census.
NYSNYS News 12/20/2023

RELEASES: Statements on Court of Appeals House redistricting decision issued December 12, 2023. Hochul, James, Cox, Stefanik, legislators, parties, lobbying groups. Link to decision included.
NYSNYS News 12/14/2023

RELEASES: Statements, transcripts from Hochul, James and other Democrats on Texas abortion court ruling, Supreme Court abortion pill case.
NYSNYS News 12/14/2023

RELEASE: Hochul letter to college/university presidents declaring that calls for genocide on campus are not free speech and are illegal under state and federal law.
NYSNYS News 12/10/2023

RELEASE: Hochul announces $100 million for high speed broadband in 'affordable housing.' Money coming from $10 billion covid19 fund for capital projects.
NYSNYS News 12/7/2023

RELEASE: Hochul announces 2024 Belmont Stakes will run in Saratoga in June, with festival June 6-9. No other changes to August racing meet. 156th running of race will be on Saturday, June 8. Belmont renovations prompted change.
NYSNYS News 12/7/2023

RELEASE: Hochul announces redevelopment plan for Creedmore psychiatric center in Queens. 2,800 new apartments.
NYSNYS News 12/7/2023

RELEASE: FERC report on how winter storm on December 21-26, 2023 nearly took down electrical grid and natural gas infrastructure supplying NYC and Westchester.
NYSNYS News 12/3/2023

RELEASE: Inspector General reports problems with drug tests used on DOCCS prison inmate. Evidence is unreliable, but is used to discipline 2,000.
NYSNYS News 12/1/2023

RELEASE: Hochul convenes the NYS Office of Faith and Non-Profit Development Services formerly known as the Office of Faith-Based Community Development and Services
NYSNYS News 11/29/2023

RELEASES: Pentagon contracts for November 15-24, 2023. $9 million to Lockheed Martin in Liverpool, $8M for Navy dress trousers in NY.
NYSNYS News 11/26/2023