Jim Levulis

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced an agreement with the Senate Majority Leader and Assembly Speaker on a package of limousine safety regulations.

New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney is backing former Vice President Joe Biden for president. The Democrat from New York’s 18th District had supported Beto O’Rourke until the former Texas congressman ended his bid for the Democratic nomination in November. 

New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb says he is resigning his leadership post following a drunk driving arrest on New Year’s Eve. The Republican from Canandaigua said Friday he will not allow his personal challenges distract from the mission of the Assembly Minority Conference. 

Fallout continues over the New Year’s Eve DWI arrest of the leader of the Republicans in the New York State Assembly, Brian Kolb. One GOP colleague is questioning whether Kolb should remain as leader. 

Joe Seeman, a progressive activist, says he is exploring a run to unseat Republican New State Assemblywoman Mary Beth Walsh in 2020. 

The police chief in Vermont's largest city has resigned after admitting he used an anonymous Twitter account to respond to a critic in July. 

Authorities have announced legal action against two former General Electric engineers for conspiring to steal trade secrets. 

The New York State Board of Regents has appointed Shannon Tahoe as the Interim Commissioner of the state education department. Tahoe has been acting commissioner since mid-November following the departure of Beth Berlin. 

New York State Senator Betty Little, a Republican from the 45th District, will not seek re-election in 2020. Little joined the Senate in 2003 after seven years in the state Assembly. 

New York’s Assembly Speaker is elaborating on questions about the alleged leak of a state ethics panel vote. Around the time, Joe Percoco, a former top aide was being investigated, Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo was allegedly told about a secret executive session vote by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics last January, setting off a quiet investigation by the state inspector general’s office — which was unable to substantiate the complaint.

Even though the city will be under a snow emergency, polls will be open in Troy on Tuesday for a $56 million school building project. 

SUNY Plattsburgh has named Alexander Enyedi as its next president. He is currently the provost and vice president of academic affairs at Humboldt University in California. 

Police say they are no longer investigating an alleged racially-motivated assault at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. 

The New York state inspector general’s office has released a report saying Robert Freeman, the former longtime head of the state’s Committee on Open Government, sexually harassed multiple women over many years and abused his position. 

The former supervisor of Prattsville, New York has been charged with fraud relating to grants the Greene County town received in the wake of Hurricane Irene. 

The Albany County Airport Authority has selected Philip Calderone as its next CEO, overseeing operations at Albany International Airport. He will take over for John O’Donnell, who is retiring after more than 20 years with the aiport. 

The Berkshire District Attorney’s office on Wednesday released more details about its investigation into an alleged assault at a college in September. Authorities say campus safety received a call that a student of color was assaulted in a wooded area near Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington on September 27. 

New York State is instituting new requirements for the S.A. Dunn Landfill in Rensselaer. The state Department of Environmental Conservation says the requirements will reduce the potential for odors and other off-site impacts by going beyond existing voluntary actions on the part of the landfill operator.