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Officials in the North Country are expressing mixed thoughts on Governor Kathy Hochul's 2025 $233 billion executive budget.
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WAMC's Ian Pickus speaks with New York State Senator Jake Ashby, a Republican from the 43rd district.
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The North Country Chamber held its annual legislative forum this morning. The region’s state Senator and two Assembly representatives say the state budget is the main focus of business in Albany right now.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul was at NOVA Bus in Plattsburgh Tuesday touting the new state budget and what she says are its benefits for the North Country region.
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The new state budget replaces New York’s troubled ethics commission with a new entity aimed at lowering the number of scandals in state government. But critics of the plan laid out by Governor Kathy Hochul say the measure doesn’t go far enough and could replicate some of the same problems the current commission created.
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An agreement has been reached on a New York State budget, nearly one week after the deadline, with voting on bills expected to begin Thursday night and wrap up sometime on Friday. The agreement includes some changes to the state’s bail laws, the renewal of a popular pandemic-era rule that allows restaurants to serve alcoholic drinks to go, and a temporary halt to the state’s gas taxes.
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Ethics watchdogs say they are dismayed with a plan developing between Governor Kathy Hochul and New York state lawmakers that would replace the troubled state ethics commission with a new entity.
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The New York state legislature has passed a short-term spending authorization that’s good through Thursday, after failing once again to reach an agreement with Governor Kathy Hochul on a state budget, which is now four days late.
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New York begins the week without a state budget. The spending plan was due last Friday, but Gov. Kathy Hochul and the legislature failed to come to an agreement.
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New York State lawmakers are moving closer to a final budget. Both the state Senate and state Assembly have separately advanced budget plans as countermeasures to Governor Hochul’s proposed budget. Last week, both houses began the process of harmonizing their plans in order to meet the March 31st deadline for a final agreement.