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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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April 1st, the first day of New York State’s fiscal year, came and went this weekend with no state budget agreement. It has been a few years since the state budget was approved on-time, with all recent ones enacted in the first half of April.
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New York State’s fiscal year begins on April 1st – one of the earliest deadlines in the nation. Governor Hochul kicked off the budget process by unveiling her plan on February 1st. The state Legislature then convened public hearings to examine the governor’s plans. In response, last week the Senate and Assembly released their respective budget plans.
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With just over two weeks before the new fiscal year, the two chambers of the New York state Legislature have released their proposed budgets.
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Local New York State theater and arts executives, and area political leaders, made their case for $20 million in state funding at a recent press conference at the Palace Theatre in Albany.
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The big Albany news last week was the unveiling of Governor Hochul’s 2023-2024 Executive Budget proposal. The proposed $227 billion proposal covers a lot of ground, calling for more money for existing programs, as well as offering new policy initiatives. The governor wants record increases in education and Medicaid spending. She also would set aside more than $1 billion to help New York City pay some costs of providing social services to new asylum seekers. Her budget offered details about her plan to build 800,000 units of affordable housing over the next decade.
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Local legislators in Albany are hoping to do away with an annual back-and-forth for state aid.
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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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Democrat D. Billy Jones, who represents the 115th Assembly District, talked about the New York budget’s benefits and the arrest of former Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin on federal corruption charges
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Early Saturday morning, the Legislature approved the state’s $220 billion budget. The budget agreement was eased by billions in federal governmental financial support, as well as swelling state tax revenues. The state’s huge budget surplus made the budget negotiation process easier to manage, but it was still late – and Albany had to resort to its bag of tricks to get it done.