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The Senate and Assembly planned to remain at the Capitol until Saturday, in order to complete the bills and finish getting a budget in place.
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The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded New York an initial $158 million from the Inflation Reduction Act to help residents pay for energy-efficient home upgrades.
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The New York state Board of Elections has determined that Paula Collins is the only Democrat that has qualified to run in this year’s race for the 21st Congressional district seat.
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Micron was awarded $6.1 billion in federal funding under the CHIPS and Science Law some of which will go toward the $100 billion mega-fab project in Clay.
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The New York state budget, which is already over two weeks late, is likely to be even later, after the Legislature’s bill drafting office was the victim of a cyberattack.
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A bill to ban using carbon dioxide to extract oil and gas has passed the state Senate and Assembly. It now awaits Gov. Hochul’s signature.
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A local college professor has been suspended after publishing a controversial article about the Israel-Hamas war in a blog on a left-wing book publisher’s site.
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One day after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that there’s a conceptual deal on the state budget, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said that announcement was premature.
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Tensions have been high at the university since the war in Gaza began, with anti-war protests happening almost weekly and several notable incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia in the Cornell community.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday that a tentative budget deal has been reached, but it will take several days before a new spending plan is in place