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Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced a new plan to give free tuition to SUNY and CUNY students whose families make less than $125,000 a year. Cuomo announced the so-called "Excelsior Scholarship" at LaGuardia Community College in Queens on Tuesday morning.
Several states around the country on Saturday asked cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility's laptop was found to contain malware U.S. officials say is linked to Russian hackers. The Burlington Electric Department, one of Vermont's two largest electric utilities, confirmed Friday it had found on one of its laptops the malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, the name the U.S. government has given to malicious cyber activity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services.
A bill on the governor's desk would finally respect the state's obligation to provide indigent defendants with counsel. There is no defending the perpetuation of an unjust system.
Robert Stephan Cohen has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has privately raised the spectre of the Legislature end-running Gov. Cuomo by passing its own bill to enact its first pay raise since 1999, sources told the Daily News. Doing so would force Cuomo to either grudgingly sign the bill or veto it, which could raise the ire of lawmakers and potentially threaten the governor's legislative agenda heading into 2017, the sources said.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie-the two most powerful Democrats in Albany-escalated their feud over a proposed salary bump for state legislators tonight in a pair of dueling press releases, which found Heastie accusing the governor of holding the State Legislature hostage and of disseminating misinformation. For more than two weeks, the governor and State Legislature have bickered over the possibility of giving lawmakers their first pay raise since 1999, ever since Cuomo's appointees to the Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation blocked the increase at a meeting earlier this month.
President-elect Donald Trump has made big promises when it comes to building new highways, tunnels, bridges and airports in America - and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is hoping he makes good on his word. Cuomo has embarked on projects to rebuild Penn Station and LaGuardia and Kennedy airports, and to replace the aging Tappan Zee Bridge.
As State Senate Democrats cling to the last vanishing wisps of hope they might gain majority and control the agenda this year, one of their number is preparing to abandon the body and pursue a soon-to-be-vacant seat in the City Council. Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins revealed to the Observer he intends to run to replace Councilwoman Inez Dickens, who won election to the Assembly earlier this month-a move that could leave Democrats a vital vote short on core issues facing the State Legislature.
'Kill the police!' Clinton and Trump supporters clash with cops in Indianapolis who blame 'out of town instigators', while 19 are arrested in Portland on another night of widespread protests Yoga expert, 37, accused of killing her identical twin sister by driving them off a 200-foot cliff in Hawaii is arrested on murder charge AGAIN in New York after new evidence emerges California BANS plastic bags: State approves scrap of single-use carriers - so residents now have to bring their own or pay 10 cents 'I'm not giving up and neither should you': Kate McKinnon chokes up as she foregoes comedy and performs rendition of late Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah at beginning of SNL Hillary blames Comey: Clinton tells donors she was 'leading by large margins' before white women sitting on the fence were swayed by FBI director's decision to reopen email probe Megyn Kelly claims Trump repeatedly offered ... (more)
Democrats had hoped to make inroads into the State Senate- but preliminary results show the Republicans gaining one seat to hold a razor thin 32-seat majority. Despite a corruption scandal among Republicans on Long Island, incumbent GOP Senators apparently kept their seats, and won an open seat formerly held by a Republican.
In the latest developments in New York state government, legislative candidates make their final pitches to the voters before election day, the state ends its legal fight with two daily fantasy sports companies and Uber delivers free flu shots in another effort to court upstate. State lawmakers and their challengers will spend the next week making their final campaign pushes ahead of the Nov. 8 election, and control of the state Senate hangs in the balance.
A little-known clock has been ticking down for New Yorkers. Critically important draft rules, adopting the first-ever set of official sea level projections for our state, are on the brink of expiring.
Mayor Bill de Blasio called upon the Port Authority-the sprawling, controversial entity run jointly by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie -to increase the minimum wage for Newark Liberty Airport workers to $15 an hour immediately. Speaking at the authority's meeting of commissioners and board committee today, de Blasio pointed out that workers at P.A.-controlled LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy in New York airports are already scheduled to earn a $15 per hour minimum wage in 2018 thanks to a New York State law Cuomo spearheaded last year .
Federal investigators are sifting through the wreckage of a train crash in New Jersey to determine what happened before it barreled through a station and crashed into a barrier, causing a young mother to be killed by falling debris and injuring more than 100 others. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board will be looking to determine how fast the commuter train was going when it crashed at the busy Hoboken station Thursday morning.
REVEALED: Brad Pitt's mid-air argument with son Maddox led to Angelina Jolie filing for divorce five days later as FBI probes clash I don't need to take brain function tests, says Clinton - despite video showing her eyes moving out-of-sync America's toughest prosecutor demands Anthony Weiner's cellphone records after DailyMail.com reveals his sexting relationship with girl, 15 Yahoo was told of massive hack at least two months ago: Cyber criminal has been attempting to sell details of 500 million users on the dark web Mia Farrow's adopted son Thaddeus KILLED HIMSELF: The paraplegic 27-year-old shot himself while sat in his car Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is smacked in the face with a pie by man, 32, after his charity dinner speech Disney pulls children's costume for new Polynesian princess film Moana from its stores and apologizes for the 'brownface' outfit Ex-aide and close family ... (more)
A team of five FBI agents have searched an Uber driver's vehicle that had been damaged in the Manhattan blast, ripping off the door panels inside as they examined it for evidence. The driver, MD Alam, had just picked up three passengers and was driving along 23rd Street when the explosion occurred, shattering the car's windows and leaving gaping holes in the rear passenger-side door.
18, 2016, after an incident that injured passers-by Saturday night. . New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, and Mayor Bill de Blasio walk towards the scene of an explosion on West 23rd street in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, in New York, Sunday, Sept.
The push by labor unions and activists to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour may hurt young and less-educated workers the most. In 2013, the Obama administration proposed an increase to the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.00 an hour.
American Jews are likely to vote for Hillary Clinton in November, but American Jewry's fastest-growing community is likely to go the other way. A solid majority of ultra-Orthodox Jews will vote for Donald Trump, say experts and Republican operatives in the Haredi enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn.