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Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano is contemplating seeking the Democratic nomination if Gov. Cuomo calls a special election to fill the Senate seat being vacated by fellow Dem George Latimer, who won his race for Westchester county executive last week, sources close to him say. "He loves being mayor of the city and would not be excited about not completing his term, but then again he is term limited and there's going to be a Democratic county executive ," one source said.
Following an impassioned plea from Hudson Valley officials and environmental organizations, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill into law that will protect the Hudson River from barges carrying fracked oil. Earlier this year , bi-partisan Hudson Valley officials came together at the Yonkers waterfront to announce additional legislation that would stop the U.S. Coast Guard's proposal that includes the installation of 16 anchor berths across 715 acres on the water between Yonkers and Dobbs Ferry.
... 1199, New York State Nurses Association, and Golden Tree Asset Management. Last Friday, GNYHA and Afya Foundation, a Yonkers-based non-profit, sent an initial round of supplies to Hospital Susana Centeno on the island of Vieques, and the University ...
... Environmental Conservation. In partnership with the Greater New York Hospital Association and the Afya Foundation, a Yonkers-based non-profit organization that collects and delivers surplus medical supplies to support humanitarian efforts and health ...
There's been some criticism of the way the replacement Tappan Zee bridge was named for the late Mario Cuomo, courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo who inserted a bill to that effect at the very end of this year's legislative session. When Barbara Gaffuri was returning to Albany from a family funeral in Yonkers a few months ago, a relative told her to take a good look at the sign on the Tappan Zee Bridge.
A billionaire hedge fund manager has apologized for an online post saying that a black state senator has "done more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood" because of her support for teachers unions. Daniel Loeb issued a statement saying he regrets the language he used in the Facebook post about Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Yonkers Democrat.
In this April 27, 2015, file photo, Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, speaks during a news conference in Albany, N.Y. Billionaire hedge fund executive Daniel Loeb has apologized for an online post saying Stewart-Cousins has done "more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood." "I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice," Loeb said in his statement about the post, emailed to The Associated Press on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017.
A billionaire hedge fund manager has apologized for an online post saying that a black New York state senator has ''done more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood'' because of her support for teachers unions. Daniel Loeb issued a statement saying he regrets the language he used in the Facebook post about Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Yonkers Democrat.
The Latest on comments made by a New York City hedge fund manager that compared a black New York state lawmaker to the Ku Klux Klan : New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is denouncing comments from a top political donor who said a black New York state senator was worse than the Ku Klux Klan because of her support for teachers unions. Loeb, a billionaire hedge fund manager, wrote an online post in which he said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Yonkers Democrat, had done more damage to "people of color" than anyone who ever "donned a hood," an apparent reference to the Ku Klux Klan.
