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☆ N.Y. Lawmakers Confront Hot-Button Issues in Rare Return to Albany
  + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Luis Ferré-Sadurní | Grace Ashford | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
One of the more consequential matters hanging in balance concerns the development of offshore wind farms along the coast of Long Island. Ms. Hochul has called offshore wind, which tends to be more productive and less disruptive than land turbines, a key component of her climate plan. Democrats in the State Senate approved the bill earlier this month, but it is unclear how the Assembly will proceed. The measure has found opposition among citizens and Republican representatives on Long Island, who say the developer has not adequately allayed safety concerns. The district attorneys group argued that the state already had laws to protect people from wrongful convictions and that the bill would serve to eliminate finality in criminal convictions or plea deals.
Persons: Hochul, “, ” Mr, Heastie Organizations: Senate, Republican Locations: New York, Albany, Long
☆ Opinion | New York Politicians Are Turning Away From the Housing Crisis
  + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Mara Gay | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
New York needs that plan, known as the Housing Compact, and hopefully Ms. Hochul can resurrect it over the coming year. In the coming days though, Ms. Hochul, Mr. Heastie and Ms. Stewart-Cousins can at least agree to policies that the governor has called “low-hanging fruit,” some of which could be achieved by executive order. Albany can also remove caps on the size of new residential buildings in New York City, paving the way for the higher density projects the city badly needs. New York City’s municipal government can do this, but it needs Mr. Adams’s help. At the Department of Homeless Services, more and better-trained workers are needed to help shelter residents apply for city housing vouchers, an onerous process that should be streamlined.
Persons: isn’t, Carl Heastie, Andrea Stewart, Cousins, Kathy Hochul, Hochul, Heastie, Stewart, Adams, Adams’s, Dave Giffen Organizations: Gov, City Hall, Legal, Department of Homeless Services, Coalition, Homeless Locations: Albany, New York, New York City
☆ New York State Budget Deal Would Raise Minimum Wage and Change Bail Laws
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Luis Ferré-Sadurní | Grace Ashford | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday announced that she and state lawmakers had reached an agreement on a roughly $229 billion state budget that would change the state’s bail laws, increase the minimum wage and provide urgently needed funding for New York City’s transit system. The deal capped weeks of contentious negotiations that divided the governor and the Democrat-led State Legislature, delaying its expected passage by almost a month — the latest budget in over a decade. The broad strokes of the “conceptual agreement” were revealed by the governor at an impromptu news conference at the State Capitol on Thursday evening; some of the details, Ms. Hochul said, were still being “fine tuned.”Representatives for Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the majority leader in the State Senate, and Carl E. Heastie, the Assembly speaker, confirmed the deal. Lawmakers, who had already left Albany for the week because they had not anticipated an agreement, are expected to vote to approve the budget as early as next week.
☆ Democrats after the elections are buying into GOP falsehoods about bail reform
  + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Scott Hechinger | Dyjuan Tatro | Scott Hechinger Is The Founder | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
Despite police, county executives and national pundits falsely labeling bail reform a disaster, in the few places like New York state that have tried it, bail reform has been a win for freedom. Bail reform has been a win for fiscal responsibility, saving taxpayers millions of dollars by avoiding the costs of unnecessary mass detention. Laura Gillen, a Democrat and fierce opponent of bail reform who lost her Long Island congressional race, took to Twitter to argue that bail reform was a reason Democrats lost control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Democrats lost because they ran from the truth about bail reform, amplifying lies instead of championing what should have been their policy win. The truth about bail reform isn’t just a political game — it is a moral imperative.
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