ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers want to know if a new state initiative aimed at reducing property taxes is working as intended. A provision in the state budget directs local officials around the state to convene panels to ...

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Two Republican state lawmakers are holding a public hearing on new state labor regulations that they say will have an adverse impact on New York businesses. In November, the Cuomo administration announced that the new regulations will crack down on ...

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday proposed a package of major changes to the state’s criminal justice system. “This sweeping overhaul will transform our criminal justice system by removing critical barriers, reaffirming our beliefs in fairness, opportunity and dignity, and continue ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will lay out his 2018 agenda to lawmakers — including calls to overhaul state sexual harassment policies, create new disclosure rules for online political ads and make it easier to cast ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pardoned 59 people for nonviolent crimes, including 18 immigrants whose years-old convictions put them at risk of deportation despite otherwise law-abiding lives. The Democratic governor announced his latest clemency grants ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state would require online campaign advertisements to include the identity of the group paying for the content under a proposal announced Thursday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that aims to prevent meddling in the state’s ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told a female journalist she was doing “a disservice to women” Wednesday by asking what his administration was doing to confront sexual harassment in state government. Public radio reporter Karen DeWitt ...

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New York state officials are poised to announce the winners of hundreds of millions of dollars of state economic development funding. The awards to be announced Wednesday in Albany are part of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s efforts to spur the ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed legislation that would block plans to move a child psychiatric center to the campus of an adult mental health facility in Buffalo, upsetting opponents who wanted the two facilities to remain separate. ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — An upstate New York woman struggling to find a place to live and a job after ending an abusive relationship said a state employee helped her, only to use it as an excuse to sexually harass ...

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is headed back to Puerto Rico as the state continues to help the U.S. territory recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria. The Democrat’s office announced late Wednesday night that he will be departing ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation that bans electronic cigarettes from places in New York state where smoking tobacco is already prohibited. The measure the Democrat signed into law Monday adds e-cigarettes to the Clean Indoor ...

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