With the exception of 2020, when the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic interfered with legislating, the 2026 state legislative session was Democrats’ least productive since they…
The New York state’s budget was very late, again. But what often gets lost in the budget whirlwind are the legislature’s policy priorities that the governor’s…
State, local and other public sector workers walked away from this year’s state budget with some significant wins after Gov. Kathy Hochul and lawmakers agreed to…
The confusing, frustrating budget cycle is approaching an end nearly two months after the April 1 deadline, more than two weeks after Hochul declared a budget…
