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Protesters chant while lawmakers enact budget
News Channel 13 - WNYT Albany Lawmakers worked late into the night on Wednesday passing budget bills in a race against Friday's deadline. While the Senate and assembly chambers were filled with legislators, the Capitol corridors
Read More »Protesters chant while lawmakers enact budget
News Channel 13 - WNYT Albany Lawmakers worked late into the night on Wednesday passing budget bills in a race against Friday's deadline. While the Senate and assembly chambers were filled with legislators, the Capitol corridors
Read More »The Checks Are At The Capitol
Capitol Tonight Albany The Alliance for Quality Education and its allies keeping the faith on the seemingly quixotic quest to extend the millionaire’s tax with a higher threshold, despite the fact that the Assembly Democrats are
Read More »Millions spent in battle over budget
Albany Times Union Albany In the early rounds of this year's budget battle, outside groups supporting Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fiscal agenda have outspent those questioning his proposal to bridge a $10 billion deficit with spending cuts
Read More »Will state give away $350M?
Times Union Albany, NY New York's loss could be New Jersey's $350 million gain if the "millionaires tax" is allowed to sunset at the end of this year. An estimated 648,000 people live outside of New York
Read More »Hundreds of education advocates march to Governor’s Mansion to protest proposed school cuts
Troy Record Albany Hundreds of parents and education advocates marched through downtown Albany to protest Governor Cuomo’s proposed cuts to education. Armed with posters featuring pictures of students and stickers that read “Tax the Rich,” protesters
Read More »As Schools Face Cutbacks, a Debate Over What’s Fair
NY Times Albany It is an annual tradition on the day the governor unveils his budget. Flipping page after page of stapled booklets collated by the state’s Education Department, lawmakers search through tiny print for a
Read More »Extra help being made less available to students
CBS 6 - WRGB Albany State Education Leaders decided to put it to a vote on Tuesday that would allow individual schools to decide if a student needs extra help or not in an effort to
Read More »Central New Yorkers react to Gov. David Paterson’s speech: ‘Optimistic tone’ but ‘follow through needed’ (Updated)
Syracuse Post-Standard Syracuse, NY Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, R-Canandaigua “Gov. Paterson's address sounded an optimistic tone, but what New Yorkers will be looking for, what my Assembly Republican colleagues and I will be waiting for, is
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