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Capitol Confidential Albany Here’s a sign, one of several, that’s cropped up in the Empire State Plaza about 80 yards south of the “Times Square” area where visitors have to go through metal detectors before entering
Read More »Legislature OKs budget as protesters make final drive against cuts
Times Union Albany With protesters angry about budget cuts rallying inside the Capitol, state lawmakers completed work on a $132.5 billion state budget early Thursday morning. The Senate passed the budget at about midnight and the Assembly
Read More »No pizza, no peace! No pizza, no peace!
Capitol Confidential Albany Stomachs were growling and the crowd was getting hungry down in the Capitol’s Washington Avenue entrance as the delivery of some 70 pizzas hit a security snag. Yes, it sounds absurd and a
Read More »The protest collective plots its strategy
Capitol Confidential Albany Standing in a circle in a darkened War Room just outside the governor’s chambers, this group of demonstrators including a bunch of SUNY students were plotting out the rest of the night in
Read More »Capitol sleepover!
Capitol Confidential Albany Here’s the release out from AQE publicizing tomorrow’s planned “camp-in” to protest the state budget. Should dovetail nicely with one of those famous midnight votes on the budget, which could come Wednesday or
Read More »School funding advocates fill Capitol halls, stairways
Times Union Albany Here are some shots from the second demonstration of the day, which is quite a bit larger than the earlier Hepatitis C group. This group of marchers, about 1,200 strong, brought in by
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 »Citizen Action joins tax call in Alternate SOS
Capitol Confidential, Albany, NY Add Citizen Action to the list of lawmakers (albiet in the minority) and others who say Gov. Andrew Cuomo should consider raising taxes rather than making drastic cuts. Here’s their “Alternate State
Read More »U.S. tax cuts can cost state $6B
Times Union Albany The question of whether the Bush-era income tax cuts should be fully or partially extended this year has dominated much of the debate in Washington D.C. But that battle raging in Congress and the
Read More »Unions, activists say federal tax cut would cost the state.
Capitol Confidential Albany Union reps as well as groups supportive of higher state income taxes and social justice issues say the tax cut currently under consideration in Congress could have some big impacts here in New
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