JOINT LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester), Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski (D-New City), Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern), and Suffern Mayor Trish Abato held a press conference with a coalition of New Jersey legislators, Assemblyman Eustace and Assemblywoman Schepisi, to announce the inclusion of the Rockland-Bergen Flood Mitigation Task Force in the 2014-15 New York State […]
Tuxedo-Assembly candidate Dan Castricone this blasted a decision by federal bureaucrats that will soon impose a 10 percent electricity rate increase on Orange and Rockland County consumers and businesses. The rate hikes are the consequence of a decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to create a ‘new capacity zone,’ in the Hudson Valley. […]
ALBANY…NYGOP Chair Ed Cox released the following statement after Comptroller Tom DiNapoli stated that he will no opt-in to public campaign financing: “After Comptroller DiNapoli did his job by pointing out that the Governor’s sham projected budget surplus is actually a $3.4 billion deficit, and that the Governor used $700 million in one-shot budget gimmicks […]
Cuomo-appointed commission will develop legislation by end of year to raise minimum age of criminal responsibility FROM RAISE THE AGE ALBANY – Supporters of ‘Raise the Age NY,’ the statewide campaign pushing New York state to be “smart on crime” by raising the state’s minimum age of criminal responsibility, applauded Governor Cuomo’s announcement of the […]
FROM NYCF Albany, NY – Earlier this year, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) rejected New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms’ application to protect its large donors from public disclosure. New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms (NYCF), a statewide pro-life, pro-family organization that lobbies on behalf of the evangelical Christian community, had applied for an exemption […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The movement to abolish Governor Andrew Cuomo’s NY SAFE Act- the controversial gun control measure pushed through the Legislature last January, under emergency protocol and thus without normal debate-continues apace and figures to play a role in the upcoming gubernatorial election. Thousands of protesters showed up in downtown Albany on Tuesday, April […]
