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NY state Assembly passes controversial assisted suicide bill after 5 hours of emotional debate
New York state legislators got one step closer to legalizing assisted suicide for terminally ill people on Tuesday.
Gov. Hochul and legislators announce preliminary deal on $254B NY budget -- 28 days after deadline
The 2025-2026 state spending plan is roughly a month late after weeks of haggling, particularly over the Governor’s marquee public safety proposal to change laws around how criminal evidence is...
Hochul will make good on threat to pull $1.3B from Penn Station overhaul after Trump booted MTA from project
Talks were largely stalled for weeks as the Governor refused to agree to changes lefty lawmakers had sought to her proposal to change laws around how evidence is presented ahead...
NY lawmakers back controversial assisted suicide bill as state legislature wrangles with Hochul over budget
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) told lawmakers that the bill – which proponents call medical aid in dying – has the votes to pass, according to a source with knowledge...
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s favorability sees reprieve — while Schumer's nosedives and AOC's soars: poll
Despite the silver lining, Hochul’s polling still remains dismal overall.
Hochul wants earlier release for prisoners serving time for violent offenses in budget deal: sources
According to sources familiar with the talks, Hochul wants to allow some violent offenders to be eligible for the merit time program – which currently allows non-violent offenders to get time...
Kathy Hochul gets scrambled for claiming she 'can't afford' eggs for Easter event — although she, her husband raked in more than $1M last year
Lawmakers bashed the tone deaf comments upon returning to Albany Tuesday to vote on the fifth budget extension, as the spending plan reaches three weeks overdue.
Hochul's 'common sense' push to close labor law loophole facing resistance as budget talks drag on
The bill hasn’t gotten much attention, amid the jostling between Hochul and the legislature over her proposed policy changes she wants tacked onto the spending plan, though business groups want...
Hochul’s homecare program havoc leaves workers unpaid as federal court steps in
A last minute court intervention by non-profit Independent Living Center groups resulted in an agreement by the state to extend timelines for aides and consumers in the Consumer Directed Personal...
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul still publicly silent on state's mask crackdown proposal
The proposal, which falls short of the ban that had been in place for decades pre-COVID-19, is effectively dead, state senators have said.
Cuomo admin bought half a billion dollars of medical equipment during the pandemic it never used: damning audit
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo spent almost $453 million during the COVID-19 pandemic stockpiling medical equipment such as ventilators that have almost entirely gone unused, a damning new audit by the...
Hochul won't budge on policy asks in budget -- as lawmakers bolt from Albany for break: 'Not going to compromise'
The state legislature passed another extension for current spending through Tuesday before skipping town nine days after the April 1 deadline that came and went with negotiations largely at a...
NYers would pay even more taxes to prop up flailing MTA under backroom deal with Hochul, lawmakers
State lawmakers and Gov. Kathy Hochul are finalizing a plan to ding New Yorkers’ pocketbooks to help fund the MTA’s record-breaking capital plan, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) confirmed Tuesday...
NYC DAs make case for discovery reform in Albany as lefties dig in 'for the long haul'
The push by the DA’s to change the 2019 discovery law changes, backed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, has been identified by legislative leaders as one of the key remaining sticking...
NY pols trying to kill Hochul’s mask restriction proposal due to 'heightened concern' over ICE arrests of anti-Israel protesters
“It’s dead unless she forces it,” one Senator told The Post.
NY lawmakers pass budget extender as negotiations for key Hochul proposals remain at a 'standstill'
The Governor’s budget director, Blake Washington, promised Monday afternoon that Hochul "can’t compromise” on her discovery and involuntary commitment proposals signaling that she’s willing to hold up the budget “as...
Hochul, NY lawmakers to blow past budget deadline in 'standstill' over discovery law reforms
“Things are kind of at a standstill,” Heastie said.
Cuomo claims longtime foe NY AG 'leaked' testimony on alleged 'relationship' with his top aide to boost mayoral candidate
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is blaming longtime foe Attorney General Tish James after The Post revealed sworn testimony that he was having an “emotional romantic relationship” with his then-married top...
Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and top aide Melissa DeRosa had ‘emotional romantic relationship': bombshell testimony
Andrew Cuomo and his then-married top aide, Melissa DeRosa, were in an “emotional romantic relationship” while he was New York governor, according to bombshell testimony obtained by The Post.
New York lawmakers get on board with Gov. Hochul's 'bell to bell' school phone ban
The Senate had previously shown some slight disagreement with the Governor’s plan over whether schools should have some leeway to allow students to use phones at some points during the...