The headline says the “new” Cuomo budget, but plenty of what we heard from Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his 2012-13 state budget presentation in Albany last week sure sounded a lot like last year — and that’s a great sheet of music to keep reading from.
Legendary singer Etta James died Friday at the age of 73 of complications from leukemia. James was best known for her song "At Last" and won six Grammys and 17 Blues Music awards in her career. Click inside to see more.
It was standing room only inside the Livingston County Chamber of Commerce board room last Thursday as more than 40 people came out to hear New York Secretary of State Cesar Perales present Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State address.
Rick Perry dropped out of the Republican race for president on Thursday morning after polling badly in South Carolina, a state in which he had been expected to do well. Click inside for more coverage.
State Sen. Tom O’Mara (R,C-Big Flats) welcomed Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed 2012-13 state budget for proposing additional steps toward eliminating the local share of Medicaid costs. But O’Mara plans to keep pushing for this year’s final budget to do even more to eliminate the local costs associated with the state’s $53-billion-plus Medicaid program.
Assemblyman Phil Palmesano (R,C,I – Corning) released the following statement in response to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget presentation.
Sen. Catharine Young (R,C,I-Olean) said Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget is a good starting point, and she looks forward to building on his priorities.
Jon Huntsman dropped out of the Republican race for president on Monday morning, and he offered his endorsement to Mitt Romney. Click inside for more coverage.
On Jan. 17, Gov. Andrew Cuomo will present his Executive Budget for the 2012-13 Fiscal Year. From my perspective, his budget should address several important issues which I have outlined.
Tax collections through the first three quarters of the 2011-12 fiscal year were $230.7 million below the most recent estimates, according to the December 2011 cash report released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
Clean Growth Now—a coalition comprised of New York’s labor, business, landowners, and agricultural communities— Tuesday urged the Department of Environmental Conservation to finalize its draft regulations for natural gas development as its public comment period ended this week.
More than 70 percent of local governments reviewed by auditors had adopted budgets with a property tax levy that was within the allowable limit, while 5 percent exceeded the cap inappropriately, according to an analysis by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s office. In the last few weeks DiNapoli sent more than 200 auditors across the state to review the new budgets of 798 municipalities. See list of the governments that stayed within the cap (PDF).
In Livingston County, two municipalities overrode the proprty tax cap: Conesus Fire District and the town of Conesus. Several Steuben County governments properly overrode their property tax caps, including Atlanta-North Cohocton Fire District, Steuben County and the towns of Bath, Campbell, Canisteo, Cohocton, Greenwood, Hartsville, Hornby, Hornellsville, Jasper, Pulteney, Troupsburg, Tuscarora, Wayland and Wheeler.
Rep. Tom Reed (R–N.Y. 29) met this morning with his Agriculture Advisory Council in Bath. The 39 members of the council represented all eight counties of the 29th Congressional District and a wide variety of agricultural expertise. The members, almost all of whom are active farmers, were selected based upon their experience, expertise, unique skills and outstanding contributions to the upstate New York agriculture community.
Last week’s reaffirmation of one of our government’s key traditions marked only the second time throughout most of the past century that the speech wasn’t delivered in the State Assembly Chamber, a move this governor first made last year to allow for greater public attendance. Agree or disagree (and there are always critics), it’s symbolic yet again of what’s clearly been the driving hope behind this chief executive’s style of leadership so far, which he expressed this year this way in continuing to call up a new era in New York government, “We put the politics aside and put the people first. And it worked. And we worked. We delivered for the people — and we made this state a better state and I was honored be a part of it with you.”
With these words in mind, then, let’s first recall some of 2011’s hallmarks.
Strong job gains in the U.S. last month and in 2011, coupled with the falling unemployment rate, could be harbingers of an improving economy in local counties, state Department of Labor economists and analysts said Friday.
To help kick off the new year in New York State government, which officially got underway yesterday in Albany with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s second State of the State message, Sen. Tom O’Mara (R-C, Big Flats) today announced 2012 contact information for his district offices in Elmira and Bath, and his Albany office.
The latest Rasmussen Reports poll heading into the Iowa caucuses shows that Mitt Romney (23 percent) and Ron Paul (22 percent) are leading the field. Rick Santorum is third with 16 percent, and Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich are next with 13 percent. Click inside to see a video report on the poll.
It’s hard to believe that the final days of my first year as this region’s State Senator are on the doorstep, but here they are. I can’t think of a better way to ring out year one than by recalling some of the thoughts I started with back in January, especially this one: the economic and fiscal challenges may be as daunting as they’ve ever been in New York State, but there has never been a more important time to serve.
Scott Rasmussen talks to Fox News about the latest poll numbers ahead of the Iowa caucuses. Click inside to see the video.
House Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans came to a deal late Thursday on extending the payroll tax cuts. Without a deal, Americans would have seen their take-home pay decrease on Jan. 1. Here are five things to know about what happened.
