Cuomo announced that New York will expand the eligibility requirements for a test to all workers who qualify to go back to work.
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Congressional special election date looks like a rigged game
Combining a special election to replace disgraced Chris Collins with a presidential primary would save money. But it comes with another cost: credibility.
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Budget deficit looms over Cuomo’s State of the State speech
Governor Andrew Cuomo is set to deliver his State of the State message on Wednesday, as New York faces its worst budget deficit in a decade.
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New York’s high-speed rail fail
Rochester doesn’t have enough train travelers to support a coffee shop. Is there really a market upstate for high-speed rail that costs billions?
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Cuomo’s veto snubs Monroe County’s poor
Vetoed bill would have given public assistance recipients across the state the same protections for those in New York City.
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Midterm election brings change and caution
The 2018 midterms were volatile and contentious, and some sort of change was perhaps inevitable. Professional prognosticators said a Blue Wave would put Democrats in control of the House of Representatives, which it did. And Democrats in New York made good on predictions that they’d flip control of the state Senate. The power shifts in […]
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Election Day 2018
For today: Everything you need to know for the upcoming November 6th election day. And tonight: we’ll post results here after the polls close.
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The New York governor’s race: big choices, little attention
New Yorkers have a diverse group of candidates to choose from when they vote for governor this year: a Democratic incumbent who’s pragmatic but often progressive, a conservative Republican, a center-left independent, a Libertarian, and a Green who’s well to the left of everyone. And their positions on state issue are so different that this […]
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Cuomo wins primary against Nixon
Governor Andrew Cuomo hasn’t gotten a lot of good press in the last week or two. His campaign was directly implicated in a Democratic Party mailer meant to smear his primary opponent, Cynthia Nixon. And he faced questions about whether he rushed the opening of new span of the Tappan Zee Bridge downstate to generate […]
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Our recommendations in key primary races
New York’s political parties hold primary elections on September 13. And while Republicans have a primary for the 133rd state Assembly seat, and there are several third-party races (The Reform Party’s for attorney general, the Independence Party’s for Fairport Village mayor and trustee), the big Rochester-area races are in the Democratic Party. We’re endorsing in […]
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The Nixon-Cuomo race
While challenger Cynthia Nixon is campaigning as the more strongly progressive candidate, it’s hard to find many issues on which she and Governor Andrew Cuomo disagree.
More primary action: Three Democrats seek Morelle’s Assembly seat
