In late April, 6,000 people in the Montreal area had to be evacuated. Late last week, another 3,000 were forced out.
Governor Andrew Cuomo
Posted inNews & Opinion
Cuomo budget calls for legal pot, tackles taxes and health care
Governor Andrew Cuomo has taken a very direct step toward legalizing recreational cannabis use in New York: He’s included a plan to do it in his budget proposal. Cuomo just wrapped up his annual State of the State and budget addresses to lawmakers, and legal cannabis was just one of a long list of policy […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
Cuomo, Legislature to pursue reproductive rights protections
The Reproductive Health Act has passed the state Assembly six times and this year, the state Senate will finally vote on it. Democratic leaders in both the Assembly and Senate expect it to pass, and Governor Andrew Cuomo has promised to swiftly sign it into law. The Reproductive Health Act will essentially modernize that state’s […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
Feedback 3/1
We welcome your comments. Send them to themail@rochester-citynews.com, or post them on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com, our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed, @roccitynews. Comments of fewer than 350 words have a greater chance of being published, and we do edit selections for publication in print. We don’t publish comments sent to other media. Fooled once… […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
Cuomo’s blame game
Local leaders say they’re sick of the governor pointing the finger at them for high property taxes
Posted inNews & Opinion
Cuomo keeps tight grip on his budget proposal
Governor Andrew Cuomo released his $152.3 million budget proposal for 2017-18 last night, but not with any sort of public presentation. He briefed legislators on the budget during the day and reporters later that night. The way that Cuomo’s handling this budget breaks hard from tradition. Usually, he explains the budget to legislators and the […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
Cuomo calls for significant investment in infrastructure
Governor Andrew Cuomo just wrapped up his State of the State speech and budget presentation. The address was something of a shotgun blast of proposals: a high-level overview that touched on everything from tourism promotions to criminal justice reforms. He appealed to the image many New Yorkers’ have of themselves: that we persevere through tough […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
Cuomo restarts the fight for $15
Governor Andrew Cuomo will set the tone for this year’s legislative session in Albany when he gives his combined State of the State and budget address on Wednesday, January 13. At the top of his list: a true, statewide, cross-industry $15 an hour minimum wage. Approximately 2.4 million New Yorkers — a quarter of the […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
Buffalo stews over mayoral control
It was one of the fiercest political debates Rochester has had in recent years. In 2009, the city was embroiled in a divisive wrangle over whether to dissolve the Rochester Board of Education and hand governance of city schools over to then mayor Bob Duffy. The issue sparked protests outside City Hall, led to a […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
State board will examine fast food wages
The state’s labor commissioner will convene a wage board to look into the pay in New York’s fast food industry. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the plan yesterday in a New York Times editorial. The State Labor Department has the power to convene wage boards to recommend minimum wages for specific industries, as long as an […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
Brownfields program nears expiration
The state’s brownfield tax credit program will expire at the end of the year unless lawmakers can agree to a fix. And if the recent past serves as any indication, that agreement may be hard to come by. Under the state’s Brownfield Cleanup Program, developers can receive tax credits for cleaning up and reusing contaminated […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
State budget will include emissions reductions funding
State lawmakers have their eyes on a multi-state greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program as a source of revenue for the 2015-16 state budget. According to an article published on Capital, the state political news website, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the State Senate have proposed sweeping funding from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative into the forthcoming state […]
