Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed a $26 billion green energy plan that would expand solar energy farms and offshore wind farms in New York state.
State of the State
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Cuomo and teachers: it’s war
Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined a set of education reforms in his State of the State address last week that should remove any doubt that he sees teachers and their unions as the root cause of the state’s education problems. And that he’s ready to go to war to fix them. “Our education system needs dramatic […]
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No surprises out of Cuomo’s State of the State
The big questions heading into Governor Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State Address weren’t about what he was going to propose; he’d laid out most of his plans over the past week and a half. Rather, legislators questioned how Cuomo would pay for it all, and media types speculated on the speech’s tone. Much of […]
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Cuomo lays out his 2014 agenda
During his State of the State address this afternoon, Governor Andrew Cuomo spelled out his 2014 initiatives. But few, if any, of the big ticket items came as a surprise. He announced a plan to allow 20 hospitals to prescribe marijuana as treatment for some serious ailments, but that had already been leaked to the […]
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DA’s also want tougher gun laws
As the gun control debate has unfolded in New York and nationally, there’s been a tendency to associate tougher gun restrictions with Democratic legislators and liberals. But the ideological split in the gun debate is not that linear. In advance of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State address yesterday, the District Attorneys Association of […]
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Cuomo’s high-energy, jam-packed State of the State speech
Governor Andrew Cuomo does not lack ideas for New York State. In fact, he’s got a 300-plus page book full of them. During his State of the State address this afternoon, Cuomo laid out his agenda for the next year. He listed off new initiatives for economic development, incentives for state school districts to extend […]
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Governor Talkative
Governor George Pataki began his State of the State with a mild joke on himself. He warned that people “who have sat through the previous 9 hours and 46 minutes” of his SOTSs “know they tend to be long.” No kidding. This year’s masterpiece ran way past 8,000 words. The guv could have […]
