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SHARE: A new pick for state Senate Finance Committee secretary, a top Democratic staff position in state budget negotiations, has raised eyebrows among progressives concerned that the conference has poached David Friedfel, the top state policy analyst of the Citizens Budget Commission, an independent research organization that advocates conservative fiscal policy. Friedfel will play a lead role in negotiations between the Senate, Assembly and governor’s Division of Budget, as well as in inter...

Dorm Authority: NYs deepest pork barrel Dormitory Authority has grown into the top conduit of backdoor state spending FacebookTwitterEmail 33 1of33Rebecca LaForest, foreground, a work station operator, starts a tool after loading wafters into the equipment, as Carla Delgado, background, a clean room support tech, uses a HEPA vacuum to pickup particles in the NanoFab Central clean room on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany, N.Y. (...

Clarksville Now CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – A change to the state’s grading scale could give Tennessee students an edge for college admissions and scholarships, and it’s in legislation backed by Rep. Jason Hodges, D-Clarksville. The bill working its way through the state legislature would require schools to switch from the current 7-point grading scale to the more widely used 10-point scale. Hodges discussed his bill during a recent interview on Clarksville’s Conversation with...

Wisconsin Examiner Gov. Tony Evers (left) and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (right) at recent separate news conferences, showing their divergent approaches to public health. Evers briefing was conducted online. Vos was held in person, although it was also livestreamed. (Photo illustration) On Tuesday — as Wisconsin set a record-high number of 107 deaths from COVID-19 — Gov. Tony Evers got on the phone with incoming Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to dis...