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The 25-member Affordable Housing Commission will make recommendations to lawmakers at the end of the year.

This will mark the first time Gov. Kathy Hochul will participate in a gubernatorial debate.

Gov. Kathy Hochul will be a target for Rep. Tom Suozzi and Jumaane Williams in the first of two debates featuring the three leading Democrats.

Whoever wins the special election for the 23rd Congressional District will serve out the remainder of Reed’s term, which ends in December.

Albert Einstein once said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” He was one of the world’s greatest physicists (and a socialist). But he was not a fortune-teller looking at this year’s elections in New York State. No one has yet voted.

Voters in the 19th District will go to the polls to pick their new representative on Tuesday, August 23rd.

The LGBTQ leaders in New York politics.

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The year of 2022 will prove to be a major test of the electability of Black statewide candidates as issues around voting rights and justice reform, confront the steady emergence of white supremacy in U.S. politics. With inflation becoming a bigger issue and the aftermath of COVID-19 many candidates will be running against strong headwinds.  The post ELECTION 2022: A Report on Ten Black Candidates Running Statewide in 2022 first appeared on BlackPressUSA.

More than 600 bills now await Gov. Hochul’s signature after lawmakers neared the end of their annual session early Friday morning.

Democratic debate will be moderated by Spectrum News anchors Susan Arbetter and Errol Louis on Thursday, June 2 at 7 p.m.