New Jersey state Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg said Wednesday she will be retiring after three decades in the state Legislature when her term ends.
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Gov. Cuomo delivered his fourth and final part of his series of the State of State Thursday. Cuomo talked about big public projects the state has already completed in his tenure.
The governor says now is the time for the government to spark the economy with development.
Those plans include converting an underutilized exit ramp in Albany into a landscaped park with event spaces, and a path connecting several Downtown Albany neighborhoods.
Cuomo says he expects the $11.4 million project to be done this year.
You can read more about that and the other state projects below.
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NEW YORK (WABC) Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined an ambitious vision for public sector redevelopment - including major renovations of Penn Station and the Port Authority Bus Terminal - during day four of his State of the State address.
Citing New York s long history of spearheading major public works projects, Cuomo announced an ambitious $306 billion infrastructure improvement program, which he called the largest ever undertaken by any state in the nation. Building new projects, enhancing public life, lifts people s spirits, Cuomo said, adding that only the public sector can build the common foundation for a region s economic growth.
At the center of the planned projects is a massive, $51 billion Manhattan Midtown West development, to be created on 140 acres.
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In his fourth and final State of the State address, Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlined plans for $306 billion in infrastructure upgrades. (Darren McGee/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
NEW YORK CITY Planes, trains and automobiles are the lynchpin of a far-reaching $306 billion infrastructure plan for New York that Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled Thursday, calling it the largest, most ambitious plan put forward by any state in the nation.
In his fourth and final State of the State address Thursday, Cuomo outlined a strategy of using public-sector investment in transit and transportation infrastructure to lift New York s economy up from the pandemic-era slump with such projects as expanding Penn Station, redoing the Port Authority Bus Terminal, extending the Second Avenue Subway to East Harlem and continuing work to modernize LaGuardia and JFK Airports.
Senate Majority Leader Weinberg Announces Decision Not to Seek Reelection Senator vows to fight to reform NJ Transit, enact harassment and sexual assault legislation, and increase government transparency in the year ahead Trenton – Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg today announced that she will not be seeking reelection to the State Senate in Bergen County’s 37th District,[.]