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Democrats who lead the New York State Legislature are moving ahead with several criminal justice reforms in the remaining weeks of the 2021 session. But

WBFO Albany Correspondent Karen Dewitt reports Assembly Republican Leader Will Barclay said the crime rate in major cities in New York increased in 2020, and that concerning trend is continuing in 2021. “It seems like every morning we wake up to see another story about violence in our streets or a shooting where innocent victims are either killed or injured,” said Barclay, who added Democrats who lead the Legislature in Albany are “doing nothing” about it. The rate of violent crimes is up nationally as well, though not as high as in earlier decades like the 1980s and 1990s. Some polit...

New York state has revised its mask guidance for child care programs after criticism of the policy that required children ages 2 and older to wear face coverings.

Pat Bradley / WAMC New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo disclosed Monday that he was paid a $3.1 million advance to write his COVID-19 leadership book last year and under his publishing contract will make another $2 million on the memoir over the next two years. That total windfall of more than $5.1 million further inflamed critics who have said it was inappropriate for Cuomo to personally enrich himself with a self-congratulatory book, published just as the state was seeing a deadly resurgence in infections last October. Cuomo, a Democrat, had previously declined to say how much money he made fro...

Amid all the pearl-clutching and political gamesmanship surrounding the news that New...