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Mike Groll / Office of N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he will relinquish the emergency powers he’s held for the past 15 months during the COVID-19 pandemic as infection rates continue to drop and vaccination rates slowly climb. Those powers gave Cuomo the power to close schools and businesses, require masks and social distancing, and regulate how many people could gather at one time, even in private homes. “The emergency is over,” said Cuomo, who added that the state of emergency will end Thursday. “It will not be renewed.” Cuomo’s wide-ranging powers became co...

WBFO Albany Correspondent Karen Dewitt reports Nominee Madeline Singas, the Nassau County district attorney, faced some tough questions from senators on the left and right. In the end, Singas and the governor’s other judicial appointees, won approval in the Senate.  Cuomo nominated Singas and Anthony Cannataro, the administrative judge in New York City’s Civil Court, to fill vacancies at the state’s Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court. Cannataro, who is openly gay, would replace the late Judge Paul Feinman, who was the first openly gay person to serve on the court. Singas ...

New York State Supreme Court. Photo: Alan Strakey, Creative Commons, some rights reserved Jun 09, 2021 — The New York State Senate’s Judiciary Committee held, what was at times, a contentious confirmation hearing for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s nominees to the state’s highest court.  Nominee Madeline Singas, the Nassau County district attorney, faced some tough questions from senators on the left and right. In the end, Singas and the governor’s other judicial appointees, won approval in the Senate.  Cuomo nominated Singas and Anthony Cannataro, the administrative judge in New York City...

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New York State is offering a new incentive to get more people vaccinated, free passes to state parks this Memorial Day weekend. Meanwhile, some state