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( Albany, NY) Today, the Senate Majority will pass its one-house budget resolution that delivers emergency aid to help New York recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and invests in a brighter, more equitable future by fully funding essential services and putting more money in the pockets of working and middle-class families. The Senate resolution increases total school aid by $5.7 billion, provides billions in residential and commercial rental and foreclosure assistance, restores critical funding to our health care system, and jumpstarts our economy with investments in transportation and small b...

Lawmakers blast Cuomo for Rockland Children Psychiatric Center changes amid pandemic stress Nancy Cutler, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Legislators fight the closure of Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center Replay Video UP NEXT ORANGEBURG – If budget cuts close Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center, state lawmakers and workers say the state will spend money later on incarcerating the people who could have been served and potentially saved as children. "People end up in county correctional facilities and state correctional facilities," said Wayne Spence, presid...

Rockland/Westchester Journal News ORANGEBURG – If budget cuts close Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center, state lawmakers and workers say the state will spend money later on incarcerating the people who could have been served and potentially saved as children. "People end up in county correctional facilities and state correctional facilities," said Wayne Spence, president of the Public Employees Federation. He added that is where those who could not get treatment landed after making "the wrong choice." He was among state lawmakers, union leaders, workers and local politicians on Mo...

Judge strikes down use of secret subpoenas in State Police internal probes Ruling undermines agency's practice of sifting through personal records of employees FacebookTwitterEmail New York State Police Superintendent Keith Corlett. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times Union ALBANY — The long-standing practice of state agencies to secretly use their administrative subpoena authority to sift the personal records of employees in internal investigations was struck down by a state Supreme Court justice in a ruling that found the State Police were not adhering to the provisions of...

A.M. Roundup: Counties worried seniors being frozen out of vaccination sign-ups By Brendan J. Lyons on January 18, 2021 at 8:54 AM Many of New York’s county leaders are worried that seniors are being frozen out of the state’s vaccination plans — with tech savvy individuals and unions grabbing up many of the appointments at state-run mass-vaccination centers. (TU) Here’s the rest of your roundup: Albany — and many other cities — are seeing increasingly violent protests — from last year’s bedlam that engulfed the city when protesters clashed with police in the wake of Ge...