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The council pulled money from new positions proposed by the mayor and applied it toward housing entities.
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Only a handful of residents turned out to offer feedback on the nearly one billion dollar spending plan.
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The state budget is nearly two weeks late, with no end in sight. Lawmakers are expected back in Albany Monday to pass a fourth extender.
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It’s the second year in a row that Governor Kathy Hochul and the state legislature have tried to enact plans that would ease the state’s affordable housing crisis.
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The merger with the downtown Justice Center was first proposed in late Dec. 2022 and approved by the county legislature a few weeks later. Onondaga County Sheriff Toby Shelley followed up with a lawsuit.
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New York State lawmakers plan to meet again on Thursday to pass another spending extender that will last until April 16. The budget was due April 1.
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He says the increase is needed to maintain and improve services residents expect and deserve.
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Gov. Hochul is proposing new stiffer penalties including making it a felony to assault a store employee. But Democrats in the Senate and Assembly are reluctant to increase criminal penalties. Neither house included the new criminal penalties in their budget plans.
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There are about 5,500 more non-enrolled voters in the county than enrolled Republicans. Enrolled Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 33,700.
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One of them is a bill that would extend the state’s ban on natural gas fracking. It's heading to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk after the State Legislature acted recently to prohibit using liquid carbon dioxide to extract the gas from shale rock.
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Less than 1,000 of nearly 198,000 enrolled Democrat and Republican voters have cast ballots during early voting for the presidential primaries.
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Governor Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers concede that there’s no chance that they will meet the state budget deadline, which is the day after Easter. Last year, the budget was more than one month late.