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 2025 PRESS articles & editorials, of note

 

February 15, 2025
"The retaliatory firing of the USAID's inspector general is a travesy"
The Hill (Lucy Lang)

 

February 21, 2025
"State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says
fellow Democrat and Governor Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal is vulnerable"
WAMC -- Legislative Gazette

Press in Action/Inaction

February 24, 2025
"The mayor's race is about to become messy"
Crains Business (Ross Barkan)

February 24, 2025
"Can Cuomo bounce back?"
City & State (Rebecca Lewis)

February 24, 2025
"Scott Stringer, a New York City political mainstay,
losing steam on his home turf in mayoral run
"
Politico (Jeff Coltin)
 

February 24, 2025
"Governor Hochul's 2026 Re-Election Campaign
Announces Campaign Manager
"
 

February 25, 2025
"Is Andrew Cuomo on the Verge of Announcing a Run for Mayor?"
NYT (Nicholas Fandos, Jeffrey Mays)

February 26, 2025
"Cuomo...Too Corrupt for New York City?"
Betsy Ross McCaughrey  & here

February 27, 2025
"In a crowded New York City mayoral field,
a legislative leader considers late entry
"
Politico (Jeff Coltin)

February 28, 2025
"Some New York Democrats are desperate
to halt Andrew Cuomo's comeback march
"
Politico (Nick Reisman)

March 6, 2025
"As many top Democrats stay silent on Cuomo mayoral run,
an accuser feels betrayed
"
AP (Jake Offenhartz, Anthony Izaguirre)

March 17, 2025
"Endorsements in the NYC mayoral race"
City & State (Annie McDonough)

 

February 21, 2025
"Nearly half of Adirondack Park agency staff allege management abuse"
Adirondack Explorer (Gwendolyn Craig)

February 26, 2025
"Inside the push to disbar NY Gov Andrew Cuomo"
Gothamist (Jon Campbell) 

February 28, 2025
"Eric Adams' Political Prospects Fade, Andrew Cuomo's Surge"

March 2, 2025
"Albany County DA Lee Kindlon discusses his agenda"
Spectrum News (Camille DeLongis)

March 4, 2025
"Westchester County lawyer selected US Attorney for NY Northern District"
Albany Times Union (Brendan Lyons)

March 4, 2025
NY Commission on Judicial Conduct sees record complaints in 2024
Albany Times Union (Steve Hughes)

 March 5, 2025
NY Judicial Conduct Complaints Up Sharply Amid Increased Public Scrutiny
Bloomberg (Beth Wang)

March 6, 2025  Trump -- injunctions

March 6, 2025
"State Capitol reporter Karen DeWitt to get national honort"
Albany Times Union (Steve Barnes)

March 7, 2025
"A Mayor, A Governor, and a Public Corruption Lawyer: Deja Vu All Over Again?"
Cityland (James Caras)

March 7, 2025
"Democrats say threat of Medicaid cuts not a factor in NY's budget"
Albany Times Union (Raga Justin)

March 8, 2025
"Hochul recuitment drive for fired feds set to add hundreds of millions of dollars to bloated payroll bill"
NY Post (Rich Calder)

March 10, 2025
"New York budget process moves forward but with a dark shadow"
WAMC (Blair Horner)

March 13, 2025
"One House Budget Proposal..."
NY NOW (WMHT-PBS) (Shantel Destra)

March 14, 2025
"New York Budget Negotiations Begin: Here's What's Happening"
PBS -- NY Now  (Shantel Destra)

March 15, 2025
"NY's budget debate is all about how fast to ruin NY"
NY Post (editorial)

March 17, 2025
"Letting the sun shine in at the captol"
WAMC (Blair Horner)

March 17, 2025
"Most of NY's criminal judicial decisions remain hard to find"
Albany Times Union (Justin Raga)

March 17, 2025
"Emperor Andrew Cuomo has no clothes"
NY Post (editorial)

March 19, 2025
"N.Y.'s Medicaid: A Poster Child of Incompetence"
NewsMax:  George Marlin 

March 19, 2025
"...the Mothership has landed"
NY NOW (WMHT-PBS)(Shantel Destra)

March 21, 2025
"New York state budget talks. Where things stand at the end of week one"
Spectrum News (Jack Arpey)

March 21, 2025
"Eying Mayor Adams' Independent Option as He Lags in the Money Race"
The City (Katie Honan)

March 20, 2025
"NY bail reform needs more reforming"
Daily News (Maud Maron)

March 20, 2025
"New York City Isn't Ready for the Trump Stress Test"
Vital City (Harry Siegel)

March 20, 2025
"NY spending set to increase under budget plans"
7News (Gage Kilborne)

March 20, 2025
"How the New York state budget is made"
NCPR -- from NY Focus

March 24, 2025
"The four state budget sticking points"
Politico (Jason Beeferman)

March 25, 2025
"Kathy Hochul, lawmakers steering New York
into a fiscal train wreck
"
NY Post (editorial)

 

March 26, 2025
"New York state senate majority leader: budget"
Spectrum (Luke Parsnow)

March 27, 2025
"
Georgia's Brian Kemp would tie for the top paid state governor under a pay raise proposal"
Brian Amy

March 27, 2025
"NY Assembly speaker: State budget talks 'kind of at a standstill' with members heading home"
Spectrum News (Luke Parsnow, Kate Lisa)

March 27, 2025
"Andrew Cuomo accuses Trump-hating NY AG Tish James of l
eaking salacious details of scandalous 'connection' with aide
"
Daily Mail (Stephen Lepore)
stephen.lepore@mailonline.com

March 27, 2025 -- Politics Unusual -- NY FOX
Morgan McKay

March 27, 2025
Daily News -- Sommerfeldt -- conflict of interest

 

March 28, 2025
"Stefanik Lists 'NY Corruption' and Other Factors
to Explain Why She's Remaining in the House
"
Daily Caller (Haily Gomez)

 

March 28, 2025
"Democrats divided on pretrial discovery as state budget talks stall"
Albany Times Union (Dan Clark)

March 28, 2025
"NY health agencies expect to lose $300M in federal Covid-era funds"
Albany Times Union (Raga Justin)

March 28, 2025
"Heastie blames Hochul for budget standstill: 'Nothing's moving'"
Politico (Bill Mahoney)

 

BLAME IT ON THE HOCHUL: Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is saying it’s Hochul’s fault budget talks have stalled, as state legislators officially gave up on passing the spending plan by Monday’s deadline, POLITICO Pro reports.

Heastie highlighted changes to the discovery laws and a proposed school cell phone ban as the issues causing the latest logjam.

“On Monday, I thought we were at a good conceptual place on discovery, and we have gotten no language from the second floor,” Heastie said, referring to the governor’s office. “We were in a good conceptual place on cell phones … and we’ve got no language. Things are kind of at a standstill.”

Hochul spokesperson Avi Small said the governor is negotiating in “good faith.”

Heastie lamented Thursday that actual budgetary issues aren’t what’s holding things up.

“This much money,” he said while holding two fingers a millimeter apart. “This much policy,” he said while stretching his arms as wide as they could go. “If there’s a way I could put my two fingers into each other so they’d be on the other side, that’s how much time we’ve spent on money.” — Bill Mahoney

 

March 28, 2025
Rush Transcript

 

March 29, 2025
"With budget deadline looming, New York Lawmakers continue negotiations"
WAMC (Samantha Simmons, Jimmy Vielkind)
ssimmons@wamc.org

March 31, 2025
"Another late budget, with Washington looming"
WAMC (Blair Horner)

March 31, 2025
"State lawmakers miss budget deadline over failure to agree on four policies"
News 10 (Rochester) -- Tom Kowalski

March 31, 2025
"Hochul, NY lawmakers to blow past budget deadline in 'standstill' over discovery law reform"
NY Post (Vaughn Golden)

April 1, 2025
O'Mara press release

April 1, 2025
"New York state senator wants tax credit for pubmedia journalism jobs"
Current (Austin Fuller)

S.6756   Senate webpage
A.7567  Assembly webpage

Hoylman X post

April 1, 2025
"NY lawmakers pass budget extender as negotiations
for Hochul's key budget proposals remain at a 'standstill'
"
NY Post (Vaughn Golden)

April 1, 2025
"Another Albany budget bungle: A blown April 1 deadline is no joke"
Daily News (editorial)

April 1, 2025
"Hochul, lawmakers approve budget extender as policy debates stall"
Albany Times Union (Dan Clark)

April 1, 2025
"Legislature ramps up attacks against Hochul"
Politico (Beeferman, Reisman, Mahoney)

April 1, 2025
New York budget deadline extended; S.I. lawmaker claims 'direct failure of Democratic leadership'
SI Live.com

April 1, 2025
"We're talking' Assembly speaker says as state budget deadline passes without a deal"
Spectrum (Jack Arpey)

April 1, 2025
"Legislature passes $1.7 billion extender as state misses budget deadline"
City & State (Austin Jefferson)

April 1, 2025
"State officials fail to pass a budget on time. North Country reps point finger at Governor Hochul"
North Country NOW (Jeff Chudzinski)

Jeff@NorthCountryNow.com

April 1, 2025
"What's holding up the state budget?" -- Vielkind, Han -- David Sommerstein
North Country Radio -- Story of the Day

April 1, 2025 Krueger bill

April 2, 2025
"GOP state legislaors blast Dems over late state budget"
Daily News-Batavia (Brian Quinn)

April 2, 2025
"Preparing for the pain of possible mid year budget cuts in New York"
Spectrum (Susan Arbetter
“We have a statutory constitutional deadline to pass a budget,” Budget Director Blake Washington told reporters on Monday. “We want to deal with the facts as they are today, not what could or could be in two months from now. And that's what the plan is, to just to continue to engage with the legislature and address if there are any shortfalls.”

April 2, 2025
"Mask ban doesn't belong in the budget, or anywhere else"
Albany Times Union (editorial)

April 2, 2025
"Cuomo had a rocky relationship with local leaders, now he wants to be one"
Jeongyoon Han

April 2, 2025
"Discovery reform..."
WAMC (Jesse King)

 

April 3, 2025
"'Summers are nice here'; state budget stalls over criminal justice policy"
Albany Times Union (Dan Clark)

April 3, 2025
"Budget deadline missed for sixth straight year"
WAER (Evan Fay)

April 3, 2025
"Hochul not 'hung up' on budget deadline as she digs in on policy proposals"
Spectrum News (Jack Arpey)

April 3, 2025
"Assembly Speaker Says Discovery Row Is Among Four Policy Issues Delaying NY State Budget"
NYLJ (Brian Lee)

"Hochul: No Time Frame for New York State Budget - YouTube"
CBS 6  -- "ask our forefathers"

April 3, 2025
"State leaders agree to school cellphone ban as rest of the budget remains in limbo"
City & State (Rebecca Lewis)

April 3, 2025
"NYS Lawmakers pass another budget extender"
News 10 (Jamie Deline)

April 3, 2025
"Late state budget..."
NY NOW (WMHT-PBS) (Shantel Destra)

April 3, 2025
"NY Budget Talks Proceed as Gov Hochul Signs Second Extender"
Bloomberg Law (Zach Williams)

April 4, 2025
"State budget delay continues as lawmakers toil over handful of Hochul's policy plans"
Daily News-Batavia (Alex Gault)

April 4, 2025
"Gov Hochul's public mask ban hits roadblock in state budget talks"
WXXI (Jimmy Vielkind)

April 4, 2025
"Hochul's Plans To Ease Discovery Rules Delays NY Budget Talks"

"mvilensky@bloombergindustry.com" <mvilensky@bloombergindustry.com>

 

March 27, 2025
"Andrew Cuomo accuses Trump-hating NY AG Tish James of leaking salacious details of scandalous 'connection' with aide"
Daily Mail (Stephen Lepore)
stephen.lepore@mailonline.com

 

April 7, 2025
"The State Budget Is Late, But For A Good Reason"
Post-Journal (editorial)

April 7, 2025
"Hochul, lawmakers approve third budget extender while impasse persists"
Albany Times Union (Dan Clark)

April 7, 2025
"Hochul's no-brainer fixes makes NY radical discovery laws less insane"
NY Post (Hannah Meyers)

Apil 8, 2025
"NYers would pay even more taxes to prop up flailing MTA
under backroom deal with Hochul, lawmakers
"
NY Post (Vaughn Golden)

April 9, 2025
"NY top legislator wants to curb Gov Hochul's power as budget talks stall"
Gothamist (Jon Campbell)

April 9, 2025
"Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie makes bombshell bid
to reduce Gov Hochul's power in budget negotiations
"
NY Post (Vaughn Golden, Matt Troutman)

April 9, 2025
"Should state lawmakers be paid even when the budget is late?"
City & State (Austin Jefferson)

April 9, 2025
"NY Lawmakers Want to Get Paid, Even if the Budget Is Late"
NYT (Grace Ashford, )

 

January 2018
"The Essential Guide to the New York State Budget Process"
Politico Pro

March 31, 2019
"Cuomo, Lawmakers Announce Deal on State Budget, Criminal Justice Reform"
NYLJ (Dan Clark)

June 16, 2019
"The Legislature endangered the public by botching criminal justice reform"
NY Post (David Soares)

 

April 14, 2025
"Judging the Credibility of What You Read"
NYS Bar Association (Gail Ehrlich)

 

April 15, 2025
"Trump administration refers NY AG Tish James for prosecution"
NY Post (Josh Christenson, Victor Nava)

April 15, 2025
"Tish James will eat her own words"
NY Post (Jonathan Turley)

April 16, 2025
"Conservatives cheer after Trump admin refers NY AG Letitia James for potential prosecution"
NY Post (Emily Crane)

 

April 11, 2025
"Zachary Young Who Won $5 Million in CNN Defamation Case, Sues Associated Press"
Pike & Lustig

April 14, 2025
"Trump calls on 'wacky crook' Letitia James to resign after troubling fraud allegation surfaces"
Blaze (Courtney Weil)

National Review -- April 17, 2025 "Thank You, Tish James" (Richard Lowry)

May 8, 2025
"FBI opens formal investigation of NY Attorney General Letitia James"
Albany Times Union (Brendan Lyons)

FBI opens formal criminal probe into New York AG Letitia James over alleged mortgage fraud"
NY Post (Caitlin Dornbos, Carl Campanile, Chris Nesi)

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