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2025 PRESS articles & editorials, of note
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
LEGISLATIVE CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION REPORTERS &
PUBLICATIONS
I.
NEWSPAPERS
ALBANY TIMES UNION
March 7, 2025
"Democrats
say threat of Medicaid cuts not a factor in NY's budget"
Albany Times Union (Raga Justin)
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)
April 1, 2025
"Hochul,
lawmakers approve budget extender as policy debates stall"
Albany Times Union (Dan Clark)
April 2, 2025
"Mask
ban doesn't belong in the budget, or anywhere else"
Albany Times Union (editorial)
April 3, 2025
"'Summers
are nice here'; state budget stalls over criminal justice
policy"
Albany Times Union (Dan Clark)
April 7, 2025
"Hochul,
lawmakers approve third budget extender while impasse
persists"
Albany Times Union (Dan Clark)
April 14, 2025
"The
wrong way to clean up the budget process"
(editorial)
April 15, 2025
"New
York's state budget could soon come together, lawmakers say"
Dan Clark
April 15, 2025
"A
Capcon Pod Relaunch with State Budget Director Blake
Washington"
Dan Clark
April 17, 2025
"The
price of hubris"
By fighting outside income
limits, GOP lawmakers are affirming voters’ worst suspicions
about self-interested politicians.
editorial
NEW YORK TIMES
April 9, 2025
"NY
Lawmakers Want to Get Paid, Even if the Budget Is Late"
NYT (Grace Ashford, Benjamin Oreskes)
NEW YORK POST
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 15, 2025
"NY's
budget debate is all about how fast to ruin NY"
NY Post (editorial)
March 15, 2025
"Democrats'
budget 'debate' is all about how fast to ruin NY"
NY Post (editorial)
March 25, 2025
"Kathy
Hochul, lawmakers steering New York
into a fiscal train wreck"
NY Post (editorial)
March 31, 2025
"Hochul,
NY lawmakers to blow past budget deadline in 'standstill'
over discovery law reform"
NY Post (Vaughn
Golden)
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 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
"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
"Hold
your ground, Gov. Hochul — New York needs your fixes on
justice and mental health"
April 10, 2025
"Albany
lefties are stalling the budget because they HATE criminal
justice"
April 10, 2025
"Hochul
says she won't budge on policy asks in budget --
as lawmakers pass extender then hightail it out of
Albany"
Vaughn Golden
DAILY NEWS
April 1, 2025
"Another
Albany budget bungle: A blown April 1 deadline is no joke"
Daily News (editorial)
NEWSDAY
April 9, 2025
"NYS
budget is overdue; it's time for action in Albany -- again"
Newsday (editorial)
"The
2025-26 state budget was due more than a week ago. ...The
most sensible plan is to quickly resolve the nonfiscal
issues,...
Gov. Kathy Hochul is committed to pushing for several
legislative changes in the budget, where she has the
most leverage. That will require patience and
flexibility on all sides, and if a delayed budget means
lawmakers don't get paid, then the question can be
asked: What were you doing the last three months?
The nonfiscal priorities shouldn't be difficult..."
"MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD are
experienced journalists who offer reasoned opinions, based
on facts, to encourage informed debate about the issues
facing our community."
Contact Newsday - Newsday
NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL
April 3, 2025
"Assembly
Speaker Says Discovery Row Is Among Four Policy Issues
Delaying
NY State Budget"
NYLJ (Brian Lee)
II. OTHER FOR-PROFIT JOURNALISM
POLITICO
March 24, 2025
"The
four state budget sticking points"
Politico
(Jason Beeferman)
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
April 1, 2025
"Legislature
ramps up attacks against Hochul"
Politico
(Beeferman, Reisman, Mahoney)
April 14, 2025
"Albany
says NY'ers 'don't care about late budget"
Jason
Beeferman
CITY & STATE
April 1, 2025
"Legislature
passes $1.7 billion extender as state misses budget deadline"
City & State (Austin Jefferson)
April 3, 2025
"State
leaders agree to school cellphone ban as rest of the budget
remains in limbo"
City & State (Rebecca Lewis)
April 9, 2025
"Should
state lawmakers be paid even when the budget is late?"
City & State (Austin Jefferson)
April 10, 2025
"With
little public progress made, Cleare introduces her own
discovery bill - City & State New York"
Rebecca
Lewis
April 11, 2025
"Forget
King Andrew, Queen Kathy has arrived"
(Rebecca
Lewis)
"A governor has incredible control over the budget process,
and both Hochul and her predecessor, former Gov. Andrew
Cuomo, took advantage of that fact to insert non-budgetary
policy priorities in the spending document. It gives the
executive leverage in ways usually not possible during the
typical legislative process."
April 14, 2025
"State
budget unlikely to be finished before end of month"
Austin Jefferson
April 17, 2025
"The
discovery debate is almost done. What’s next for the budget?"
Rebecca Lewis
ALBANY STATIONS
"Hochul:
No Time Frame for New York State Budget - YouTube"
CBS 6 -- "ask our forefathers"
"Hochul
Stalls Budget Over Policy Issues"
CBS-6-Albany (Mary Alice
Miller)
Power & Politics -- CBS6 Albany
"Blair
Horner Discusses Late State Budget" &
here
&
here -- Tom Eschen
April 11, 2025
Empire State Weekly
"State
Budget Director speaks on budget delay"
April 3, 2025
"NYS
Lawmakers pass another budget extender"
News 10
(Jamie Deline)
NYS lawmakers pass 4th budget extender"
-- Jamie DeLine &
here
“Governors use the leverage of not getting a budget done
until they get their policy initiatives and that doesn’t
mean that everything that has been brought up post the
executive budget is something we can agree to. If it’s
something that the members are okay with, I’m okay talking
about it, but this is why year after year, after year,
budgets are late. It’s never late because of the numbers.
Never late,” said Heastie.
New York Lawmakers Approve Fourth Budget Extender |
NewsRadio WHAM 1180 --
"State Budget Director Blake Washington noted that while the
timing of new proposals
may seem inconvenient, it is
part of an 'organic process.'"
OTHER STATIONS
March 14, 2025
"Experts
say political "dance" underway over budget"
WETN-Elmira - Empire Weekly
March 31, 2025
"State
lawmakers miss budget deadline over failure to agree on four
policies"
News 10 (Rochester) -- Tom Kowalski
Alex Gault
April 4, 2025
"State
budget delay continues as lawmakers toil over handful of
Hochul's policy plans"
Daily News-Batavia (Alex
Gault)
April 10, 2025
Budget talks drag as Heastie introduces bill to take away
some of governor’s leverage
Johnson Newspapers
(mymalonetelgram.com)
April 11, 2025
"State
budget talks drag as Heastie introduces a bill to take away
some of Hochul's leverage"
Adirondack Daily
Enterprise (Alex Gault)
"Lawmakers’ checks are still printed but not distributed,
and handed to legislators the night the budget passes
and becomes law."
III. FOR-PROFIT BROADCASTING
SPECTRUM
March 17, 2025
"No
policy in the budget: How New York legislative leaders
differ as budget negotiations begin"
Spectrum
(Jack Arpey)
March 21, 2025
"New
York state budget talks. Where things stand at the end of
week one"
Spectrum News (Jack Arpey)
March 26, 2025
"New
York state senate majority leader: budget"
Spectrum (Luke Parsnow)
March 27, 2025
"NY
Assembly speaker: State budget talks 'kind of at a
standstill' with members heading home"
Spectrum
News (Luke Parsnow, Kate Lisa)
April 1, 2025
"We're
talking' Assembly speaker says as state budget deadline
passes without a deal"
Spectrum (Jack Arpey)
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 3, 2025
"Hochul
not 'hung up' on budget deadline as she digs in on policy
proposals"
Spectrum News (Jack Arpey)
April 9, 2025 " State
budget at a standstill as economic uncertainty continues"
Spectrum (Bernadette Hogan)
April 10, 2025
Hochul says it's her way or the no budget way
Jack
Arpey)
April 11, 2025
"A
learning experience': Freshman state legislators weigh in on
Albany's closed-door budget process'"
Kate Lisa
&
here
"Experts
question the optics of budget battle for state Dems"
--DAs
State of Politics (Jack Arpey)
"The governor’s proposal has come with the unrelenting
backbeat of pressure from the state’s district attorneys.
Hochul sent them out to do her public bidding three days in
a row, and legislative leaders have blamed them for egging
the governor on in her resistance to meet in the middle.
A pril 17, 2025
"New
York State budget may be turning for home"
Jack Arpey
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IV. PUBLIC MEDIA
New York Public Radio
February 21, 2025
"State
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says
fellow Democrat and Governor Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal
is vulnerable"
WAMC -- Legislative Gazette
March 10, 2025
"New
York budget process moves forward but with a dark shadow"
WAMC (Blair Horner)
March 17, 2025
"Letting
the sun shine in at the captol"
WAMC (Blair
Horner)
March 20, 2025
"How
the New York state budget is made"
NCPR -- from
NY Focus
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)
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 2, 2025
"Discovery
reform..."
WAMC (Jesse King)
April 3, 2025
"Budget
deadline missed for sixth straight year"
WAER
(Evan Fay)
April 4, 2025
"Gov
Hochul's public mask ban hits roadblock in state budget
talks"
WXXI (Jimmy Vielkind)
April 9, 2025
"NY
top legislator wants to curb Gov Hochul's power as budget
talks stall"
Gothamist (Jon Campbell)
April 10, 2025
"Tariff
turmoil could complicate New York's already-late state
budget"
Gothamist (Jimmy Vielkind)
-- audio
-- "Who cares if the state budget is late?" Jon
Campbell, Elizabeth Kim
April 11, 2025
"New
York's budget is on track to be two weeks late"
WAMC -- Vielkind -- Han -- also interview
with Reinvent Albany-Keany & more
Legislative Gazette
-- David Guistina
WRVO --Samantha Simmons
April 14, 2025 -- "Story
of the Day" -- David Sommerstein -- Vielkind -- Han
April 15, 2025
"Here’s
where Gov. Hochul and lawmakers still don’t agree on NY
state budget"
Gothamist (Jon Campbell)
April 15, 2025
"Lawmakers
have a ‘framework’ deal to partly roll back NY discovery
reforms"
WRVO (Jon Campbell)
April 18, 2025
"What's
the Holdup in the NYS Budget?"
Brian Lehrer Show (Jon
Campbell)
PBS -- New York NOW
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)
"NYS
Budget Negotiations Have Stalled, Transparency in the Budget
& A.I. Priorities"
&
HERE
CBC website page
March 4, 2025 letter
March 19, 2025
"...the
Mothership has landed"
NY NOW (WMHT-PBS)(Shantel
Destra)
April 3, 2025
"Late
state budget..."
NY NOW (WMHT-PBS) (Shantel
Destra)
April 9, 2025
"District
attorneys are fourth wheel in state budget thruple"
City & State (Rebecca Lewis)
Capitol Pressroom
April 11, 2025
"Debunking
narratives of the state budget process"
E.J.
McMahon
V. NON-PROFIT
NY FOCUS
March 12, 2025
"How
the New York State Budget Is Made:
We Answer your
questions on New York's notoriously opaque budget process"
Focus (Sam Mellins)
March 17, 2025
"Your
Guide to the 2025 Budget Fight:
We read the Goveernor's, Senate's, and Assembly's budet
proposals so you don't have to"
Focus (Sam
Mellins)
April 8, 2025
"Court
Records Undercut Bronx D.A.'s Testimony on Discovery
Rollbacks"
Brian Kost
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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)
January 21, 2025
"The
Ins and Outs of the Legislation Side
of the New York State Budget Process"
NY Law
School -- Cityland (Liz
Fine)
August 25, 2021
"Liz
Fine Named Counsel to the Governor
as Governor Hochul Takes Office"
February 25, 2025
"DiNapoli
Warns Changing Fiscal Landscape
Could Increase Budget
Challenges for Local Governments"
March 19, 2025
"N.Y.'s
Medicaid: A Poster Child of Incompetence"
NewsMax: George Marlin
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 27, 2025
"Georgia's
Brian Kemp would tie for the top paid state governor under a
pay raise proposal"
Brian Amy
March 31, 2025
" Understanding
the New York State Budget Process (and Taking Action on NY
LCV' Priorities)"
April 1, 2025
O'Mara press release
April 1, 2025
"New York budget deadline
extended; S.I. lawmaker claims 'direct failure of Democratic
leadership"
SI Live.com
April 2, 2025
"GOP
state legislaors blast Dems over late state budget"
Daily News-Batavia (Brian Quinn)
BLOOMBERG
April 3, 2025
"NY
Budget Talks Proceed as Gov Hochul Signs Second Extender"
Bloomberg Law (Zach Williams)
April 4, 2025
"Hochul's
Plans To Ease Discovery Rules Delays NY Budget Talks"
mvilensky@bloombergindustry.com
April 15, 2025
"NY
Gov. Hochul Signs Fifth Budget Extender as Talks Drag On"
Bloomberg Law (Zach Williams)
April 7, 2025
"The
State Budget Is Late, But For A Good Reason"
Post-Journal (editorial)
April 11, 2025
"Involuntary
commitment delaying NY state budget"
Johan
Sheridan Nexstar &
here
April 15, 2025
New York government only knows how to spend | Opinion |
oleantimesherald.com
O'Mara
April 1, 2025 Krueger bill
"There's
a Slant in NYR coverage"
Observer -- ltr
Ray Coniglio is a Fredonia resident.
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