State & Regional News

By Hank Russell New York State bought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of medical equipment at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, including ventilators and x-ray machines, that now sits unused in storage facilities […]

By Hank Russell As Democrats in the state Legislature are holding up the state budget over proposed changes to discovery laws, Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic […]

Poll Shows Optimism among Republican Voters By Hank Russell The most recent poll from the Siena College Research Institute (SCRI) shows that consumer sentiment across New York State and the country are dropping as they […]

Qualifying Taxpayers May Be Eligible to File for Free By Cooper Smith New York Attorney General Letitia James recently issued a consumer alert advising New Yorkers to be wary about common tax preparation scams and […]

By Hank Russell Once again, the state missed its April 1 deadline to have the budget. Many Republican members of the Assembly are seething at the fact that there is no budget to be delivered […]

Governor Kathy Hochul shared a breakdown of the Trump administration’s sweeping federal cuts to New York State’s health programs, and how these cuts to health funding will affect New Yorkers. The amount of funding lost […]

By Hank Russell An anti-abortion group lost its case against the state of New York after a district judge ruled that three members of the organization willfully blocked access to reproductive healthcare and abortion services […]

Carrie Meek Gallagher, the Public Service Commission’s (PSC) regional director, will be the guest speaker at LIMBA (Long Island Metro Business Action) on April 4. This event will take place at the Candlelight Diner, located […]

By Lindsay Press Three days after both sides agreed to terms to end an illegal strike by New York State correction officers, Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order that bars those who took part […]

By Hank Russell With more than a month to go before the tax filing deadline approaches, WalletHub just released a report on the states with the highest and lowest tax rates. For New Yorkers, it […]