New: NYS budget continues to be delayed as lawmakers grapple with a politically fraught educational issue for yeshivas, private schools.

Sources say Gov. Hochul is pushing it and congressional politics, including Rep. Pat Ryan's district, are at play.
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Assembly leaders have so far given no explanation of why they rejected the biggest climate item in this year’s budget, which the governor and Senate both pushed for.

New w/ Julia Rock: nysfocus.com/2024/04/19/new…

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Before Speaker Heastie, his college roommate and others scored luxury Bills seats, they were supposed to be asked to verify that their using a state-owned suite had benefited public. But Empire State Development, which wrote that rule, never asked for it nysfocus.com/2024/04/04/buf…

Democratic lawmakers are gearing up for another attempt at changing the state's system of matching campaign funds.

The new effort, sponsored by Sen. James Skoufis, has removed the 'most controversial' element from the 2023 legislation that was vetoed.
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An alliance between two powerful Albany interest groups — labor and auto dealers — is poised to push through a bill making car manufacturers pay hundreds-of-millions of dollars. But how much will consumers end up paying — and do dealers really need the $? nysfocus.com/2024/03/29/uaw…

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Great scoop from Julia Rock and Chris Gelardi: A new pro-Israel PAC is backing primary opponents to DSA- and WFP-endorsed candidates in New York state. It's like a state-level version of AIPAC. nysfocus.com/2024/03/26/isr…

Speaker Heastie privately pledged not to meet with groups connected to a lobbyist he's dating. But the leader of one recently attended a Heastie fundraiser. As the relationship was about to become public, Heastie placed a call returning the $5K donation nysfocus.com/2024/03/26/car…

NEW: Is New York about to slash school budgets? Cut Medicaid spending? Close prisons?

We have your guide to the next few weeks of budget negotiations: nysfocus.com/2024/03/15/new…

New: Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has been dating a lobbyist with business before the Assembly.
He's declining to disclose the relationship or steps to avoid a conflict of interest -- but his office did privately draft a letter about it on Monday nysfocus.com/2024/03/14/car…

New: How Albany's highest-spending lobbying group pushes for more hospital spending -- and made $1 Billion off businesses that benefited from more hospital spending nysfocus.com/2024/02/29/med…

NEW: Billions of dollars that New York is receiving through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law can go to roads or greener forms of transit.

So far, New York is choosing roads. nysfocus.com/2024/02/05/bid…

new, in-depth look at the state of the opioid crisis from Spencer Norris: Hochul promised statewide methadone-distributing vans >2 years ago, but only 2 have rolled out, both in NYC

outside the city, the average person has to go 15 miles to get treatment

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