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Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a farmworkers’ rights bill into law Wednesday that will for the first time give the workers benefits other employees get, including time off and overtime pay.
MaryEllen Elia, who is the first female commissioner in the history of the New York State Education Department, said now is the right time to leave the post, and has agreed to accept a job with a national firm that works to turn around struggling public schools.
Is New York entering the bad old days of fiscal gimmicks like selling Attica prison? A budget watchdog group says the delay of a major medicaid payment from one fiscal year into the next is reminiscent of those times.
“It’s shifting the burden of proof from the employee to the employer, and also making sure that the burden is not on the person who is coming forward.”
The first lawsuit has been filed against New York’s new law to permit undocumented immigrants to apply for driver’s licenses, as Governor Andrew Cuomo continued to cast doubt on the effectiveness of the new law.
The measure would make registering to vote an opt- out rather than an opt- in process.
Some county clerks who are opposed to the law are pressing forward on a federal lawsuit.
He is an avid supporter of President Donald Trump, and said Republicans should learn from the president that it’s OK to play hardball in politics.
“The Jewish community is part of our family. And part of our family has been offended. And my family is going to go to Israel to make the point that we stand in solidarity with them.”
Advocates of legalizing adult recreational marijuana plan to spend the next six months convincing New York lawmakers that allowing the drug to be sold.