STATEIMPACT PENNSYLVANIA - President Biden is selling the climate-friendly aspects of his $2 trillion infrastructure plan as a chance to create good-paying union jobs. But at a local branch of one of the country’s oldest unions, there are doubts that dealing with climate change will be good for workers here, in the oil-and-gas state of Pennsylvania. CLICK HERE:
NEW YORK NOW - State lawmakers in New York could take the first step this year toward scrapping the state’s current ethics agencies and replacing them with a new, more powerful panel less likely to be influenced by elected officials. Sen. Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan, said in an interview on New York NOW that there’s appetite in the state Legislature for an ethics overhaul in Albany, and that it could start this year.
ALBANY, NY (WSKG) - New York state’s comptroller is authorizing the state’s attorney general to begin a potential criminal probe into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s book deal, looking into whether he used his staff to help him write a memoir about his handling of the pandemic. The referral from Comptroller Tom DiNapoli allows Attorney General Letitia James to look into whether senior and junior staffers to Cuomo were coerced into helping the governor write and edit the book, titled "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic," or whether they simply volunteered their time, as Cuomo claims.
The referral letter, first reported in the New York Times, says, “allegations have recently emerged that public resources may have been used in the development and promotion of the Governor’s book."
NEW YORK NOW - Next year’s race for governor in New York has officially begun. Republican leaders in New York gathered in Albany Monday to hear from potential gubernatorial nominees, who would go on to compete next year against either Gov. Andrew Cuomo, or whichever Democrat lands on the ticket in his place.
BINGHAMTON, NY (WSKG) — Parents and community members debated a Binghamton elementary school’s “Book of the Month” until close to midnight on Monday. “Something Happened In Our Town” follows two kids, one Black and one white, after a Black man is shot by police in their town.
