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Experts Predict NY’s Tick Season to be ‘Early and Heavy’

Experts at SUNY’s Center for Vector-Borne Diseases are expecting a tough tick season. They say they’ve already seen a lot of early-season tick activity, despite the cold winter and spring. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s tick bite tracker shows that emergency room visits for tick bites in April are the highest they’ve been this time of […]

New York Nears Prohibition on Renting Jail Space to ICE

New York Public News Network | By Jimmy Vielkind Local jails across New York state would be barred from holding people for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under an immigration package taking shape as part of state budget talks, three people familiar with the negotiations said. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democrats who lead the state Legislature […]

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Could Pied-à-Terre Tax Find Its Way Upstate? At Least One Legislator Hopes So

New York Public News Network | By Samuel King Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed a tax on second homes in New York City to help raise more revenue there. Now, a Capital Region lawmaker is proposing a similar tax upstate. The proposed New York City pied-à-terre tax would apply to homes that are worth at least […]

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Blakeman’s GOP Bona Fides: Candidate for Governor Has Investments in Israel, Exxon

New York Public News Network | By Jimmy Vielkind, Rhiannon Rashidi Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, the Republican candidate for governor, reported income in 2025 from Israeli bonds and shares of ExxonMobil, his federal tax returns show. Blakeman and his wife Segal reported $673,476 of income. Most of it came from wages — Bruce Blakeman earned around […]

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Car Insurance Crackdown: NY Gov. Hochul, Lawmakers Weigh Limit on Rate Hikes

New York Public News Network | By Jon Campbell New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders are considering giving regulators more power to limit cost increases for consumers by making insurance companies seek prior state approval for any rate increase, according to three people with knowledge of the talks. The negotiations between Hochul and the […]

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‘Turf Battle:’ New York Joins Fight to Regulate Prediction Markets

By Jimmy Vielkind | New York Public News Network New York is joining the battle between the federal government and states over who will regulate increasingly popular prediction marketplaces like Kalshi. State Attorney General Letitia James last week sued two cryptocurrency exchanges that let users trade on sporting events, saying that their prediction market offerings […]

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GOP Lawmakers Seek to Unlock Matching Funds for Bruce Blakeman in NY Governor’s Race

New York Public News Network | By Jimmy Vielkind Still smarting after their gubernatorial candidate was blocked from receiving public dollars, Republican New York state lawmakers are pushing a long shot bill that would give him another crack at millions in matching funds. In a party-line vote last month, Democrats on the state’s Public Campaign Finance Board […]

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Prison Union Describes ‘Unstable and Dangerous’ Conditions in Letter to Hochul

New York Public News Network | By Emily Russell, NCPR The union that represents New York State corrections officers sent a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul describing a crisis unfolding in the state’s prison system. The letter from the NYS Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, known as NYSCOPBA, said the situation is “increasingly unstable and […]

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‘Energy Hog’ Bus Tour Takes Aim at Data Centers Around New York

Buffalo Toronto Public Media | By Ryan Zunner Environmental advocates have begun a statewide bus tour to lobby Governor Kathy Hochul to crackdown on AI data centers and fully enforce the state’s 2019 climate law. Speaking in front of the former Tonawanda Coke site, where a large data center is being proposed, New York Public Interest […]