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New York State’s Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said monkeypox continues to spread and people should be aware of the risks as well as how to access the limited supply of vaccines.
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A new poll by Siena College finds Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul leading Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin in the 2022 race to hold New York's top elected post.
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Public safety issues are dominating the governor’s race in New York in recent days as Republican candidate Lee Zeldin calls for repealing the state’s bail reform laws and Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul tells police chiefs that she supports more funding for law enforcement.
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The troubled state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, or JCOPE, went out of businesses earlier this month, after Governor Kathy Hochul and the state legislature agreed to replace it with a new ethics panel, but progress has been slow.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul said the state will spend $70 million for improving child care services in New York State, as part of a plan that ends the state sales tax on baby diapers.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul will soon be appointing a new chief judge for the state, now that Janet DiFiore has announced she’s leaving at the end of the summer. Hochul has an opportunity to remake the court.
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Questions have been raised over campaign donations made to New York Governor Kathy Hochul by a small, family-owned company during a time when they were paid over $600 million to deliver COVID tests to the state. But the governor said there’s no pay to play going on.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul said the state is prepping for a possible new surge of COVID-19 this fall, adds no new rules like indoor masking are anticipated right now.
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Governor Kathy Hochul’s opponent in the race for governor, Lee Zeldin, said Hochul is stalling a review of the state’s COVID-19 policy decisions, including the deaths of thousands of nursing home residents, in order to gain political advantage.
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The New York State Legislature was voting Friday on bills to address two recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings on gun safety and abortion rights. The measures include new restrictions on carrying a concealed weapon and a constitutional amendment protecting abortion.