Meet the Fall 2025 Legislative Gazette staff writers, comprised of SUNY New Paltz students: The Legislative Gazette is a student-run newspaper dedicated to covering the politics, policy, and people of ...

Meet the Spring 2025 Legislative Gazette staff, comprised of SUNY New Paltz students: Mya Noe Aung Mya Noe Aung is a staff member at the Legislative Gazette and a senior at SUNY New Paltz, majoring in ...

On March 11, Gov. Hochul announced her proposal for a bell-to-bell cell phone ban policy for public, charter schools and BOCES in New York state with minimal pushback. According to multiple reports, ...

A 2013 rally outside the state Capitol in Albany, protesting passage of the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, otherwise known as the SAFE Act. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral ...

For the sixth time since its inception in 1982, the Siena College Research Institute’s Survey of U.S. Presidents finds that experts rank Franklin D. Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Abe Lincoln, Thomas ...

New York voters overwhelmingly approved $4.2 billion in new borrowing to fund the Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act by a margin of 59 percent to 29 percent, with 12 percent ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul signs legislation redefining rape to better protect sexual assault survivors. The bill expands upon what is legally considered rape to include forms of nonconsensual sexual contact ...

Amid statewide protests and walkouts by corrections officers, the Assembly Republican Conference held a press conference in the state Capitol on Monday, calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to take immediate ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has issued guidance to help New Yorkers avoid conflict with coyotes and protect their pets. “This is the time of year when New York’s resident ...

September 9, 2024 — Rochester, NY — Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the Student Lifeline Act, sponsored by Assemblywoman Sarah Clark, left and Sen. Samra Brouk, right, while announcing a new multimedia ...

Photo courtesy of the New York State Assembly, circa 1980 From left, Assemblyman Edward Griffith, U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and John Halloran. The Honorable Edward Griffith of Brooklyn, ...