Reforming - and Not Reforming - the Budget Process
Each summer, State Assemblymember and Brooklyn Democratic party boss Vito Lopez throws a massive summer picnic, busing 4,000 senior citizens from Bushwick to Sunken Meadow State Park in Long Island for live music, dancing, and a steak and chicken dinner.
It is also one of the most […]

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Silver’s law firm seeks to represent people hurt at state parks
ALBANY, N.Y. Government watchdogs are asking why the personal injury law firm where state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver practices is pitching its services to people injured at New York parks.
Silver has a say over how state parks are run and financed.
But his spokesman says Silver […]

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Redrawing district lines
Most state lawmakers have a stranglehold on their seats in the Legislature by design. It`s called redistricting.
The way redistricting works in this state is that after the U.S. census results are tabulated every 10 years, state lawmakers redraw district lines for themselves and congressional representatives. To no one`s surprise, those lines […]

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