Jeongyoon Han

2 weeks ago | weos.org | Jeongyoon Han |Jimmy Vielkind |Jon Campbell

New York state officials announced a tentative agreement Monday on a $254 billion budget that will prohibit most kids from using cellphones during the school day, send rebate checks to middle-class families, loosen evidence-sharing expectations for prosecutors in criminal cases and create a new charge for wearing a mask while committing a crime. Gov.

2 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Jeongyoon Han

New York state lawmakers didn't reach a budget deal on Friday, but got behind a proposal to loosen campaign finance rules and ease restrictions on larger donations in the state’s public matching funds program. Lawmakers who met behind closed doors on Friday were on board with changes that would allow candidates to match the first $250 of donations up to $1,000, according to three sources familiar with the negotiations who were not authorized to discuss them publicly.

2 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Jeongyoon Han

New York state lawmakers looked unlikely to reach a budget deal on Friday, but got behind a proposal to loosen campaign finance rules and ease restrictions on larger donations in the state’s public matching funds program. Lawmakers who met behind closed doors on Friday were on board with changes that would allow candidates to match the first $250 of donations up to $1,000, according to three sources familiar with the negotiations who were not authorized to discuss them publicly.

3 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Jeongyoon Han

Embroidered polo shirts have been $11.99 at Jack Yonally’s clothing store for the last eight years. Men’s underwear sell for $8.99. Yonally said those competitive prices have kept B. Lodge and Company in business since 1867, when it first opened its doors in downtown Albany. “I have customers that come in, and they might be in their 90s, and they say, ‘Well, since I was a little girl, I've shopped here. My mother used to bring me in here,’” he said. “That is very rewarding.”But times are changing.

3 weeks ago | wamc.org | Jeongyoon Han

Several state lawmakers say they want to undo aspects of New York’s controversial remaking of a popular home care program after the budget is finalized. More than 200,000 disabled people are enrolled in the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program. What’s changing is that instead of have 600 agencies share in processing payments to caregivers, the state Department of Health wants everyone to go through one – Public Partnerships LLC.