Rebecca C. Lewis
Senior State Politics Reporter at City & State NY
State politics at @CityandStateNY. She/her. Mom to Ivy the Capitol Dog. Pitches and dog pics to [email protected]. rfclewis.38 on Signal
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17 hours ago |
cityandstateny.com | Rebecca C. Lewis
Immigrant rights attorneys have taken aim at the Nassau County Police Department’s controversial agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, filing a lawsuit in state court arguing it violates existing state case law. Their argument relies heavily on a defining 2018 court decision, and it could have major implications for sanctuary policies in New York, even as state lawmakers finished their legislative year without passing new protections.
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1 day ago |
cityandstateny.com | Rebecca C. Lewis
In the second and final Democratic New York City mayoral primary debate, Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani directly called out former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for consistently mispronouncing his name. “The name is Mamdani. M-A-M-D-A-N-I,” he said. “You should learn how to say it because we gotta get it right.”Gov. Kathy Hochul may need to hear that message, too.
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2 days ago |
cityandstateny.com | Rebecca C. Lewis
Republicans in New York finally have a real socialist to rail against when attacking Democrats. And they wasted no time weaponizing Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic primary victory against Gov. Kathy Hochul ahead of next year’s gubernatorial race. Rep. Elise Stefanik, who is exploring a run for governor, released a statement about an hour after the polls closed – before former Gov. Andrew Cuomo even publicly acknowledged his loss. And she made it very clear whom she blamed for Mamdani’s victory.
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4 days ago |
cityandstateny.com | Rebecca C. Lewis
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Monday that the state’s public utility company would build a new nuclear power plant, the first in the United States in 15 years. She said it would deliver 1 gigawatt of clean energy to the state, which is struggling to meet its climate goals. But many environmentalists met the news with derision rather than celebration.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Rebecca C. Lewis
1 hour ago Hasbro to lay off 150 people, warned of tariff-related cuts in April PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WLNE) — Tariffs are taking some of the fun out of the toy business.Hasbro said it needs to cut costs and will be laying off about … 2 hours ago The Rhode Island City Famous For Its Edgy Art School Has Some Of The East Coast's Best Vintage Shopping In the fall, just as students move into their new dorms at Brown University or the Rhode Island School of Design — better known as "RISD" — and hug …...
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Rep. Mike Lawler grills Gov. Hochul about her past opposition to the Green Light Law that allows undocumented immigrants to get drivers licenses, a law she is now defending. Finally someone brought it up https://t.co/FxE8zOvVax
Also happening now: The NY Senate is debating the same bill. The Assembly has a head start, but has a longer debate time than the Senate. The race is on for who passes it first
Happening now: The NY Assembly is debating a 10-point bill with reforms for the state prison system.
The state Senate is debating this bill now and will soon pass in the upper chamber too
In a party line vote, the state Assembly votes to pass a bill to redraw upstate judicial district lines. Goal is to put the three cities (Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo) into their own single-county JDs separate from their rural surrounding counties.