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Democratic lawmakers regroup for 2022 home care worker pay hike push
After coming up short in this year’s budget negotiations to get a minimum wage increase for
Wage increase for home care workers on hold – for now
April 22, 2021 - Senate Aging Committee Chair Rachel May walks us through the effort to secure a raise
Relaxed state COVID-19 guidelines not changing much for older students
April 22, 2021 - Federal and state health officials may have relaxed social distancing guidelines for schools, but New
Poll: Partisan divide over government action to combat climate change
April 22, 2021 - To celebrate Earth Day, we're turning to Siena College Research Institute Director Don Levy for
Deal with New York sets up Indian Point’s retirement
April 22, 2021 - One of the final obstacles to the decommissioning of the Indian Point nuclear power plant
Sen. Rachel May recalls working for Walter Mondale in ’84
April 21, 2021 - In a bonus episode of The Capitol Pressroom, we spoke with state Sen. Rachel May, a
Finger Lakes power plant is ground zero for environmentalists’ latest fight
April 21, 2021 - We talked with Seneca Lake Guardian Vice President Yvonne Taylor about the campaign by environmentalists
Curtain peeled back on state’s opaque vetting of COVID-19 vaccines
April 21, 2021 - For months, very little was known about the deliberations of the state task force empowered
Upstate lawmakers secure massive increase in civil legal services funding
April 21, 2021 - Sen. Sean Ryan, a Buffalo-area Democrat, explains how upstate New York flexed its muscles during
