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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged a crowd of several hundred union members and others in Solvay on Wednesday to demand their state legislators pass a $ 15 an hour minimum wage this month as part of the state budget.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano says he hasn't formally nominated acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter as top cop — even though he said he would nearly five months ago — because he hasn't met with legislators tasked with voting on the appointment.

Much of the discussion centered on campaigns for the U.S. House and Senate, but state races came up constantly as well, and for good reason: the state legislators and governors elected in three short months will oversee the single most important political act in our system of government, the redrawing of state and congressional district lines based on the results of the census.

Cerberus Capital Management, the hedge fund with headquarters at 875 Third Avenue, are as guilty as the criminals who sell guns on the black market and the legislators who refuse to fight for stricter gun control, said activists who converged at the firm's offices this past month.

Earlier this month, Astorino and the Democrat - led Board of Legislators unanimously agreed to sign 60 acres of county property — known as the North 60 — to Fareri Associates for 99 years.

The inauguration was the culmination of a 14 - month journey for Curran, a two - term county legislator who entered politics in 2010 as a Baldwin school board member.

After less than three months, Albany Legislator Gary Domalewicz may be about to lose his new role as majority leader as a push is under way for legislators to build up resources to make them more responsive to county citizens.

Cuomo, who created the commission nine months earlier as part of his pledge to root out corruption in Albany, abruptly shut it down after he got legislators to agree to limited campaign finance reforms.

Several months ago our newspaper, through this column, successfully lobbied our Republican County Executive, Ed Day, as well as our Democratic State Legislators, Ken Zebrowski and Ellen Jaffee, to write letters to President Donald Trump, urging him to supply the 50 percent federal backing needed for the $ 24 billion Gateway project (with New York and New Jersey splitting the remaining 50 %).

As state legislators are facing recalls in Wisconsin, the state's congressional delegation also has much to be concerned about in the coming months.

The 2017 budget, which was passed by the Board of Legislators on Monday by a slim margin of 10 - 7, and modifies a previous budget submitted to the legislative chamber by Astorino last month, will retain the county executive's proposed flat tax rate, but will also add four additional engineering positions to the county's depleted Department of Public Works roster, in addition to injecting $ 1 million to the county's Title XX child care program as a result of legislators» Legislators on Monday by a slim margin of 10 - 7, and modifies a previous budget submitted to the legislative chamber by Astorino last month, will retain the county executive's proposed flat tax rate, but will also add four additional engineering positions to the county's depleted Department of Public Works roster, in addition to injecting $ 1 million to the county's Title XX child care program as a result of legislators» legislators» amendments.

Financial disclosure forms for every state legislator who was in office as of May were released by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics earlier this month, including 185 who were in office in 2014.

As part of the $ 2.8 billion budget reduction plan legislators were poised to vote on, the state will likely hold up for six months millions of dollars in HEAL NY funds to Flushing Hospital, Jamaica Hospital, Elmhurst Hospital, Mt. Sinai Hospital in Astoria and Forest Hills Hospital, according to Stavisky.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's insistence that he needs to lay off teachers to balance next year's budget came under mounting challenge from parents, legislators and experts as budget negotiations entered their final month.

As New York's state legislators huddle behind closed doors to select a temporary replacement for the disgraced former attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman, they will be choosing more than just a six - month placeholder for the state's top legal job.

Madison County legislators decided late last month to wait and see what New York state does, as any laws or regulations the state adopts would preempt a local law, officials said.

An assistant U.S. attorney for 4 1⁄2 years, Sini, in his short Suffolk career, spent 14 months as a little - known law enforcement aide to County Executive Steve Bellone, and narrowly lost a 2015 campaign for county legislator, despite the best efforts of both Bellone and Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer and $ 152,000 in campaign contributions to put him over the top.

The Common Core Implementation Panel, which he first proposed during his State of the State address last month, includes both national experts as well as state legislators, parents, educators, and business and community leaders.

This is the same legislator who resigned his position last month as majority leader to more fully devote himself to the troubled East Ramapo school district where he will travel to the corrupt government in Albany and oppose the appointment of a veto - proof monitor.

After months of advocacy meetings with state legislators, as well as grassroots engagement from parents and educators, the bill died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

While legislators are going into special session, cities and towns across Connecticut are cutting local public school programs as a result of the inadequate education funding that is part of the state budget that was agreed upon in a deal between Governor Dannel Malloy and Democratic legislators earlier this month.

Hot on the heels of the weekend's awareness rousing, October is an important month for thousands as they lobby legislators, another important tenet of any effective campaign.