Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Saturday that the Assembly Democratic majority won't support saddling the city with additional CUNY costs in
the ongoing budget talks with Cuomo and the Senate Republicans, who support Cuomo's plan.
It's unclear whether Cuomo will push again for this appropriation in
ongoing budget talks.
Yesterday, however, it became clear what Heastie's price might have been, as word started circulating around the Capitol that certain elements of Cuomo's heretofore «my way or the highway» education reform plan had been dropped during
ongoing budget talks.
Not exact matches
AG Andrew Cuomo told reporters today that he is
talking «on an
ongoing basis» to «many of the parties» involved in the
budget battle, giving «advice» and answering legal questions and generally «
talking to everyone at every level.»
The DREAM Act, a measure that would provide undocumented immigrants with tuition assistance, once again fell out of the
budget talks amid
ongoing Republican opposition.
Stewart - Cousins, like Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, pointed to the
ongoing talks surrounding the state
budget, which is scheduled to be approved by Thursday.
Initially announcing meetings during the height of the
budget season,
talk quietly died away of the hearings, only for Heastie's office to announce them amid a vocal disagreement with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office over the
ongoing feud with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Some represent unions and other institutions with a stake in
ongoing state
budget talks, like New York State United Teachers.
New York City's
ongoing transit woes — and lack of funding to solve them — have loomed large in Albany
budget talks.
Buffalo stands to benefit in several ways in the final
budget deal, based on
talks that are
ongoing at the Capitol.
A spokesman for Governor Cuomo would only say,
budget negotiations «are
ongoing,» which is usually a sign that serious private
talks are taking place.
Talks are also still
ongoing as whether to include a statewide health exchange in the
budget and a controversial provision — sought by the teachers» unions — to forbid school officials from making teacher evaluations public.
A spokesman for Governor Cuomo would only say that «
budget negotiations are
ongoing,» which is usually a sign that serious private
talks are taking place.
Gov. David Paterson, who perhaps has the most to gain from the
ongoing state
budget stalemate, sent an e-mail today to supporters that slams lawmakers for wanting to fund property tax relief with borrowing and continues his tough
talk about the need for spending cuts over «fiscal tricks.»
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: «These walkouts, following our strike on
budget day, are part of an
ongoing campaign of industrial action and protests to put pressure on a government that is refusing to even
talk to us.
Revenues from the
ongoing Wall Street rally will be a «bright spot» heading into potentially difficult state
budget talks complicated by the federal tax overhaul, but New York government leaders shouldn't count on stock market gains to cover a deficit projected to be in the billions of dollars, the state's top fiscal officer said Tuesday.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) visited the North Queensview Homes Co-Op in Astoria last week, taking the time to
talk about the
ongoing city
budget process, the school system and a reported beef with Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria).
But one insider said with the possibility of the seat opening if Ortt is convicted, and now with Boyle possibly leaving, the Senate GOP could be under even more pressure to deliver a progressive victory in the
ongoing state
budget talks for the eight breakaway Democrats.
Trenberth was
talking about the
ongoing problem of getting Earth's energy
budget to balance, which is not something that happens all by itself, not about how to hide the «fact» that the Earth was cooling from the public.