2020 EXPLORED: The state budget
Pandemic knocked an ambitious state budget, but some funding hung on
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Environmental Protection Fund is safe from first round of state budget cuts
The state budget quarterly review did not include cuts to the Environmental Protection Fund, but more reviews are coming.
Cuomo: Mother Nature Bond Act is postponed
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pulled the $3 billion Restore Mother Nature Bond Act from the November ballot.
Betty Little appointed to ORDA board
Gov. Andrew Cuomo appointed state Sen. Betty Little to the Olympic Regional Development Authority. The state Senate confirmed her position on Thursday.
Uncharted territory
By Mike Lynch
Guides and outfitters throughout the Adirondacks face a more complex future that requires balancing health and financial risks.
Cuomo underlines coronavirus-related closures both upstate and down
Addressing his latest executive orders closing golf courses, some parks and boat launches, Cuomo said the state has to act as one during the pandemic.
‘Restore Mother Nature Bond Act’ leaps first hurdle, but more lie ahead as economy wilts
A clause in the legislation allows Robert Mujica, the state budget director, to kill the bond act before it heads to a public vote if the current economic tailspin means conditions aren't right this fall.
Coronavirus prohibitions reach into the Adirondacks
While there have been no known cases of coronavirus in the Adirondacks yet, tourism, education, businesses and more are feeling the impacts of new statewide policies aimed at protecting the public's health.
Cuomo budget prioritizes fight against climate change
"New York has to be the state that stands up and says once and for all, 'We have to do more and we have to do it faster, and let's pledge the largest amount of any state in the United States of America.'"
A $3 billion push for New York waters and environment
By Ry Rivard
During his major “state of the state” speech last week, the governor called the bond measure, which voters would see on the ballot this November, “the nation's most aggressive program for significant habitat restoration and flood reduction."