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April 29, 2021
GALWAY Nearly a month after the state’s April 1 deadline for communities with police departments to submit mandatory police reform plans, the village of Galway in Saratoga County is the only Capital Region community that has yet to comply.
As of this week, about a dozen municipalities out of 494 with police departments have yet to submit plans to the state, and many of them small and rural, like tiny Galway. That number is down from nearly 40 agencies that hadn’t submitted their plans as of April 7, a week after they were due to be filed; state officials said they are contacting the communities that haven’t complied.
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Angered by funds sweep, advocates eye lock box legislation By Susan Arbetter City of Albany PUBLISHED 4:47 PM ET Apr. 20, 2021 PUBLISHED 4:47 PM EDT Apr. 20, 2021
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“I feel like Michael’s death doesn’t mean anything to this governor,” he told
Capital Tonight when asked for his reaction to the decision by Andrew Cuomo and the legislature to sweep most of an early tranche of opioid settlement funding into the general fund.
Avi’s son, Michael, took his own life after an eight-year ordeal during which he was diagnosed with an aggressive and painful strain of Crohn’s Disease. After several surgeries, multiple doctors began prescribing opioids for Michael, and he became addicted. When help was not available to him, he took his own life.
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ALBANY, N.Y. â Tax collections for State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2020-21 totaled $82.4 billion ââ â$3 billion higher than forecast by the state Division of the Budget (DOB) in the Amended Executive Budget Financial Plan in February (latest projections), and $6.8 billion higher than forecast in May 2020 (initial projections), according to the March State Cash Report released recently by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
Total tax collections for SFY 2020-21 were $513.3 million lower than the previous year.
âThe stateâs year-end financial position was significantly better than anticipated,â DiNapoli said.
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âWe face a long road to recovery, and the stateâs economy still faces serious challenges, both in the short-term and long-term. Better-than-anticipated tax collections, federal resources and new revenues in the recently adopted budget allow for important investments in critical programs and services, but state p