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happy new year to all. may it be a great one for all of us. first to the reverend and the were, i thought they extraordinary in their blessings and indication. let s give them a round of applause. [applause] gov. cuomo: before i begin, i would like to acknowledge my partners in progress here with me on the stage today. we start with lieutenant governor kathy hogle. hochul. new york state comptroller thomas dinapoli. attorney general eric snyderman. senate majority leader john flanagan. speaker carl he s deep. leader client. leader brian cole. we had with us today our court of appeals, judges, and the great chief judge. let s give them a round of applause. ,t s not that they are unhappy the judges. it s by protocol they don t applaud for anything. i didn t realize that the first couple of years, but i now got it. another round of applause for not applauding for anything. [applause] my friends, looking back to 2017, it was a tough year by any measure. also, new yorkers ....
give a warm welcome to andrew cuomo. thank you very much. welcome to albany. happy new year to all. may it be a great one for all of us. first to the reverend and the were, i thought they extraordinary in their blessings and indication. let s give them a round of applause. [applause] gov. cuomo: before i begin, i would like to acknowledge my partners in progress here with me on the stage today. we start with lieutenant governor kathy hogle. hochul. new york state comptroller thomas dinapoli. attorney general eric snyderman. senate majority leader john flanagan. speaker carl he s deep. leader client. leader brian cole. we had with us today our court of appeals, judges, and the great chief judge. let s give them a round of applause. ,t s not that they are unhappy the judges. it s by protocol they don t applaud for anything. i didn t realize that the first couple of years, but i now got it. another round of applause for not applauding for anything. [applause] my friends, ....
all of us. rabbi, i reverend and thought were extraordinary. let s give them a round of applause. [applause] before i begin i would like to knowledge my partners in progress who are here with me on the stage today. lieutenant governor, let s give her a great round of laws. eaker carl he s deep. leader client. leader brian cole. we had with us today our court of appeals, judges, and the great chief judge. let s give them a round of applause. ,t s not that they are unhappy the judges. it s by protocol they don t applaud for anything. i didn t realize that the first couple of years, but i now got it. another round of applause for not applauding for anything. [applause] my friends, looking back to 2017, it was a tough year by any measure. also, new yorkers rose to the occasion. we had frightening incidents of terrorism in new york city, as mayor bill de blasio well knows. we also have the best police and first responders in the country. and some of them are here today. let ....
site at booktv.org. okay. i do double duty here. so i am welcoming steve villano who is next, and he is a native of brooklyn, new york, and is the former head of governor mario cuomo s new york city press office with decades of experience in public service, public education, public health and is the ceo of several national and nonprofit organizations. i m just going to skip to the inhere. he has written quite a bit, there s a long list of things that he has written. he has authored major pieces on ethnic stereotyping in ambassador magazine, he also has talked about actors like stanley tucci and john turturro, he s a labor journalist for the national education association for a decade. he has won numerous awards, and he has a digital poetry book called we haiku. 9 the list goes on and on. he has won various awards like the digital book publishers of america in 2014, and if there s anything i ve left out, steve, please [inaudible conversations] [laughter] thank yo ....
it will inspire you you are in new york new york this is my first runway. you looked fabulous. you looked really good. in the front row. they were cheering for you. on my computer screen these free microsoft pictures, the picture that i had, i thought at first it was this rolling green hill, the sun, that was a farm. where i grew up. this is where you grew up. but it was exactly why he stiegler in this room, you were the farmer, you created this ecosystem, you made the soil right, figured out how to make it rain and figured out the magic, you have the seeds that have this great and intensity. i wish i deserved the credit but it is a self generating group. you have a lot to do this morning. [applause] to meet lloyd blank find ten years ago, 10,000 small businesses. [applause] two things i learned, when is the power of great ideas and the second is what happens when places like community colleges partner with an incredible company like goldman sa ....