Reinvent Albany Statement on Governor Hochul’s 2026 State of the State Speech   Good, Bad and Absent from Governor’s Election-Year Speech (and our very short list of proposals)   Good  Bad Absent Comments on Select Items Funding to Increase Number of MTA Co-Response Teams Reinvent Albany thanks Governor Hochul for further expanding the MTA’s highly […]

January 9, 2026 The Honorable Kathy HochulGovernor of New York State RE: Upholding the Relevance and Importance of COELIG Dear Governor Hochul, We write today as organizations that have consistently advocated for a robust, independent, and fully functioning statewide ethics commission. In that vein, we are writing to urge you to promptly fill commissioner vacancies […]

January 8, 2026 The Honorable Kathy HochulGovernor of New York State Re: Make MTA’s SCOUT program permanent, and expand it to 20 teams in your FY 2026-2027 State Budget Dear Governor Hochul,  We write to express our enthusiastic support for the MTA’s successful Subway Co-Response Outreach Teams (SCOUT) program, and ask you to make SCOUT […]

New guidance from the NY Department of State confirms that the state’s LLC Transparency Act now requires only foreign registered LLCs to disclose their beneficial owners – and only .04% of LLCs in the U.S. are foreign   In December 2025, Governor Hochul vetoed a bill amending the NY LLC Transparency Act so it no […]