We want to be optimists, so last week we wrote a list of five ways to fix NY’s $11 billion in annual corporate subsidies in the budget. Did the Governor include them in her State of the State? No – though, truth be told, the Governor had some good ideas. Unfortunately, there were also some […]

Half of bills introduced in only one house and have no chance of becoming law   New York State legislators introduce bills for a variety of reasons: They’re personally interested, they want to appease special interests, donors, and constituents, or they want press. But passing bills is hard. Reinvent Albany crunched the data from the […]

MEMO OF OPPOSITION   A551 (Pheffer Amato)   Exempts police officers from congestion pricing tolls   TITLE OF BILLAn act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing a central business district toll exemption for certain police officers. STATEMENT OF OPPOSITIONReinvent Albany strongly opposes this bill, which exempts off-duty NYPD officers who […]

Reissues Memos of Support for Four Bills   Reinvent Albany thanks the State Senate for its efforts to continuously improve state and local boards of election. To celebrate the State Senate’s passage of pro-democracy legislation, Reinvent Albany reissued four memos of support for election bills today: We urge the Assembly to pass all of the […]