Reinvent Albany strongly supports Senator Krueger and Assemblymember Simone’s bill to strengthen the voice of the average New York voter by stopping “ballot bouncing.” Nobody, including mayors, should have the power to keep the public from voting on local ballot proposals.  The Krueger/Simone bill is numbered S9935/A5661-A. Note that the Legislature will not be in session […]

The groundbreaking for Micron’s plant in Clay, NY – just north of Syracuse’s city line – was scheduled for June 2024, but has been pushed back to November 2025 (Syracuse Post-Standard). New chip fabs are in most cases exempted by federal law from environmental review. However, the proposed fab has triggered a full review because […]

New York, Oct. 24, 2024 — Isaac White, a journalist for Indian Time in northern New York, was arrested in May while covering a demonstration opposing a proposed settlement of a land claim by the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe involving New York’s Barnhart Island. He’s not accused of doing anything illegal besides failing to disperse when police […]

Today, Reinvent Albany published an October 3, 2024 letter from advocacy groups to the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY) and the Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) asking them to publish the NY Social Equity Investment Fund and associated loan agreements, consistent with FOIL and basic expectations of transparency. We are still […]