New York’s proposed Medical Aid in Dying Act would allow terminally ill, mentally capable adults who have been given six months or less to live to take their own lives with a cocktail of pharmaceutical drugs. spectrumlocalnews.com/politics/2024/…

Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York legislative leaders have come to a preliminary agreement on a conceptual $237 billion state budget deal. spectrumlocalnews.com/politics/2024/…

Hochul and Budget Director Blake Washington explain their decision to transition the CDPAP program to one fiscal intermediary.

Disabled New Yorkers who rely on the program are upset about the company the state could select for the job and say it will impact access to care.

There’s an ongoing scrutiny of Medicaid spending… but Hochul says Consumer Directed Personal Assistance program will change to one state Fiscal Intermediary like California after program costs have ⬆️over 1,200%

Hochul says it will save $500M per year

Several items on healthcare attached.

Also, Hochul’s request for pre-natal leave is also included in the budget.

Rockefeller Institute “In the long-term, it just doesn’t make sense to keep paying for empty seats in classrooms,” Hochul says. “We can’t continue to fund our schools based on politics.”

Budget commits $36B to education

The state Education Department will study N.Y.’s foundation aid formula w/ Rockefeller Institute after a fight all session over the “hold harmless” provision in the formula that ensures schools don’t receive less funding regardless of population loss

Governor Kathy Hochul Looks like school aid isn’t getting cut—this year—instead there’s a $1.3B increase to a total of $36B.

“Now is the right time to take this on and begin to fix the way we fund schools,” Governor Kathy Hochul says she has a deal w/ NYS Education Department & Rockefeller Institute to study funding formula.

Hochul doesn’t get into the details of the deal on tenant protections, but says it was done after 2 years of talks that will protect tenants from price gouging without undercutting the ability to build more units.

Governor Kathy Hochul Carl E. Heastie Sen. Stewart-Cousins “I’ve always supported protections and efforts to keep renewers safely housed,” Governor Kathy Hochul calls the below bullet points to as the “agreement” on tenant protection policy.

For housing in the rest of the state, there’s a new statewide tax incentive for multi-family housing to boost construction.

Also $500M to build 15K new housing on state-owned sites

The list of things Hochul says were on her checklist, and accomplished in the $237B N.Y. budget.

“We got it done,” she said.

.Governor Kathy Hochul is holding a Red Room announcing a handshake agreement of the 2025 N.Y. budget.

“Each of us came to the table with really strongly held beliefs, but then in the interest of our state, we came together,” Hochul says. “…You don’t always see that here.”

'We lost two heroes': Police on Tuesday afternoon identified the two members of law enforcement who were shot and killed while responding to a call in Salina Sunday night. specne.ws/YPTkQu

Hochul is announcing a conceptual budget agreement at 4:45 p.m., or broad strokes of a handshake deal as she did last year.

There’s still some details to be worked out, including cuts to Medicaid and this program. The Assembly scheduled to conference it tonight.

For about 30 mins, The Center for Disability Rights advocates yelled outside offices of Governor Kathy Hochul’s staff demanding to meet with Angela Profeta, Hochul’s Human Services & Mental hygiene secretary over proposed changes to the Consumer Directed Personal Care services in the budget.

.Governor Kathy Hochul is set to announce a handshake budget deal at 4:45.

But details on the deal aren’t done yet.

Housing still open, as the last min addition of mayoral control allowed some give on tenant protections.

The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation into the deadly collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, according to a person familiar with the matter. spectrumlocalnews.com/news/2024/04/1…

By this time last year, we'd already had our first 80-degree day.

We're still waiting for our first this season & we're going to have to wait a bit longer.

No major late spring or early summer warmth expected in the near term per the Climate Prediction Center Outlook.

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Jeffries, in a 'Dear Colleague' letter, demands action on foreign aid:

'Extreme MAGA Republicans are out of excuses. The Ukrainian people are out of time.'

'This is a Churchill or Chamberlain moment ... Will factions within the GOP majority continue to appease [aggression]?'