Hochul releases $233B proposed state budget
By Gwendolyn Craig
January 16, 2024
State spending up $4 billion from what Hochul proposed last year.
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Gwen is an award-winning journalist covering environmental policy for the Explorer since January 2020. She is a member of the Legislative Correspondents Association of New York. Gwen has worked at various news outlets since 2015. She has a master's degree in journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Contact her at (518) 524-2902 or gwen@adirondackexplorer.org. Sign up for Gwen’s newsletter here.
By Gwendolyn Craig
January 16, 2024
State spending up $4 billion from what Hochul proposed last year.
By Gwendolyn Craig
January 9, 2024
The governor proposed initiatives that could impact Adirondack Park communities including repurposing closed state prisons for housing.
By Gwendolyn Craig
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Compromises made for farms
By Gwendolyn Craig
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State legislators will return to Albany on Jan. 3 with a slate of Adirondack Park-related initiatives jockeying for attention and funds.
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The APA made news for many of its policy decisions, court cases, as well as its plans for $29 million in state funds for a new headquarters.
By Gwendolyn Craig
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State Sen. Mark Walczyk, whose district includes part of the Adirondack Park, will deploy to Kuwait for nine months beginning the end of January.
By Gwendolyn Craig
December 22, 2023
The DEC is withholding almost $1 million designated in the state budget for Hamilton and Essex counties’ solid waste expenses.
By Gwendolyn Craig
December 22, 2023
Gov. Kathy Hochul released initial findings of a state battery fire safety working group, with recommendations to come in 2024.
By Gwendolyn Craig
December 21, 2023
There were a number of sales, easements and land management projects across the 6-million-acre Adirondack Park.
By Gwendolyn Craig
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Money from a $4.2 billion environmental bond act voters passed last fall is starting to flow, but so far, not to the Adirondacks.