As budget negotiations heat up in Albany, a group of legal aid advocates are making a push for legislation that would expand attorney student loan forgiveness.
Read MoreA group of Republicans in Albany this week filed a formal ethics complaint against New York’s top judge, claiming he went too far in advocating for the passage of a sentencing reform bill during a symposium in Queens last month.
Read MoreThe state legislature this week proposed boosting a civil legal services fund in its one-house budgets that attorneys say was severely underfunded in Governor Kathy Hochul’s executive budget proposal.
Read MoreDespite bar associations and legal organizations across the state urging the governor to expand a public fund for civil legal services, the governor made no changes to the budget item in the slate of amendments to her proposed financial plan released last week.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani threatened to dramatically raise property taxes in order to balance the city’s budget if the state does not raise taxes on New York’s wealthiest residents and corporations.
Read MoreOver 100 bar associations and legal organizations called on the governor to fully invest in a public fund for civil legal services, and warned staff cuts would follow if funding wasn’t secured.
Read MoreThe director of New York’s Office of Indigent Legal Services called on the state legislature to prevent the governor from taking over $120 million in funding from the office, and warned the funding sweep could have a dire impact on low-income New Yorkers’ ability to access free legal services.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul earlier this week cited a sprawling insurance fraud ring run by two Queens women when pushing for a slate of auto insurance reforms she hopes to pass in the state budget.
Read MoreGov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday selected former City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams as her running mate, tapping the Queens native to run for lieutenant governor in the 2026 gubernatorial race.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul on Friday said that she would propose legislation that would prevent local police in New York from partnering with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Read MoreCivil legal services for New Yorkers could be severely reduced in the coming years if the governor does not increase the spending authority for a public fund that keeps legal nonprofits afloat, advocates warned this week.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday the city is facing a “serious fiscal crisis” that rivals the Great Recession, blaming his predecessor for four years of shoddy budgeting practices that has left the city with a bleak financial outlook.
Read MoreLegal advocates say indigent legal service providers are in a “state of crisis,” yet a new report shows that tens of millions of dollars in already allocated state funds aren’t being used to support them.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump reminisced about his childhood in Queens during a nearly two-hour press briefing he gave on Tuesday.
Read MoreLeaders of the state court’s system on Tuesday called for a nearly $200 million budget increase to boost their spending up to $3.2 billion in the coming fiscal year.
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