Meet the Fall 2025 Legislative Gazette staff writers, comprised of SUNY New Paltz students: Our newsroom is powered by a ...

Meet the Spring 2025 Legislative Gazette staff, comprised of SUNY New Paltz students: Mya Noe Aung Mya Noe Aung is a staff ...

On March 11, Gov. Hochul announced her proposal for a bell-to-bell cell phone ban policy for public, charter schools and BOCES in New York state with minimal pushback. According to multiple reports, ...

A 2013 rally outside the state Capitol in Albany, protesting passage of the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, otherwise known as the SAFE Act. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral ...

After outrage over DOGE cuts and plummeting stock prices, a number of state lawmakers have asked the state comptroller to pull the plug on Elon Musk’s company, Tesla. Twenty-seven Assembly members ...

Senators Brad Hoylman and Jamaal Bailey introduced a bill they would enhance the free speech protections of New Yorkers by banning the use of art created by a defendant as evidence against them in a ...

Photo by Darren McGee, courtesy of the Governor’s Office Additionally, the law will require that any denial of a homeowner’s application to install an EV charger ...

Legislative Gazette photos by Lilly Sabella. Republican Assembly members presented from their Task Force on Human Trafficking report, hoping it leads to bipartisan support for legislation that helps ...

Amid statewide protests and walkouts by corrections officers, the Assembly Republican Conference held a press conference in the state Capitol on Monday, calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to take immediate ...

Since August 2022, DEA and other law enforcement agencies nationwide have seized brightly-colored fentanyl and fentanyl pills in 26 states. Dubbed “rainbow fentanyl,” this trend appears to be a new ...

John King, chancellor of the State University of New York system, signed a statement against higher education funding cuts, titled A Call for Constructive Engagement, along with many individual SUNY ...