Articles on the Constitution by Michael Gormley
News Coverage:
Monday, January 7, 2013
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An innovative proposal expected in the New York Legislature would take some revenue from casino promoters and opponents who spend millions in campaign contributions and create a fund designed to reduce the influence of...
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Friday, September 7, 2012
The most independent member of the state's ethics board quit on Friday hours after he called for a federal probe into what he said was corruption on it.
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Monday, April 2, 2012
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York's powerful ethics board won't release any record of its secret vote to hire a longtime aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as its $148,000-a-year executive director in a decision that raises wider concerns among good-...
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Monday, April 2, 2012
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York's powerful ethics board won't release any record of its secret vote to hire a longtime aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as its $148,000-a-year executive director in a decision that raises wider concerns among good-...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo is willing to accept the Legislature's latest redistricting proposals, with conditions, and the Democrat is ready to force a late budget if lawmakers don't agree to his new pension proposal as part of the...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
The record of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first online chat with New Yorkers shows the Democrat skipped an onslaught of increasingly pointed questions about hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and some other thorny issues and criticism.
Relevant because hydrofracking is one of the foremost environmental concerns in New York today.
Friday, February 10, 2012
A provision in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget amendments could greatly expand the power of state and local governments to borrow money with less independent oversight while potentially avoiding approval from voters or the Legislature,...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
The organizers of the group called Citizens' Committee for an Effective Constitution say it's a key many elected officials over 45 years — most of whom ran as "reformers" — and the special interests who fund them don...
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Monday, January 16, 2012
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the coming weeks will introduce a proposal that good-government advocates have long said would transform New York politics like nothing else: voluntary public funding of political campaigns.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Redistricting is the arcane process done every 10 years with new census data to redraw election districts that comply with population shifts, voter rights laws, and the state and federal constitutions. Good-government groups have long criticized it...
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