Tag: James Gormley
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Cuomo’s 10 Reasons the GOP Tax Plan Plagues New Yorkers
Gov. Andrew Cuomo today outlined 10 key reasons why the GOP tax plan will deliver an “economic death blow” to New York and the nation. Additionally, the governor is calling on the New York Congressional delegation, including the four representatives who voted for the tax bill in the House of Representatives, to vote against the…
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In Its First Act of 2015, Senate Passes Women’s Equality Bills
Package excludes abortion re-codification, angering some Dems From Legislative Gazette By James Gormley In its first major legislative act of 2015, the State Senate passed an eight-point Women’s Equality Agenda on Jan. 12 that does not include the much-debated measure to re-codify state abortion laws. The eight bill package — sponsored by republicans and members…
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Access to Data Enables Journalists To Speak Truth to Power
By Gianna Canevari When students in Prof. Rob Miraldi’s Muckraking Journalism class wanted to expose the flaws in the end-of-semester Student Evaluations of Instruction (SEIs), they utilized a little-known but powerful law. After repeated requests to access SEIs and proving that the evaluations were in fact public documents, the students were granted access to two…