With a 23-percent reduction of the emergency program, Paul Tonko said, there will be more reliance on states. That, in turn, he said, would lead to “a huge tax increase” on properties because it “then filters down to the local level.” The tax cut, Tonko said, is “spending dollars on billionaires for a bonanza tax cut.”

About 50 protesters — union leaders, research scientists, health workers, and students — chanted as they marched through the University at Albany’s uptown campus and then picketed along Washington Avenue on April 8, a national day of action to oppose the Trump administration’s cuts to research, health care, and higher education.

Supervisor Peter Barber went through a long list of events happening in town near Earth Day, which is on Tuesday, April 22, this year.

According to data graphed by the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services, shooting incidents involving injury in Albany County peaked in 2020 at over 120; similarly, the number of shooting victims hit peaked at 100 in 2020 while the number of people killed by guns in Albany County peaked in 2021 at nearly 20. By 2024, those numbers for Albany County had declined to about 60 people injured or hit and fewer than 10 people killed.

 Laviano is naming his newly completed complex on Western Avenue the Joseph J. Laviano Plaza in honor of his father.

In the end, the draft budget restored 70 percent of the first-grade teaching assistants. It also restored two-tenths of a librarian’s position at Altamont Elementary School, another cut that had spurred protests from a committed Altamont contingent.

ALBANY COUNTY — Governor Kathy Hochul is urging New Yorkers to prepare for snow, freezing rain, and ice beginning Friday night and continuing through Sunday for parts of the North Country, Mohawk Valley, and Capital District.

The proposed levy increase is 2.41 percent, which is just under the state-set tax cap, meaning a simple majority will pass the budget. 

There will be four seats open for the May 20 election with the top three vote-getters winning three-year terms and the fourth-place candidate filling out Judy Slack’s term, which ran through June 30, 2026.

Federal maps in the 1930s, Wanda Willingham said, “redlined housing markets and said they were too risky for investment … Generations of people were disconnected, disenfranchised, and deprived of family wealth by buying homes.”