“Passing an extender with no budget bills in print three days after a ‘deal’ was announced is the height of dysfunction. While the governor is running victory laps across the state, families, school districts, local municipalities, hospitals, direct...

“It has been more than two weeks since New York’s budget deadline and there is still no final agreement in sight. Meanwhile, school districts across the state are left scrambling as they prepare their budgets for the upcoming year in the dark. By...

“With the state budget now 17 days overdue, New York’s schools are planning for next year with no clear sense of what resources they will have available. They will be forced to construct and release to the public their budgets by next Tuesday, without...

“The Legislature may have bought itself more time today, but for those across New York trying to finalize their own budgets, that time is running out. “Schools, in particular, need clarity by April 22. Without knowing what’s in the final state budget,...

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) is proud to announce that the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators is now accepting applications for its 2025 scholarship program. These scholarships provide financial assistance to outstanding...

“Taxpayer-funded programs administered by Empire State Development repeatedly fail to produce real, measurable results. In fact, based on an independent report, only five of the twenty-five tax credit programs analyzed had a positive return on investment....

“The governor has presented what is, once again, her most costly budget ever. As reported, this year’s $252 billion proposal hikes state spending by nearly $8.6 billion and balloons our out-year deficit to more than $27 billion. While it is tempting...

“This ruling is a win for accountability and a long-overdue step away from Albany’s old, broken system that allowed politicians to police themselves. Ethics enforcement cannot be controlled by the same politicians it’s meant to oversee—that’s...

Ranking Minority member on the Assembly Ways and Means Committee Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square), Assemblyman Michael Durso (R-Massapequa Park) and Assemblyman Jarett Gandolfo (R,C-Sayville) issued the following statement in support of IBEW Local...