After mounting opposition, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration is backing off a last-minute budget proposal that would change the way New York counts the impact of greenhouse gases to satisfy the state’s climate law.

Source: https://gothamist.com/news/hochul-administration-backs-off-last-minute-change-to-ny-climate-law

But the Legislature tweaked the burial bill this year to address some of Ms. Hochul’s concerns about the rights of private property owners and she signed it, bringing New York into the modern era of Native grave protection.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/nyregion/montaukett-tribe-recognition-ny.html

Families for Safe Streets protested outside Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office in New York in December 2022, before she signed a bill that increases funding for safe streets initiatives.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/nyregion/new-york-new-jersey-connecticut-suburbs-traffic-deaths.html

Hochul’s statement follows a day after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the state had acquired 2 million misoprostol tablets.

Source: https://www.chiangraitimes.com/news/states-stockpile-abortion-pill-misoprostol-in-response-to-fda-ruling/

I call on Hochul’s Democratic allies in the Legislature to stand, for once, for the parents and children instead of the far-left activists, who wield far too much power over Democrats’ political campaigns.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/02/26/republicans-will-help-pass-hochuls-charter-school-plan-its-a-no-brainer/

If approved, Hochul’s budget — due April 1 — would allow up to 106 more charter schools throughout the nation’s largest school system, where 275 now operate.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/02/22/nyc-parents-speak-out-on-how-charter-schools-changed-their-kids-lives/

In terms of other issues the poll covered, a 58% majority expressed support for Hochul’s proposed statewide ban on flavored tobacco, while 34% opposed the idea.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/03/27/new-yorkers-overwhelmingly-support-bail-changes-ahead-of-state-budget-deadline-poll/

New York State Senate Democrats eventually found LaSalle to be too conservative, causing a major rift in Hochul’s own party; Hochul, a moderate Democrat herself, was pitted against both the left wing of her party and the Senate at large.

Source: https://oracle.newpaltz.edu/first-black-chief-justice-confirmed/

Somewhere in the vetting process, Hochul managed to overlook the judge’s record on several hot button issues, including abortion, that happen to be critically important to Hochul’s constituency.

Source: https://abovethelaw.com/2023/01/kathy-hochuls-commitment-to-lasalle-chief-judge-nomination-enters-hijacking-martin-luther-king-day-stage/

The proposal, suggested in an Aug. 9 letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration, came as New York struggles to handle the estimated 100,000 migrants who have arrived in the city since last year after crossing the southern U.S. border.

Source: https://thegrio.com/2023/08/19/nyc-migrant-proposes-housing-migrants-former-jail/