Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Albany with no public appearances or interviews yet announced.
The state Legislature is in session.
Today’s calendar is quite lengthy, and appears at the end of this post.
Headlines…
Rep. Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said beginning impeachment hearings against President Trump is among the “options on the table” after special counsel Robert Mueller announced the end of his Russia probe.
Mueller chose in the end to speak out, just this once if he has his way, to plead for a deliberate assessment of the facts from a deeply divided political system that shows no willingness to look at his findings through his dispassionate eyes.
Hours after Mueller broke his silence and said that Russia had sought to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Clinton said that the “systemic efforts to interfere” in the 2016 election “deserves the attention of every American.”
Clinton made the remarks as part of a commencement address yesterday afternoon to more than 2,400 Hunter College students inside New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand joined the chorus of Democratic presidential candidates calling for the House to begin impeachment proceedings against Trump, saying that Mueller made it clear that Congress should move forward with hearings on the president’s conduct.
Also on the impeachment train: Long Island Rep. Kathleen Rice.
Trump’s re-election camp launched a fundraising blitz just minutes after Mueller issued a statement saying he’s done with the Russia probe.
The White House asked the Navy to hide a destroyer named after the late Arizona Sen. John McCain in order to avoid having the ship appear in photographs taken while President Trump was visiting Japan this week, White House and military officials said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi strongly rebuked Facebook, saying the company’s refusal to take down altered videos of her demonstrated how the social network contributed to misinformation and enabled Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Vice President Mike Pence and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will discuss their countries’ joint dispute with China over Huawei during a meeting in Ottawa today, a senior US administration official said.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will return to her restaurant roots Friday, tending bar in the 14th Congressional District (location TBA) to raise support for a campaign to change how tipped employees are paid. But the approach she’ll champion helped to close at least one establishment where she used to work.
On the heels of a spate of anti-abortion legislation passed in recent months across the South, Louisiana lawmakers voted to ban the procedure after the pulsing of what becomes the fetus’s heart can be detected. The restriction is backed by the state’s Democratic governor.
A government watchdog group requested an investigation into the head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s air office, arguing the Trump appointee violated an ethics pledge by meeting with former clients.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo rapped lawmakers for dragging their heels in passing a new law that would lift the ban on surrogacy contracts — which would enable New Yorkers for the first time to pay a woman in the state to carry their baby to term through in-vitro fertilization.
The leader of the state Senate, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, says the pressures of forging agreements on major pieces of legislation might be getting to Cuomo. She was asked about disparaging comments that Cuomo made about the Senate in recent days.
NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams wants the city to require a “racial impact study” for all proposed rezoning plans to stem gentrification, while also saying an income report would accomplish the same goal.
The state Business Council of New York backed legislation giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, claiming it will be a boon to the economy.
The safeguards put in place by New York City to protect its water supply should be used as a model for the state, according to the NY Public Interest Research Group report released this week.
Facing the prospect of state legislation that could dramatically alter the landscape of rent regulation, a trio of prominent and deep-pocketed New York City real estate companies met privately with a group representing the interests of the affordable housing industry to explore a potential compromise.
Lawrence Porcari, the corporation counsel for Mount Vernon, was indicted on charges of engaging in a scheme to divert public funds to pay for the criminal legal defense of the city’s mayor, Richard Thomas.
The resurgence of a once-eradicated disease – measles – has made its way to Staten Island, according to city officials.
Cuomo announced the state is launching a Lake Ontario Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative (REDI) Commission.
A man was indicted on charges that he accepted more than $17,000 in bribes to award contracts for electrical work for the rebuilt World Trade Center from two contractors who allegedly conspired with him, state Attorney General Letitia James said.
Murders and shootings have dropped in New York City to levels not seen since the 1950s, but the spike in shootings in North Brooklyn over the first three months of the year shows that police have struggled to contain pockets of violence.
Politicians and advocates rallied in lower Manhattan in support of a federal bill that would permanently authorize the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act.
Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau is nearing his 100th birthday, but he still continues to work at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He says it’s too late to retire.
A private school in Westchester County where a teacher allegedly held a mock slave auction of black students said it reached an agreement with the New York attorney general to improve its approach to diversity.
Former SUNY nano czar Attorneys for Kaloyeros filed the appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Much of it boils down to one argument: That prosecutors used a “fatally flawed” legal concept in the case.
Everyone pretty much agreed on one thing during yesterday’s state Senate hearing on possible alternatives for education funding: Property taxes are universally unpopular but they will likely continue as a mainstay of school support in New York.
A standoff between state lawmakers and the agency tasked with investigating sexual harassment claims in New York continued this week.
New York City’s potter’s field, which holds the remains of more than 1 million people, could become more accessible to the public with two bills being introduced today in the City Council.
NYC’s proposed fur ban got a high profile backer – legendary Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA.
NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson conceded that he underestimated the opposition his proposed ban of fur apparel sales in the Big Apple would get — adding he’s now planning to re-work it to give fur manufacturers more time to adjust.
For the second year in a row, the number of people known as chronically homeless, or “unsheltered,” has fallen in NYC.
Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, pioneering transgender activists who were at the vanguard of the gay rights movement, will be immortalized in a monument that may be placed down the street from the Stonewall Inn, the city said.
A western New York school district is moving ahead with plans to use facial recognition technology.
A federal judge blocked New Jersey’s attempt to pull out of a bistate agency that polices organized crime along the region’s waterfront.
Education, public safety and the Cohoes Community Center were issues touched upon at yesterday’s tense — and at times personal — mayoral debate.
A suburban New York homicide suspect has been placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
Lawmakers want Syracuse City Hall to fork over $750,000 to fix pensions for three firefighters and a cop who have spent years in the wrong pension tier thanks to some botched paperwork. But a top aide for Mayor Ben Walsh said the city shouldn’t have to pay for the mistake.
Approximately 75 people attended a public hearing on a spate of deaths at the Erie County Holding Center, and most urged the County Legislature to create a panel of specialists to advise the sheriff as he runs the facility.
Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who just turned 75, said he would like to lead the Big Apple again, joking: “I’d still be younger than Joe Biden.”
New Yorkers, get ready for another chance to marvel at Manhattanhenge.
Perry’s Ice Cream, based outside Buffalo, is making a big push into Ohio.
Happening today…
At 8:30 a.m., NYC Transit President Andy Byford speaks at the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Roundtable Series, TD Bank office, 125 Park Ave., Manhattan.
Also at 8:30 a.m., State Education Department Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and state Sen. Shelley Mayer take part in The Business Council of New York State’s annual Business and Education Forum, Albany Capital Center, 55 Eagle St., Albany.
At 9 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Education meets, Room 510, state Capitol, Albany.
Also at 9 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation meets, Room 123, state Capitol, Albany.
Also at 9 a.m., a group of nonprofit organizations and health care advocates hold a rally to urge the New York City Council to restore funding to a program that can provide immediate relief to New Yorkers struggling with medical debt, City Hall steps, Manhattan.
At 9:15 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse meets, Room 813, Legislative Office Building, Albany.
At 9:30 a.m., the state Senate New York City Education Committee meets, Room 801, Legislative Office Building, Albany.
Also at 9:30 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation meets, Room 307, Legislative Office Building, Albany.
Also at 9:30 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs meets, Room 807, Legislative Office Building, Albany.
Also at 9:30 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Elections meets, Room 904, Legislative Office Building, Albany.
Also at 9:30 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Higher Education meets, Room 913, Legislative Office Building, Albany.
Also at 9:30 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Transportation meets, Room 708, Legislative Office Building, Albany.
Also at 9:30 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Cities meets, Room 123, state Capitol, Albany.
At 9:45 a.m., state Senate Committee on Domestic Animal Welfare meets, Room 813, Legislative Office Building, Albany.
At 10 a.m., Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector join Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz to rally in advance of a City Council hearing on the planned light rail line, City Hall steps, Manhattan.
Also at 10 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development meets, Room 123, state Capitol, Albany.
Also at 10 a.m., Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan, Common Council President Pro Tempore Richard Conti, and representatives from the Pride Center of the Capital Region, In Our Own Voices, Inc., Waterworks Pub, and ROCKS unveil the Central Avenue crosswalk painted in recognition of Pride Month, Albany.
Also at 10 a.m., the Senate Committee on Consumer Protection meets, Room 901, Legislative Office Building, Albany.
Also at 10 a.m., the NYC Council Committees on Transportation, Health, and Parks and Recreation meet, Committee Room, City Hall, Manhattan.
At 10:30 a.m., state Assemblyman Michael Blake participates in the #HALTSolitary campaign press conference, fourth floor, state Capitol, Albany.
At 11 a.m., NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Friends of the Small Business Jobs Survival Act rally to support the small-business jobs, City Hall steps, Manhattan.
Also at 11 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Finance meets, Room 332, state Capitol, Albany.
Also at 11 a.m., the NYC Council on Task Force on BQX meets, Council chamber, City Hall, Manhattan.
Also at 11 a.m., the state Senate is in session, Senate chamber, state Capitol, Albany.
Also at 11 a.m., legislators and advocates will call for New York to combat poverty by increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for working families with children and expanding the Child Tax Credit to cover families with very young children, Assembly stairs, 3rd Fl., state Capitol, Albany.
At 11:45 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul delivers remarks at the Capital Region Chamber’s 28th Annual Women of Excellence Luncheon, Albany Marriott, 189 Wolf Rd., Manhattan.
At noon, state Assemblyman David Weprin speaks at the Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration hosted by Assembly members Ron Kim and Yuh-Line Niou, Legislative Office Building, Albany.
Also at noon, state Sen. Zellnor Myrie and voting rights advocates join together to push for automatic voter registration, Million Dollar Staircase, third floor, state Capitol, Albany.
Also at noon, state Senate Committee on Labor meets, Room 123, state Capitol, Albany.
Also at noon, the state Senate Committee on Health meets, Room 124, state Capitol, Albany.
At 1 p.m., the state Senate Committee on Elections holds a public hearing on the creation of an automatic voter registration system, Van Buren Hearing Room A, Legislative Office Building, second floor, Albany.
At 2:30 p.m., Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, New York City Councilman Paul Vallone and others attend a rally to endorse Katz for Queens district attorney, P.S. 169, 18-25 212th St., Queens.
At 3 p.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray will make an announcement about She Built NYC, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., Room 101, Manhattan.
At 5:30 p.m., state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli hosts an Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration, Essex Street Market, 88 Essex St., Manhattan.
At 6 p.m., Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. attends the Bay Ridge Democrats Spring Gala, Dyker Beach Golf Course, 86th Street and Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn.
Also at 6 p.m., Weprin participates in Queens Borough President Melinda Katz’s Queens town hall meeting on gun violence, Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd., Queens.
At 7 p.m., tenants of the Upstate-Downstate Housing Alliance, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and state Sen. Jamaal Bailey host a town hall to discuss measures at the state and federal levels to protect tenants from rent hikes and eviction, The Sanz, 815 Allerton Ave., the Bronx.