Good morning and back to work after a gorgeous final full weekend of August.
Happening today:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Albany, with nothing public planned.
At 11 a.m., Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will attend an event featuring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. University at Buffalo, 103 Center for the Arts, Buffalo.
Also at 11 a.m., Attorney General Letitia James will visit the state fair and visit the dairy products building. Building 17, State Fairgrounds, Syracuse.
At 11:06 a.m., Hochul is a guest on WCNY’s The Capitol Pressroom to discuss Women’s Equality Day.
At 11:30 a.m., James will visit the Horticulture Building.
At 12:15 p.m., James will deliver remarks at the Fallen Officers Memorial, Veterans Memorial Phase II.
At 2 p.m., James will participate in the Special Olympics Bocce Ball Tournament, New York Expo Center.
At 7 p.m., New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is live on NY1’s Inside City Hall.
Headlines:
A lawyer for former U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman denied on Sunday accusations leveled in a lawsuit that the Queens Democrat is a sexual “predator” who violated a teenager at a Boy Scout camp five decades ago.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was heckled about the Eric Garner case during a live CNN townhall on Sunday evening.
The town hall event may be de Blasio last chance to climb in the polls and qualify for next month’s debate.
Cycling advocates, upset with an uptick in deaths, are trying to push the mayor out of the presidential race.
Gov. Cuomo is yet to sign a bill strengthening elevator safety — a measure highlighted after a Manhattan man was crushed to death last week.
Sen. Bob Antonacci’s campaign to run for a judgeship and leave the state Senate could lead to a domino effect — a cascade of GOP lawmakers heading for the exit.
The top official at the union that represents Long Island Rail Road workers blamed poor staffing levels for the high overtime costs.
A non-profit funded by New York City that manages homeless shelters packed in people in facilities with hazardous conditions, including bad wiring.
Prosecutors are set to bring a new indictment tomorrow against Harvey Weinstein, ahead of his sexual assault trial next month.
While Mayor de Blasio touted gains in test scores by public school students that were announced Thursday, their peers in charter schools are still doing better.
Lawmakers say National Grid is manufacturing a crisis to put pressure on the Cuomo administration to approve another application for the pipeline.
Former yeshiva students are split over whether the state should enforce standards at private schools similar to the ones in force for public institutions.
The Adirondacks are perhaps more popular than ever with the lush hiking trails and campgrounds. Though the North Country is seeing a tourism boom, with tourists comes a side effect: Contending with all those people. It’s a challenge for the Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos.
The Working Families Party is vowing to push forward with a fight to maintain fusion voting in New York elections.
Sen. Rob Ortt introduced legislation in response to a state plan to produce new license plates and force motorists whose plates are more than ten years old to buy them for a $25 fee.
The grand opening of del Lago Resort & Casino’s Sportsbook is now in the books— and that means you can place your sports bets at DraftKings Sportsbook at the casino.
The New York State Fair has waived parking fees for its new lot at the corner of Willis Avenue and State Fair Boulevard.
Marist Professor and Navy Veteran Tommy Zurhellen is trying to understand the reality of so many who worked in the military. Since April, he has walked 2,800 miles cross country to raise awareness about veteran homelessness and suicide.
A Springville man spoke openly for the first time Saturday after filing a lawsuit against the Diocese of Buffalo under the Children’s Victim Act.
Protesters marching into Port Authority during the heart of the Friday evening rush, calling on Greyhound, the national bus system, to stop allowing Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents to search their vehicles.
Parents challenging the state’s law ending the religious exemption for vaccinations have dropped their lawsuit in federal court.
Michael Caputo, a prominent western New York political consultant with ties to the Trump administration has taken on a new client: Somalia.
From the national pages:
President Trump at the G7 said China wants to get back to the negotiating table amid the latest tussle over trade policy.
The president’s top economic advisors say he is not ordering U.S. firms to cut ties with China after he tweeted his order that they do so.
Business groups are sounding the alarm over the increasing peril of the trade war.
The president has asked on several occasions why hurricanes can’t be hit with a nuclear weapon before reaching landfall in the United States.
Allies of the Trump administration are targeting journalists deemed to be hostile to the president and searching for old social media posts and other damaging information about them.
The mayor of Dayton, Ohio is embracing her new role as a national voice in a push for gun control after a mass shooting earlier this month in her city.
Democrats running for re-election in battleground states are not keen to discuss issues like Medicare-for-all.
Former Rep. Joe Walsh announced his campaign to challenge President Trump in a long-shot Republican primary.
From the editorial pages:
Sen. Zellnor Myrie writes in The Daily News that the flap over the license plate fees ignores the low wages prison inmates are paid to produce them.
EJ McMahon writes in The New York Post that the $25 fee for the new plates “smacks of nickel and diming.”
The Times Union knocked President Trump from backing from new gun control measures, calling him the “obfuscator in chief.”
Newsday knocked defense firm Northrop Grunman for opposing a DEC-backed plan for a proposed cleanup of legacy sites on Long Island.
From the sports pages:
Code Of Honor won the Travers Stakes at Saratoga.
The Yankees rebounded with three home runs off the Dodgers’s Clayton Kershaw to take two out of three from Los Angeles.
Colts quarterback Andrew Luck stunned the sports world and announced his retirement at 29.