Support for Five Bills Strengthening NYS Government buff.ly/o4lWYil

Reinvent Albany thanks Senator @jamesskoufis.bsky.social & Leaders for Extending Monitor of Orange County IDA in Budget. See our full statement here: buff.ly/KHt0WHv

Support for 13 Bills Strengthening NYS Government buff.ly/ldtN5E6

See our full analysis here: reinventalbany.org/2026/05/desp...

Our John Kaehny’s thoughts on NY’s late budget on Capital Tonight with @sarbetter.bsky.social: “Let’s pass the dollars and cents part of the budget and make the big policy decisions in the legislative session.”

Support for Three Bills Strengthening NYS Government with Opposition to One buff.ly/w5XUa3H

Thanks to our IDA Roundtable speakers from @nysut.bsky.social, NYS School Boards Association, @nyscomptroller.bsky.social, the Authorities Budget Office, and NYS Council of Churches for breaking down how IDAs impact schools, communities & public revenues

Happening now: IDA roundtable with at Empire State Plaza Room 1 convened by Senator Comrie and Assemblymember Solages

Support for Three Bills Strengthening NYS Government buff.ly/gOklD8y

Our John Kaehny spoke with @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social about what legislators could do to change the budget process to focus less on policy. “An amendment could be put before voters that the governor cannot introduce policy bills in Article VII of the Constitution, only budget bills.”

“If bidders have seen it, how does releasing it hurt competition?…What it does hurt is Amtrak and the Trump administration’s ability to control the narrative…there are questions they don’t want to answer,” says our @rachaelfauss.bsky.social at yesterday’s Penn Station presser

View our group memo of opposition with @cbcny.bsky.social, @etany.org, @partnership4nyc.bsky.social, @rpa.org, and Transits Cost Project on a bill that would require two-person crews on every NYC subway train reinventalbany.org/2026/04/grou...

See our memos of support for two new bills and five reissues helping to strengthen NYS government reinventalbany.org/2026/04/supp...

See our memo of support for local job transparency bill buff.ly/88De2MG

Reinvent Albany Backs Governor Hochul’s Ban on State Employees Using Insider Information to Profit from Prediction Markets buff.ly/VPdFp57

Support for Seven Bills Strengthening NYS Government. Read our five new memos and two reissues: buff.ly/bdv1NwH

The consortium of organizations behind Wednesday’s letter wrote that “[fewer] than 6% of 400 rail lines around the world use two or more train operators...” “These systems have operated safely without conductors, or any staff in some cases, on board,” the letter reads buff.ly/kJ2XJnC

Reinvent Albany statement featured on @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social. The PCFB is currently meeting to determine whether GOP candidate Blakeman is eligible to receive public funds.

“$400m dollars, why would we not want that money here in NY?… Some would say that we’re not in our right minds if we would not do this decoupling... We can take the opportunity to uncouple ourselves from these opportunity zones this year," AM Dinowitz at yesterday's press conference

“It should be an easy choice to sit here and save the state a lot of money…this is hundreds of millions of dollars...that we can put towards some of the important programmatic issues that we all care so deeply about.” @sengianaris.bsky.social on why we need to end tax breaks for opportunity zones

"What’s going on in our state and across the country, transparency is needed more than ever... I’m always in full support of transparency - spreading sunlight in the dark corners or shadows that could be brightened more," AM Raga on S2520/A3425

🎉 Great news today - FOIL Reporting bill passed the Assembly! 🎉 🔆We celebrated Sunshine Week yesterday with key legislators @jamesskoufis.bsky.social @liunewyork.bsky.social @johnmcdonald108.bsky.social @lindabrosenthal.bsky.social @philsteckny.bsky.social AM Raga and transparency advocates 🔆

☀️ Sunshine Week is here and NY can lead ☀️ Our groups to the Legislature: pass 4 key bills to strengthen NY's Freedom of Information Law. Let’s make NY a bright spot against rising secrecy buff.ly/qjkIK9x

Congratulations to @mta.info @ridersalliance.org @earthjustice.org + our amicus brief partners on the victory for congestion relief today. Judge Liman's decision rejects dangerous arguments from the Trump administration about executive power, such as the "unmistakability doctrine" re: contracts.

Opposition to One Bill, Support for Three Strengthening Transparency. See the memos here: buff.ly/1C3XZxT

We joined with @citizensunionny.bsky.social @freedom.press @mad-democracy.journa.host.ap.brid.gy @lwvnys.bsky.social @nppa.org @penamerica.bsky.social @sejorg.bsky.social to call for equal state support for non-profit news outlets. buff.ly/z5xS3WP

NY’s courts are overwhelmed. We joined @citizensunionny.bsky.social Common Cause NY and Scrutinize to support the Uncap Justice Act and Timely Justice Act to modernize judicial staffing with transparency, data, and accountability. Time to fix the system. ⚖️ buff.ly/qaphcAo

We and other groups @freedom.press @legalaidnyc.bsky.social @mad-democracy.journa.host.ap.brid.gy @nppa.org @nyclu.org @sejorg.bsky.social @stopspyingny.bsky.social wrote to the NYS legislative leaders urging them to act now to strengthen FOIL in their FY27 one-house budgets. buff.ly/kioqrp0

Our ask to Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins: close the transparency gap and publish Senate confirmation votes. Check out our letter: buff.ly/H8Ho6yK

Our testimony to the Legislature on the NYS transportation budget focuses on: SUPPORT for funding state of good repair, $25m for MTA Subway Co-response Outreach (SCOUT) OPPOSITION to new MTA debt and carve outs to congestion pricing and camera enforcement buff.ly/qKsVRkG