May 27th, 2010
By MATT POWERS
Dispatch Staff Writer
ALBANY — Area residents will have a chance to put in their two cents at a “People’s Convention to Reform New York” town hall meeting in the Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Middle School gymnasium on June 10 at 6:30 p.m.
New York State Assemblyman David Townsend, R-115 and Assemblyman Brian Kolb, R-129, will co-host the event, which is designed to inform constituents of the people’s convention and its purpose.
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May 20th, 2010
Just days after state Senate President Malcolm Smith claimed that he was going to help the Democrats “redistrict the Republicans into oblivion,” several “good government” groups convened a meeting in Albany to discuss reform of state government. They invited Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
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May 10th, 2010
Two separate events are scheduled in the Hudson Valley Wednesday, with one common theme — the concept of a Constitutional Convention. WAMC’s Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Greg Fry has a preview…
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May 10th, 2010
Written by Cory Twibell and Victoria Caruso-Davis
“Is Albany working for you?” asked New York State Assemblyman Minority Leader Brian Kolb (129th A.D.) to those gathered for a town hall meeting last week. “Is the New York State government working for you?”
The response from an audience of about 50 gathered at the Hicksville Knights of Columbus was silence; not a single person raised their hand.
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