NY budget still in limbo
ALBANY – State budget talks remained stalled Tuesday despite a two-hour meeting between top leaders, who refuse to move on the spending plan until they settle issues including New York’s controversial bail laws. “We just talked about the totality of what a budget would take, and so there’s no agreement on any of that,” state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) told reporters at the state Capitol on Tuesday, after meeting with Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers). “That’s really it,” the Bronx powerbroker said. Hochul is continuing to pressure the pols on such issues as…
