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Below are the Top 5 items from July 2019 1. TOURING PROGRESS AT SUNY BROOME’S CULINARY ARTS CENTER: On July 23rd, I had the chance to tour the future home of SUNY Broome’s Culinary Arts Center. The state-of-the-art facility is located inside Binghamton’s historic Carnegie Library where workers have been busy adding space to the building’s rear and completely renovating … Read More

As New York’s hemp industry continues to grow, the state of Florida is looking to the Empire State as a model for its recently approved hemp program. Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo and CSG Hemp welcomed Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried to Broome County Monday to learn more about how NYS, now a national leader, is building its … Read More

Below are the Top 5 items from June 2019 1. LEGISLATURE TAKES MAJOR STEP IN EFFORT TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE: Protecting our environment and addressing the effects of climate change remains an important priority for me and for most of my constituents. On the climate front, our community has firsthand experience with multiple floods that were supposed to be rare. … Read More

Legislation critically important in light of farm labor bill passage (ALBANY, NY) – While ongoing discussion are underway about the recently passed farm labor bill, Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo introduced and passed a bill with Senator Jen Metzger to create an agricultural investment task force (A8347/S6553). The short-term task force would develop budget and policy recommendations to address the sustainability of … Read More

Lupardo secures grant for permanent performance space (BINGHAMTON, NY) – Coming this summer to a park near you: a new permanent performance space. Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo and County Executive Jason Garnar announced details of a new stage at Otsiningo Park that is currently under construction. The project is supported by a $125,000 State and Municipal Facilities (SAM) grant secured by … Read More

Language included to safeguard consumers & producers (ALBANY, NY) – As the 2019 legislative session wrapped up early Friday morning, Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo and Senator Jen Metzger passed legislation that expands the state’s current industrial hemp law to regulate the production and marketing of hemp extracts such as the popular cannabidiol, commonly known as CBD. Hemp extracts are used in … Read More

Legislation especially important in light of farm labor compromise (ALBANY, NY) – With a compromise reached on the issue of farm worker labor in New York (A8419/S6578), Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo introduced new legislation to create an agricultural investment task force (A8347). The short-term task force would develop budget and policy recommendations to address the sustainability of farming in NYS.  The … Read More

Below are the Top 5 items from May 2019. 1. SESSION WINDING DOWN AT THE STATE CAPITOL: There are less than three weeks left in the legislative session in Albany and this session has already produced a number of significant items passed by the State Legislature. Long-overdue voting reforms were signed into law in January; we passed a budget that … Read More

(Albany, NY) – Today, the New York State legislature celebrated Dairy Day to help kick off the designation of June as Dairy Month in the United States, a tradition dating back to 1937. Dairy Day celebrates the importance of New York’s more than 4,000 dairy farmers who care for more than 600,000 cows that produce over 12 billion pounds of … Read More