Ways and Means NY

07/02/2023

Proud my little start up firm celebrated 10 years in business yesterday!

07/01/2021

Today marks the Eighth Anniversary for Ways and Means NY! I am the happiest I have ever been at work and am in debt to my clients - for it is you who have provided us with the important work to make this all possible.

05/06/2019

Pleased to be part of the panel discussing "Solar Legislation: Riding the Green Wave" at today's Summit:

The NYSEIA 2019 New York Solar Summit brings together solar energy professionals, industry leaders, and decision-makers to discuss the market trends and policy developments that matter most to the New York solar industry. Join us for a full day of discussion panels and data-driven presentations, con...

02/01/2019

Pleased to be working with the Environmental Defense Fund to deliver Congestion Pricing to the Manhattan Central Business District, delivering cleaner air and more mobility for all to that area, while helping to fund desparately-needed transit improvements:

A modern, clean public transit system is critical to meeting climate goals. A comprehensive congestion pricing plan will help New York get there.

01/31/2019

Please join me in welcoming Brianna Durkee to the Ways and Means NY team! An honors graduate of Marist, where she worked with their polling operation, and a paralegal with previous experience at another firm here in Albany:

Brianna Durkee joined Ways and Means NY in 2019 as our Legislative Analyst. Brianna is an honors graduate of Marist College where she was a Political Science major and became a certified paralegal. She has previous experience with a larger lobbying office here in Albany, where she became familiar wi...

01/11/2019

Pleased to announce that we will be working with Clearway Energy in the upcoming session to help increase the amount of solar power in New York State (community, distributed and utility scale), helping to achieve the NYS REV 2030 goals, including 50% of our electricity coming from renewable sources and 40% reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels.

The Clearway Energy Group is working on dozens of sustainable energy projects from solar to wind and microgrid systems. The Clearway Energy Group is dedicated to building a more sustainable future.

01/10/2019

https://twitter.com/WaysAndMeansNY/status/1083438763051610112

“Let the games begin...Tuesday! to present 2019-20 budget proposal then. Hopefully we will see the supporting legislation (appropriations, Article VIIs) then too. https://t.co/bFqxgsSnbk”

12/15/2018

There has been a lot of speculation about how the new Democratic State Senate majority will function, but this article does the best job of any thus far in explaining the balance they must achieve to retain power:

The 2018 election was an assertion of New York City’s political power in state government as much as progressive politics in general. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Queens native, won a third term on the strength of his downstate support, and the Democratic majorities in both houses of the state Legislature...

07/27/2018

This should make it official. All three partners are aligned: Flanagan Says Senate GOP Would Back Extension Of Speed Cameras

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement Friday said his conference would back an extension of the New York City speed camera program, but urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Democrats to engage on the issue.

07/17/2018

Timely! Attending the Summit convened by for Disaster Recovery discussions on behalf of but listening now to informative panel on election tampering.