The Federal Government has passed the CARES Act, which extends unemployment benefits. There is help for those who have had their employment interrupted by Covid-19.

Assemblyman Christopher S. Friend (R,C-Big Flats) is proposing significant changes to the Raise the Age law to ensure highly-violent 16- to 17-year-old criminal offenders are tried in the appropriate Youth Part of Superior Court, as opposed to being downgraded...

Assemblyman Christopher S. Friend (R,C-Big Flats), his legislative colleagues and local highway superintends today called for an increase in local road and bridge aid. They are fighting for a $200 million increase to the Consolidated Local Street and...

Assemblyman Christopher S. Friend (R,C-Big Flats) recently served breakfast to visiting students from FFA, formally known as Future Farmers of America, in Albany on their annual advocacy day. He and the students discussed ways to promote and improve agricultural...

Assemblyman Christopher Friend (R,C-Big Flats) is calling for the state Legislature to take action to restore judicial discretion in our courts to reverse increasing crime rates created by the 2019 bail reform law. According to a recent Siena College...