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Recordatorio – Existe ayuda disponible con los impuestos

Cada año alrededor de este tiempo, todos sentimos esa vieja tensión familiar que crece a medida se acerca el 15 de abril. Es tiempo de rendir las planillas, y con todos los formularios y reglamentos y los nuevos créditos, puede parecer abrumador para...

Reminder – Tax Assistance is Available

Every year about this time, we all feel that old familiar tension building as we approach April 15th. It’s tax season, and with all the forms and regulations and new credits, it can seem a bit overwhelming to anyone, no matter how well you remember...

Women’s History Month Essay Contest

Assemblyman Ramos: Beware of Rapid Refunds

As tax season arrives, many of you are expecting tax refund checks and want that refund as soon as possible to keep yourself from going further into debt. However, I am urging people to be aware and not turn to refund anticipation loans (RALs) to receive...

New York's Homeland Security Funding Slashed

Philip Ramos Is Working To Keep Suffolk Families Safe

Senate Must Provide Answers for Why They Won’t Negotiate Civil Confinement

To the Editor: Earlier in this legislative session, the Assembly and Senate passed similar legislation providing for the civil confinement of sexual predators. Because the two bills weren’t identical, a conference committee was formed to iron out...

Assemblyman Ramos Provides Suffolk Families with Relief and Reform

Ramos: Legislature’s Budget Makes Critical Restorations to Higher Education

The Legislature has reached a bipartisan agreement that makes significant investments in New York’s higher education system while rejecting the most harmful parts of the governor’s budget. Unlike the governor’s budget, the Legislature’s proposal...

State Legislature Provides the Leadership New Yorker’s Deserve

This week the Legislature in a bipartisan fashion voted to override Governor Pataki’s ill-conceived budget vetoes – vetoes that would have left thousands of families without quality health care, low-cost prescriptions and much needed tax relief. The...

Ramos: Legislature Delivers Record School Aid in Response to Shortchanging by the Governor

The Legislature’s Budget Agreement provides record school aid increases for Suffolk County schools. Unlike the governor’s proposal, this bipartisan plan provides students with the tools necessary to excel and succeed with aid to programs like Universal...

Voters Should Pick Their Leaders - Leaders Shouldn’t Pick Their Voters

Assemblyman Ramos: State Sales Tax Needs To Go

Assemblyman Phil Ramos is committed to seeing that the state’s 4 percent sales tax on clothing and footwear will be eliminated as scheduled on April 1. Eliminating the state sales tax would save Suffolk families $57 million a year. The Assembly passed...

Assemblyman Ramos Will Stand Up to the Governor's Wrong Choices

Assemblyman Ramos Outlines Plan to Keep a College Education Within Reach for Working Families

Assemblyman Ramos and the Assembly Majority announced their higher education budget plan last week that rejects Governor Pataki’s wrong choices. This plan will make significant investments in New York’s higher education system while rejecting the...

Assemblyman Ramos Is Fighting for Our Students

Ramos: Governor’s Budget Demonstrates His Misguided Priorities

When it comes to padding the pockets of the wealthy and leaving the middle-class and poor behind no one has fought harder than Governor Pataki. The Governor’s rhetoric about his budget benefiting New York’s working families was nothing more than political...

Ramos: NRA President Helps Make the Case Against State Senate Majority

As a police officer for over 20 years, I’ve seen firsthand the destruction and harm caused by gun violence. Our communities continue to cope with this violence and flow of illegal guns on our streets. There is a solution to deal with this problem, but...

Governor Neglects Obligation to Invest in Our Children’s Future

Governor Pataki squandered his last opportunity to make right by our State’s college students. His budget not only proposed cuts to the tuition assistance program (TAP) and raises SUNY tuition by $500; he has also failed to provide vital funding to...

Governor’s Budget Fails Local Schools…Again

With his final budget, the governor boasts that he proposed additional education funding in his budget this year, the truth is he once again shortchanged operating aid for local schools, including Brentwood and Central Islip school districts. Sadly,...