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Wednesday, April 03, 2013  About 200 employees of the New York state Thruway Authority are expected to lose their jobs as part of layoffs announced by the Cuomo administration earlier this year.

Tuesday, July 03, 2012  A group advocating smokers' rights has sued the New York Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to remove outdoor no-smoking signs from state parks, beaches, pools and historic sites, saying they subject smokers to hostile confrontations.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012  The Cuomo administration, attorney general's office and legislative leaders are negotiating measures to curb the black market in hydrocodone and other addictive painkillers.

Wednesday, April 04, 2012  New York's online store for surplus state property is up and running.

Thursday, March 15, 2012  New York would see up to seven Las Vegas-style casinos, a doubled DNA database to fight crime and free innocent people, and a less cushy pension for future public workers under deals struck behind closed doors Wednesday.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012  The New York Times reports that the federal government has criticized the Cuomo administration for mishandling care for the developmentally disabled.

Tuesday, January 03, 2012  As the inmate population dropped to about 56,000 currently, continuing a decade-long decline, the Cuomo administration this summer closed two other medium-security prisons, Mid-Orange in the lower Hudson Valley and Oneida in central New York.

Thursday, December 29, 2011  Unions representing state workers in New York have filed a federal lawsuit against the Cuomo administration challenging an increase in health insurance contributions for thousands of retirees.

Tuesday, October 04, 2011  Regional representative of the Public Employees Federation says informal talks have resumed with the Cuomo Administration.

Tuesday, August 09, 2011  Gov. Andrew Cuomo says his administration is actively investigating whether to bring commercial, non-Indian casinos and related gambling to New York.