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Area state legislators renew call to reopen schools: Point to CDC’s revised guidance and call on Governor Cuomo to revise NY’s distancing mandate to 3 feet

April 6, 2021

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), acknowledging a growing body of public health data surveying the experience of school systems over the past year of the COVID-19 pandemic, has revised its guidelines to permit 3-foot distancing in school classrooms.

O’Mara rejects fund to make taxpayer-financed payments to undocumented immigrants, recently released inmates: Fund seeks one-time payments approaching $30,000 for some recipients

April 5, 2021

“This Democrat budget could be the most radical tax-and-spend proposal to ever come out of Albany.

Senator O'Mara's weekly column 'From the Capitol' ~ for the week of April 5, 2021 ~ ''Recognize libraries in this post-COVID budget"

April 5, 2021

Senator O'Mara shares his weekly perspective on issues facing New York State government.

O’Mara, colleagues call for income tax break for unemployed New Yorkers: Senate Republicans push to exclude $10,200 in unemployment benefits from NYS taxable income to ease economic burden caused by COVID-19 shutdowns

March 31, 2021

The COVID-19 economic shutdown has already taken an enormous toll on thousands upon thousands of hard-hit unemployed New Yorkers and their families and communities.

Statement from Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt and Senator O'Mara: Cop killers should not be serving on "police reform" boards

March 31, 2021

Senator O'Mara