The New York State budget negotiations, as always, are taking on big issues as well as numbers.

Assembly, Senate pass budget plans to tax rich, hike Buffalo aid

Democrats in the State Legislature passed resolutions that added billions in spending to Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposed $263 billion budget. 

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