LACKAWANNA, N.Y. — We continue to ask our Tough Questions to New York State leaders including State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie who is on his annual tour of the state to visit his Democratic Assembly members with various state taxpayer supported grant funding for projects or programs in their districts.

After Speaker Heastie signed a state funding check and posed for pictures - admitting it is your money, as in tax dollars - $1.2 Million going for the OLV Basilica Restoration project ...2 on Your Side then asked him about his response to some members in law enforcement who are critical of the legislature's laws for bail reform and the Raise the Age law. That one measure requires courts and judges to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18 - even as younger teenagers have been

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