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November 6, 2020
Nov. 6, 2020 – After the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Day 2021, state legislators may be getting a pay raise. Cam Macdonald, Director of Projects and Fellow at the Empire Center for Public Policy, broke down how the raise came to be. Read More
November 6, 2020
Nov. 6, 2020 – A new website from the State Department of Education hosts resources for districts developing a sexual abuse prevention curriculum as mandated by Erin’s Law. Betty Rosa, Interim Commissioner of the State Education Department, and Erik Sweet, Supervisor of the New York State Education Department’s Office of Curriculum and Instruction, joined the show to discuss the resources and the new prevention education requirements. Read More
November 6, 2020
Nov. 6, 2020 – At the end of last month, the Governor announced a new position of Special Counsel for Ratepayer Protection in the state’s Department of Public Service. Richard Berkley, Executive Director of the Public Utility Law Project, weighed in on the creation of the new position. Read More
November 6, 2020
Nov. 6, 2020 – The pandemic has changed every facet of our lives including how we get food from our favorite restaurants. Delivery apps have seen a surge in usage as more New Yorkers stay home. Asm. John McDonald (D-Cohoes) explained how his legislation would regulate this industry to help small businesses. Read More
November 5, 2020
Nov. 5, 2020 – Dave Friedfel, Director of State Studies at the Citizens Budget Commission, made sense of New York’s financial picture. Read More
November 5, 2020
Nov. 5, 2020 – A case is being argued at the U.S. Supreme Court which could have wide reaching ramifications for same-sex couples looking to foster or adopt children. Ron Richter, CEO of JCCA, one of the largest foster care and family service agencies in New York, weighed in on the situation. Read More
November 5, 2020
Nov. 5, 2020 – We got an update on the issues impacting the Catskill Park from Katherine Nadeau, Deputy Director of Catskill Mountainkeeper. Read More
November 5, 2020
Nov. 5, 2020 – The Rochester Police Accountability Board has found an Executive Director. We met Conor Dwyer Reynolds, the organization’s Executive Director pending confirmation who also serves as a Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, and Shani Wilson, Chair of the Police Accountability Board, we also discussed their goals for the organization and more. Read More
November 4, 2020
Nov. 4, 2020 – Erie County is home to New York’s second largest city, Buffalo. We heard from Jeremy Zellner, Chair of the Erie County Democratic Party and Democratic Elections Commissioner, about how the election ran in this Upstate county. Read More
November 4, 2020
Nov. 4, 2020 – New York’s third parties campaigned not just for their candidates but to hold onto their ballot lines. Politico New York’s Bill Mahoney broke down the third party vote and which parties have hung on. Read More
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Timothy Williams
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Timothy Williams has produced “The Capitol Pressroom” since 2017. Williams was recently promoted to senior political producer at WCNY. He was named to Albany 40 Under 40 Rising Stars by City & State New York.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Sociology from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
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November 6, 2020
Heading into election night the Democrats controlled 40 seats in the state senate. Read More
November 4, 2020
Democrats will control the state senate in 2021, but the size of their majority won’t be known until later this month at the earliest. Based on the in-person voting that has been tabulated so far, the Senate Democrats have picked up three open seats in western New York that Republicans previously controlled and Republicans definitely ousted one Democratic freshman on Long Island. In order to win eight other unresolved seats, only two of which are represented by Republicans, Democrats are hoping there are enough absentee ballots to help them overcome in-person voting deficits. Read More
October 27, 2020
New York Hemp and CBD businesses hoping to get licensed in January will have to wait longer than planned due to the state’s timetable for approving regulations for the industries. On Tuesday, Democratic state lawmakers Donna Lupardo and Jen Metzger, who chair their chambers’ respective agriculture committees, announced that the ‘much anticipated’ hemp extract regulations would be filed with the state register on November 10. Public comment will be accepted until Jan. 11, 2021. Read More
October 26, 2020
Onondaga County voters will get four extra hours to take advantage of early voting next weekend. The expansion is an attempt to accommodate the unprecedented demand for early voting, as more than 9,800 votes were cast during the first weekend in Onondaga County, easily exceeding the approximately 8,600 early votes cast during all of last year in the county. “The overall number was a big surprise,” Onondaga County Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny told The Capitol Pressroom on Monday. “I mean we expected brisk turnout. I thought 3,000 people a day at the outside.” Read More
October 23, 2020
While the Democratic field of mayor hopefuls in New York City gets more crowded every day, a national heavyweight could still join the fray. Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang continues to mull over a potential 2021 run, according to his former campaign manager, Zach Graumann. “We haven’t ruled anything out,” Graumann said this week on The Capitol Pressroom. “I think the polling numbers on Andrew Yang for mayor of New York are very very compelling” Read More
October 5, 2020
New Yorkers who park their gas guzzlers in public spots reserved for electric vehicles could soon face repercussions. Legislation waiting on the governor’s desk would make the advertised restrictions more than just a suggestion, giving them the weight of state law and enforceable by local authorities. The change, which is sponsored by Democratic lawmakers Jen Metzger and Amy Paulin, received bipartisan support in the state legislature. Read More
October 1, 2020
Senate Minority Leader Robert Ortt is looking to promote internet media freedom in New York, after his political allies had their social media account muzzled this summer. The western New York Republican proposed the creation of an Internet Media Freedom Task Force to examine “censorship employed by social media companies” and consider how platforms like Facebook and Twitter effect elections. The legislation was introduced less than a month after the state’s Conservative Party was released from a two-month stint in Twitter jail, after the account was mistakenly flagged as spam by the social media giant. Read More
September 25, 2020
In past years, New York’s Independence Party would throw its weight behind Republican efforts to maintain control of the state Senate. This year, though, the third party’s chairman doesn’t think that the chamber is up for grabs, noting he can “only deal in reality.” “We’re not taking sides at this point,” Independence Party Chair Frank MacKay said Friday on The Capitol Pressroom. Read More
August 27, 2020
Despite serving as the frontman for a coalition opposing higher taxes, former Gov. David Paterson believes the state will adopt some new measure aimed at wealthy New Yorkers to bring in more revenue during the pandemic. “If anybody thinks they’re getting out of this situation without suffering the way the rest of us will, they’re really missing the point,” Paterson told The Capitol Pressroom. Read More
August 21, 2020
The arrival of an out-of-state, hemp-infused seltzer on store shelves this week in New York has the state’s hemp industry calling foul. Kaló, a 12-ounce drink with 20 milligrams of “naturally occurring CBD and other cannabinoids,” is being sold in violation of state law, according to a spokesperson for the Department of Health. But it’s not clear what the state is doing about the illegal product, which is produced in New Jersey, aside from referring the matter to the federal Food and Drug Administration for follow up. Read More
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