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September 13, 2019
New York City will be launching ranked choice voting for citywide elections this November. We got a primer on the topic from the Executive Director of Common Cause NY, Susan Lerner. Read More
September 13, 2019
The license plate plan from the Governor’s office has attracted bipartisan anger from across the state. We discussed the issue with two lawmakers taking action against the program, Sen. David Carlucci (D-New City), chair of the Senate Committee on Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, and Sen. Fred Akshar (R-Binghamton), Ranking Member of the Crime Victims, Crime and Correction and Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Committees. Read More
September 13, 2019
The State Academy for Public Administration is giving this year’s Rockefeller Award for Distinguished Public Service to Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins at their annual meeting. We previewed the event with the organization’s Chair, Thomas Lukacs. Read More
September 13, 2019
We took a look back at the news of the week that was when Bill Mahoney of Politico NY and Dan Clark of the New York Law Journal. Read More
September 12, 2019
A group of organizations are calling for the Governor to include a Family Caregiver Tax Credit in his state budget proposal. Bill Ferris and Kristen McManus, Associate State Directors at AARP NY, discussed why these tax credits are needed. Read More
September 12, 2019
Forty-eight years after the Attica Prison uprising, advocates are calling for the unsealing of the grand jury investigation of the events. We heard about the push from Malcolm Bell, Former Special Assistant Attorney General, Chief Assistant of the New York State Attica Investigation, and author of The Attica Turkey Shoot, and Joe Heath, an attorney who represented Attica inmates. Read More
September 12, 2019
New legislation would end the 24-hour workday for home health aides. Asm. Harvey Epstein (D-Manhattan) explained how the legislation works along with home health aide Mary Lister. Read More
September 12, 2019
The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act set the state’s ambitious clean energy goals into law. Now, the debate is being waged on whether the state should halt any new fossil fuel developments. Jessica Azulay, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Green Economy, and Bob Wyman, co-founder of Dandelion Energy, weighed in on issue. Read More
September 11, 2019
Larry Levy, Executive Dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies and Vice President of Economic Development at Hofstra, shared his insights on the latest news. Read More
September 11, 2019
There is a push for the state to fully fund universal Pre-K programs. We heard from two lawmakers advocating for a funding increase; Asm. Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern), chair of the Assembly Committee on Children and Families, and Asm. Tom Abinanti (D-Greenburgh/Mt. Pleasant), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis and Investigation. Read More
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