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March 3, 2021
Mar. 3, 2021 – We heard from New York State Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs, who is urging for patience as the Attorney General investigates the allegations of sexual harassment against Governor Cuomo. Read More
March 3, 2021
Mar. 3, 2021 – With the state budget due in less than one month, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli (D) shared his office’s analysis of the Governor’s proposed budget and discuss his procurement powers which were suspended during the pandemic. Read More
March 3, 2021
Mar. 3, 2021 – Has the state’s vaccination program reached the people of color and marginalized communities that have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19? Josefa Velasquez, Senior Reporter at The City, joined us to discuss her reporting on the issue. Read More
March 2, 2021
Mar. 2, 2021 – The New York Times has reported another allegation of sexual harassment against Governor Andrew Cuomo. We spoke with one of the reporters on the forefront of these stories, Jesse McKinley, Albany Bureau Chief for The New York Times. Read More
March 2, 2021
Mar. 2, 2021 – Former Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb’s time away from public service ended quickly. We heard from the former Leader who is taking on a new role as Vice Chair of the Public Campaign Finance Board. Read More
March 2, 2021
Mar. 2, 2021 – The Center for Disability Services in the Capital Region is working to vaccine New Yorkers living with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Could this model be replicated across the state to help this vulnerable population? We discussed it with Greg Sorrentino, President and CEO of the Center for Disability Services Read More
March 2, 2021
Mar. 2, 2021 – The fight against diseases like hepatitis don’t hit pause while public health leaders battle COVID-19. Today, we checked in with Annette Gaudino, Director of Policy Strategy at the Treatment Action Group, on how the fight against hepatitis is going in New York. Read More
March 1, 2021
Mar. 1, 2021 – Over the weekend, another sexual harassment allegation against Governor Cuomo came to light. Bill Mahoney, Politico NY reporter, outlined the latest developments in this story. Read More
March 1, 2021
Mar. 1, 2021 – Stephen Hanse, President & CEO of NS Health Facilities Association and NYS Center for Assisted Living, weighed in on the proposed regulations for his industry. Read More
March 1, 2021
Mar. 1, 2021 – Last week, lawmakers held a marathon hearing on the Governor’s proposed health budget. On today’s show, we caught up with Asm. Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan), chair of the Assembly Health Committee. Read More
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Lombardo earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the State University of New York at Geneseo.
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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March 3, 2021
New York State Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs says “bullying” has no place in state government, but he doesn’t condemn “tough talk” at the Capitol. Read More
March 2, 2021
Senate Democrats may agree on the need for an independent investigation into the multiple allegations of sexual misconduct by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but there is a wide schism of opinions among the 43-member majority about what should happen in the interim. A handful of senators, including Jessica Ramos, Alessandra Biaggi, Gustavo Rivera and Jabari Brispot, say unequivocally that Cuomo needs to go now, while the situation is more complicated for other members. Read More
March 2, 2021
Legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are projecting two-year revenue totals that are $2.453 billion above the estimates in the executive budget proposal. Read More
March 1, 2021
Assembly Health Committee Chair Dick Gottfried supports a proposal being considered by his Democratic colleagues requiring Gov. Andrew Cuomo to be more responsive to the Legislature when responding to the pandemic. Read More
February 26, 2021
In the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Senate Ethics Committee Chair Alessandra Biaggi is exploring what ability she has to investigate the state’s chief executive. Read More
February 26, 2021
Senate Ethics Committee Chair Alessandra Biaggi isn’t surprised that Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul hasn’t commented on allegations of sexual misconduct against Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “I would love to see the lieutenant governor weigh in because she is a member of that administration, whether or not the governor wants to admit that or not,” Biaggi told The Capitol Pressroom in an interview recorded on Thursday. Read More
February 25, 2021
Legislation making it easier to visit nursing homes is expected to get an Assembly vote next week as part of a package of reforms targeting the industry, according to Assemblyman Harry Bronson, a Rochester-area Democrat, who previously chaired the chamber’s Aging Committee. “My (visitation) bill is one of the bills that is being considered as part of that package,” Bronson said in an interview on Thursday. Read More
February 25, 2021
Rank-and-file Assembly Democrats were presented Wednesday with a series of new pandemic oversight measures for their consideration and possible adoption as early as next week. The proposed checks on the governor’s powers that were discussed during a private meeting of majority members includes requiring the Cuomo administration to report certain decisions a week in advance to legislative committee chairs and allowing municipalities to issue their own pandemic executive orders as long as they don’t conflict with state actions, according to multiple members briefed on the proposal. Read More
February 23, 2021
The Senate is not going to vote this week to curtail Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pandemic powers, as the Democratic majority is still working on legislation that would create a new oversight committee. A spokesman for the Senate Democratic Conference said Tuesday afternoon they were honing their proposal, with the goal of creating legislation that would make a workable law. Read More
February 12, 2021
Assembly Democrats met privately on Friday for more more than three hours to discuss the extraordinary powers exercised by Gov. Andrew Cuomo since the arrival of the novel coronavirus. The meeting, which was scheduled in advance of the New York Post’s report on Thursday about the Cuomo administration’s rationale for not releasing COVID-19 data to the state Legislature, featured a presentation by Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski, chair of the chamber’s operations committee, who walked his Democratic colleagues through a 75-page analysis of all the executive actions taken by the governor between March of 2020 and the end of January. Read More