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November 24, 2020
Nov. 24, 2020 – A report from the Office of Court Administration took a look at the racial and other biases in the state’s court system. We heard from Adrienne Holder, Attorney-in-Charge of the Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice division, on the report and what moves the courts are taking. Read More
November 24, 2020
Nov. 24, 2020 – Legislation has been floating around the Capitol for years that would expand the right to vote to New Yorkers convicted of a felony after they are released from prison. Sean Morales-Doyle, Deputy Director of Voting Rights & Elections at the Brennan Center for Justice, explained how the system would work. Read More
November 24, 2020
Nov. 24, 2020 – The Independence Party fell short of the new thresholds to retain its automatic ballot access. We discussed the next steps for the party with its Chairman, Frank MacKay. Read More
November 24, 2020
Nov. 24, 2020 – Jim Heaney, Editor and Executive Director of Investigative Post, shared the latest reporting from the journalism outlet. Read More
November 23, 2020
Nov. 23, 2020 – Perry Grossman, a senior staff attorney in the Voting Rights Project at the New York Civil Liberties Union, explains how attorneys for campaigns get involved in the absentee ballot counting process in contested races. These attorneys slow down counting by the local boards of elections and often raise “frivolous” objections in an attempt to throw out votes they believe will benefit the opposing campaign. Read More
November 23, 2020
Nov. 23, 2020 – Dr. Don Levy, Director of the Siena College Research Institute, joined us for a retrospective on the 2020 election and how close or far off polls like his were to the actual result. Read More
November 23, 2020
Nov. 23, 2020 – This month, Governor Cuomo signed legislation aimed at expanding access for veterans to state parks and facilities. Aaron Leonard, Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter member who served in the U.S. Army, explained how this legislation will play a key role in the transition from solider to civilian. Read More
November 23, 2020
Nov. 23, 2020 – New York’s child care system has been teetering on the financial cliff and the pandemic has worsened the situation. We got an update on the situation from Jenn O’Connor, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Prevent Child Abuse New York. Read More
November 20, 2020
Nov. 20, 2020 – Ava Ayers, Assistant Professor and Director of the Albany Law School’s Government Law Center, gave us a primer on how the electoral college elects the President of the United States Read More
November 20, 2020
Nov. 20, 2020 – With the Thanksgiving holiday right around the corner, we got an update on the state’s food banks and the increased demand they are experiencing from Dan Egan, Executive Director of Feeding New York State. 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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November 18, 2020
One of the unresolved questions about a potential COVID-19 vaccine, which is likely months away from mass distribution, is whether a vaccination will be necessary for New Yorkers working in professions directly interacting with the public. For instance, should adults in schools be required to get vaccinated for the novel coronavirus? And that’s the question we posed on Wednesday’s episode of The Capitol Pressroom to Andy Pallotta, president of New York State United Teachers, which is an underwriter of the show. “I think our folks are looking at that question right now,” Pallotta said. “Our membership throughout the state has many opinions on this, and we will be discussing these opinions with (the) NYSUT board of directors and also our leaders, our local leaders throughout the state.” Read More
November 12, 2020
Don’t bet on the state senate to convene in Albany before the end of the year. Speaking Thursday on The Capitol Pressroom, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said there is no “definitive plan” to pass any bills before the new legislature is convened in 2021 for its regular schedule. Rank-and-file Democratic lawmakers have been clamoring this fall for an opportunity to pass legislation addressing the pandemic and take steps to generate additional state revenue. Read More
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
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