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May 29, 2020
The Capitol Pressroom · May 29, 2020: Filling the gap: A roadmap to $8 billion in savings We heard from Dave Friedfel, Director of State Studies at the Citizens Budget Commission, on his organization’s recommendations for closing the budget gap that New York faces as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
May 29, 2020
The Capitol Pressroom · May 29, 2020: Reporter Bill Mahoney on the news of the week Bill Mahoney, Politico NY reporter, shared his latest reporting on the news of the week. Read More
May 29, 2020
The Capitol Pressroom · May 29, 2020: Environmentalists call on state to enforce plastic bag ban Environmentalists are calling on the state Department of Environmental Conservation to enforce the state’s plastic bag ban. Judith Enck, Senior Fellow and Visiting Faculty member at Bennington College, Founder of Beyond Plastics, and former EPA Regional Administrator, discussed ban enforcement and the other issues she is following. Read More
May 29, 2020
The Capitol Pressroom · May 29, 2020: Capital Region school district proposes 19.5% tax increase This year, school budget votes will be conducted via a mail-in vote on June 9th. Voters in the Rensselaer City School District will act on a budget proposal that includes a 19.5 percent tax increase. Joseph Kardash, Superintendent of the Rensselaer City School District, explained why the increase is needed. Read More
May 28, 2020
The Capitol Pressroom · May 28, 2020: Assembly GOP eye limits on Cuomo’s emergency powers Asm. Will Barclay (R-Pulaski), Assembly Minority Leader, explained his conference’s legislative proposal which would limit the Governor’s powers. Read More
May 28, 2020
The Capitol Pressroom · May 28, 2020: NY’s courts begin reopening with the help of technology The judicial system in New York grinded to a near halt during the COVID-19 pandemic. With regions of the state starting the reopening process, so are some court services. We discussed legal access issues with Hank Greenberg, President of the New York State Bar Association. Read More
May 28, 2020
The Capitol Pressroom · May 28, 2020: Lawmakers pass COVID-19 bills after nearly 2-month hiatus The legislature returned to session this week for the first time since passage of the state budget. We heard from Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on the bills that he is working on. Read More
May 27, 2020
The Capitol Pressroom · May 27, 2020: Poll: New Yorkers wary of reopening too fast Steve Greenberg, Siena College pollster, joined the show with the latest poll results from the Siena College Research Institute. Read More
May 27, 2020
The Capitol Pressroom · May 27, 2020: Pharmacists could play integral role in expanding COVID-19 testing Pharmacies are adapting their models and pushing for new regulations to address the needs of their communities. We discussed this issue with Steven Moore, President of the Pharmacists Society of the State of New York. Read More
May 27, 2020
The Capitol Pressroom · May 27, 2020: Latest unemployment figures paint grim picture for NY We made sense of the latest unemployment figures with Russell Weaver, Economic Geographer at Cornell University’s ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, and EJ McMahon, Founder and Research Director of the Empire Center for Public Policy. 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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May 29, 2020
Retail establishments allowing in-person shopping as part of phase two in the state’s reopening plan will need to ensure face coverings are worn by virtually all customers who walk through their doors, according to state guidance released early Friday. The guidance is not exactly a surprise, as it comes after many essential retailers have been imposing their own face covering requirements. Since the middle of April, New Yorkers who are unable to maintain social distancing have been required to wear some sort of face covering when in public. Read More
May 27, 2020
New Yorkers amassing a collection of cans and bottles at their homes during the last two months should be able to cash in next week at the latest. While the state has continued to collect the nickel deposits on eligible drink containers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the law requiring redemption centers, such as grocery stores, to accept the return of cans and bottles has not been enforced by state regulators. As a result, citing safety concerns and inadequate staff, many grocery stores have shut down their operations. Read More
May 26, 2020
Legislation expected to come up for a vote this week in the state Legislature won’t include a measure repealing broad legal protections for health care facilities that were tucked into the state budget. The language, which was dropped into the process at the end of negotiations between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the legislative leaders, broadly shields facilities, including nursing homes, from civil suits alleging their neglect led to COVID-19 related fatalities. Read More
May 22, 2020
Recent amendments to bills dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic might shed some light on the agenda for an upcoming session of the state senate, which is scheduled for next week, according to a joint legislative announcement on Friday. While senators have introduced dozens of bills responding to the outbreak, about a dozen were tweaked in the last few days. These changes could mean nothing or they could mean the legislative language is getting finalized in advance of a floor vote. Read More
May 20, 2020
Allegations that insufficient numbers of personnel at nursing homes contributed to COVID-19 related deaths has raised questions about the status of a required state report on the benefits of minimum staffing ratios in health care facilities. “A report, by law, was due from the health department in December of 2019 and I don’t know if they ever did the study, but it has certainly not been published,” Assembly Health Committee Chair Dick Gottfried told The Capitol Pressroom on Wednesday morning. Read More
May 19, 2020
While New York restaurants have largely pinned their hopes of survival on a federal bailout, there are also ways the state government can provide relief to the industry, according to renowned chef and restaurateur Tom Colicchio. “There’s a lot of stuff New York can do,” the “Top Chef” judge told The Capitol Pressroom on Tuesday. Read More
May 14, 2020
A top state official coordinating New York’s response to the novel coronavirus is recommending essential workers who regularly interact with the public get weekly tests for the virus. “There right now is the capacity in New York to be testing, I believe, more people than we are testing right now,” state Department of Financial Services Deputy Superintendent Gareth Rhodes told The Capitol Pressroom in a previously unaired excerpt from a recent interview. Read More
May 12, 2020
A state senator’s hopes of holding her own committee hearing to consider COVID-19 related workforce issues have been dashed – at least for now – by the chamber’s leadership. “I have been asking to hold labor committee hearings … and I have been declined,” Senate Labor Committee Chair Jessica Ramos, a Queens Democrat, told The Capitol Pressroom. Read More
May 8, 2020
The deployment of body cameras for State Police troopers as part of a new pilot program is still months away. Speaking on The Capitol Pressroom this week, Thomas Mungeer, head of the union representing the troopers, said the pilot program was initially expected to begin at the end of 2020 or early 2021, but he now expects it will take longer to get started. A spokesman for the State Police confirmed this possibility, saying, “Our goal was to initiate the pilot program before the end of year, but it’s possible that could now be delayed.” Read More
May 7, 2020
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is scheduled to meet remotely on Friday with upstate Democratic members, according to sources familiar with the plan. The meeting is at the request of the upstate Democratic members, who have assembled informally from time to time in recent years as an unrecognized, unofficial caucus in the chamber. Representative for the speaker did not respond to a request for comment on the meeting. Read More
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