Aug. 3, 2015: Tom Wilber
No one has produced more thoughtful reporting on New York’s fracking fight than Tom Wilber. And I’m not the only one who has noticed that. Publisher’s Weekly called his book, Under the Surface...
View ArticleAug. 4, 2015: Best-Of Episode
We return to the middle of July — just after the Cuomo Administration signed a surprise Memorandum of Agreement with the Senate Republicans regarding an element of the SAFE ACT. We heard two...
View ArticleAug. 5, 2015: Best-Of Episode
State Republican Chairman Ed Cox joins Susan Arbetter to discuss presidential politics. The Brennan Center for Justice, along with several other plaintiffs, has filed a lawsuit contesting New York...
View ArticleAug. 6, 2015: Best-Of Episode
We bring you an exit interview with DEC Commissioner Joe Martens. Original air-date: July 15, 2015. We speak with Second Amendment advocate Jacob Palmateer, a member of the executive committee of...
View ArticleAug. 7, 2015: Best-Of Episode
Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D – Westchester) looks at the balance of power in the Senate, the Senate candidacy of Barbara Fiala, and the SAFE Act MOU between Governor...
View ArticleAug. 10, 2015: Pullitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert, John Robinson
New Yorker writer and journalist Elizabeth Kolbert won the Pulitzer Prize this year for her book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History published by Henry Holt. In it, she details her journeys...
View ArticleAug. 11, 2015: Best-Of Episode
We meet Barbara Fiala, the Democratic candidate in the 52nd Senate District. (Original air-date: July 28) Iona College Professor Dr. Jeanne Zaino explains the good and the bad of the state’s new...
View ArticleAug. 12, 2015: Best-Of Episode
First up, we wanted to revisit the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in all fifty states. Daniel Alter, an adjunct professor and fellow at New York University Law School, provided...
View ArticleAug. 13, 2015: Best-of Episode
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie joined Susan Arbetter to discuss taxes and infrastructure as he embarked on a summertime tour of upstate New York. (Original air-date: July 21) A new poll showed that...
View ArticleAug. 14, 2015: Ashley Hupfl, Ken Lovett and Michael Gormley, Constitution...
Ashley Hupfl Shares this week’s City & State Winners and Losers. We look at the news highlights of the week with NY Daily News Albany Bureau Chief Kenneth Lovett and Newsday’s Michael Gormley....
View ArticleAug. 17, 2015: S.C.O.P.E., Peter Newell, Susan Lerner, Erie County microbeads...
Shooters Committee on Political Education (S.C.O.P.E.), a second amendments rights group, won an open-records legal battle against Gov. Cuomo in state supreme court last week. S.C.O.P.E. President...
View ArticleAug. 18, 2015: Rep. Paul Tonko, James Parrott
Rep. Paul Tonko (D, NY-20) joins us to discuss President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, the Iran Nuclear deal and the future of the Export-Import bank. The Fiscal Policy Institute’s Deputy Director and...
View ArticleAug. 19, 2015: Heather Briccetti, Tim Kremer, Sheri Lederman, Larry Levy
The Business Council President and CEO Heather Briccetti explains the group’s objections to the Wage Board’s recommendation to raise the fast-food minimum wage to $15/hr. Tim Kremer, the executive...
View ArticleAug. 20, 2015: Judith Enck, Soffiyah Elijah
We look at the President’s Clean Power Plan and the EPA’s methane emission cuts for new oil and gas sources with EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck. The Correctional Association of New York says...
View ArticleAug. 21, 2015: Jon Lentz, reporters, JCOPE review
City & State Senior Correspondent and Associate Editor Jon Lentz looks at this week’s Winners and Losers. We host a reporter roundtable with Joseph Spector, the Albany Bureau Chief for Gannett, and...
View ArticleAug. 24, 2015: Comptroller DiNapoli, Ed Farrell, Carol Burris
Comptroller DiNapoli looks at foreclosure rates in NYS. Ed Farrell, executive director of the Retired Public Employees Association, explains how retiree pensions affect the state’s economy. We discuss...
View ArticleComptroller DiNapoli on Wall Street Jitters
August 24-Albany—Wall Street may be seeing what stock market watchers call “a correction”, but it won’t impact the state’s $182.5 billion pension fund in the short term, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli told...
View ArticleAug. 25, 2015: Wayne Spence, Luna Droubi, Dennis Walcott, Michael Rebell
Wayne Spence, the new President of the Public Employees Federation (PEF), explains his vision for the union. We speak with Luna Droubi, an Associate at Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP, about the death...
View ArticleAug. 26, 2015: Utica nanotechnology, Cayuga Power Plant, Matthew McMorrow,...
The State is planning to invest $250 million on a nanotechnology hub in Utica. Sen. Joseph Griffo (R-Rome) looks at what the public/private partnership could do for the region. But E.J. McMahon, a...
View ArticleAug. 27, 2015: Christopher Amato, Sen. David Carlucci, NYSCOPBA, Blair Horner
Earthjustice Staff Attorney Christopher Amato discusses Western New York’s energy future. The cost of construction on the new Tappan Zee Bridge could spike tolls for commuters. To prevent that from...
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