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I wish I could say I was cut out for The Legislative Gazette from day one. The truth is, the first month almost seemed like a recurring nightmare. Every time I drove up to Albany I nearly got lost, and I was terrible at finding my way to a convenient […]
“Make sure you bring your own typewriter.” That was among the last instructions I got as I signed up for this new adventure call The Legislative Gazette. We were already a few weeks into the spring semester. I was restless and ready to rethink my college career. Again. I had […]
Working at the Gazette had a significant impact on my life, both at the time and through the years since. I was a reporter for the paper in 1979, and then came back in 1980 and ’81 as a “City Editor” who helped new interns learn their way around the […]
Glenn Doty, a former reporter and managing editor for the daily Middletown Times Herald Record and a respected SUNY New Paltz Journalism professor for many years, was the first news editor of the Legislative Gazette. Over the course of 23 years, Glenn taught his ever-changing groups of interns the basics […]
As I remember it, I thought up the idea of The Legislative Gazette towards the end of 1977. I was in the shower when the idea came to me. I was already running the highly regarded New Paltz internship in New York State government as a professor in the Political […]
The 1993 Winter/Spring Legislative Gazette internship started off with a bang. My first night in Albany, as my roommate and I tried to return home from our first grocery shopping trip, what was rain when we left our basement apartment, turned to ice. Although we tried to make our way […]
Sometime during the fall of 1981, my junior year at SUNY New Paltz, I had a meeting with Professor Glenn Doty. I really wanted to participate in The Legislative Gazette program but he told me I wasn’t ready, probably because I wasn’t doing so great in his class and my […]
I interned for The Legislative Gazette in 1988. Ten other college students joined me. Nothing prepared me for this experience. I don’t want to speak for the others, but they would probably say the same thing. College journalism was one thing — the state Capitol was another. Glenn Doty was […]