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An event in support of home-sharing services for New York City, namely Airbnb, turned into a shouting match between anti-homesharing protestors, home-sharing supporters and Danny Glover, who was meant to speak at the event but was shouted down and out of the area.
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 […]
Throughout the lifetime of The Legislative Gazette, interns have found themselves reporting on vastly different political climates at the Capitol. There are, however, two things I believe may be constants; beware the elevators on Tuesdays and Dr. Alan Chartock’s insistence that when we left our time at the paper, we […]
One day your life revolves around books and boring academic lectures. The next, you’re thrust into the real life epicenter of Empire State power and politics. That’s how I felt as one of the scrappy college kids embarking on an internship covering the state Capitol. The Legislative Gazette was a […]
Our very own Bryce Eckwall sat down with Jennifer Wilson, program and policy director for League of Women Voters of New York State, about why the organization is supporting a ‘yes’ vote on Proposal 2 on November 7th.