Covering the politics, policies and people of New York State government.
Hours after a Supreme Court opinion striking down Roe v. Wade was leaked to the news media, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins pledged that New York would continue to be a safe haven for women seeking an abortion. Outside her office on the third floor of the Capitol on Tuesday […]
To the editor: After the Court of Appeals tossed out the redistricting maps for congressional and state Senate seats, the new date of the primary has been scheduled for August 23rd. I think this is a form of voter suppression. I believe that the New York State Legislature should petition […]
New York’s Democratic leaders are reacting with shock and anger to a leaked first draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision apparently overturning Roe v Wade written by Justice Samuel Alito. Alito wrote the draft opinion to Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which was leaked to Politico on May […]
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that she is appointing Representative Antonio Delgado to serve as lieutenant governor of New York. Delgado currently represents New York’s 19th Congressional District, which includes the Hudson Valley and Catskills. Delgado is Afro-Latino, the first person of color to represent upstate New York in Congress […]
Andrew Cuomo has now officially missed the boat. He had his shot, but his former lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, seems to be where she wants to be. She’s a smart woman and unlike Cuomo, she has not accumulated a lot of enemies and seems set for reelection. It would take […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James held a virtual press conference on April 19 to announce the first round of payments from statewide opioid settlements for the Capital Region. The funds are the result of the $1.5 billion that James secured for New York so far as a result of […]
The Senate passed the Adult Survivors Act (S.66/A.648), sponsored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Brad Hoylman and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal. The legislation would create a one-year window for the revival of time-barred civil lawsuits based on sex crimes committed against individuals who were 18 years of age or older. On […]
The New York State Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled that the proposed congressional and New York State Senate election district lines were improperly drawn and is ordering that new ones be drawn by a nonpartisan special master. “The enactment of the congressional and Senate maps by the Legislature was […]
