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Howie Hawkins has become a familiar name on the gubernatorial ballot.  

The Syracuse-area resident and Green Party candidate is taking up the charge for the third consecutive election cycle.  He said earlier this year he preferred not to run again but admitted the party struggled to find someone else to lead the way.   

Our Karen DeWitt sat down with him on a recent visit to Albany.

The national debt currently stands at over $21 trillion and is rising, yet you are unlikely to hear much about it on the campaign trail this fall. Two former members of Congress are trying to change the conversation. Chris Gibson (R-Hudson Valley) and Jim Slattery (D-Kansas) join us in-studio to draw attention to the ongoing deficits and dysfunction in Washington.

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Miner is the former two-term Syracuse mayor and co-chair of the state's Democratic Party, but she says there is no room for her anymore there under the leadership of Andrew Cuomo.  She is making the independent run alongside her lieutenant governor pick Michael Volpe, a downstate Republican mayor.

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Governor Andrew Cuomo handily won in a Democratic primary against actor Cynthia Nixon. Cuomo’s current lieutenant governor Kathy Hochul also won, as did Cuomo’s choice for attorney general New York City Public Advocate Tish James. While Cuomo and the other statewide candidates who ran with him kept their seats, some former members of IDC in the Senate lost to their primary challengers.

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Our latest pop-up podcast is with New York State Attorney General candidate Zephyr Teachout, one of four people looking to win the Democratic nod this coming Thursday.  

Teachout, touting her independence, says she will investigate some of the blurred lines she sees in the Cuomo administration between official government work and politics.  She also touches on the recent back and forths with fellow candidate Sean Patrick Maloney and her reaction to being referred to as "professor" by her opponents. 

Don't forget to tune in this weekend when we wrap up Primary Day.

Attorney General candidate Leecia Eve sits down to discuss her experience, her jobs working for the likes of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Andrew Cuomo and finally, why "scholarly work" (a criticism of fellow candidate Zephyr Teachout) doesn't equate to her time in the courtroom.

 

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Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul has been hitting the campaign trail hard this summer as she is facing a challenge from New York City Council Member Jumaane Williams.  The incumbent has spent the majority of her time this summer in the five boroughs, where Williams is most well-known.

 

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Four Democrats are vying for the primary win on September 13th, including Hudson Valley Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney. He finished second in the recent Siena College poll trailing only New York City Advocate Tish James. Hear the candidate talk about his campaign and why he's the best fit for the job.

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This week on NYN we'll analyze the two biggest stories of the week: Donald Trump's first visit to Upstate New York since becoming president and the gaffe that gave Andrew Cuomo unwanted national headlines.

Jimmy Vielkind of Politico, who was in Utica for the president's fundraiser, and Karen DeWitt of New York State Public Radio help us break it down at the Reporters Roundtable.

Take a look at how the city of Plattsburgh made national news this year by putting a moratorium on any new cryptocurrency mining. Visit the rural Montgomery County town of Root, where a same-sex couple confronts the county clerk that denied them a marriage license. Also, Learn about the recent arrest of Rep. Chris Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse Donald J. Trump for president.

 

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