August 2, 2024 - Debra Pantin, chair of the state's Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Board, provides an update on the panel's work, including how they're preparing for diminishing resources to commit to the opioid epidemic.

August 8, 2024 - Assemblymember Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, a Queens Democrat, discusses a bill designed to more accurately collect data about New Yorkers of Middle Eastern and North African descent, who are currently lumped in with "white" people for demographic purposes by the state.

August 2, 2024 - State lawmakers are looking to make it cheaper for energy utilities to pay for storm recovery costs, but the state's former top utility regulator, John Howard, has some words of warning about the idea.

August 2, 2024 - State Board of Elections spokesperson Kathleen McGrath provides an update on the state's public campaign finance program, including changes to the system based on the experience with the primaries

August 1, 2024 - Assemblymember Karines Reyes, a Bronx Democrat, discusses retail worker safety, including tougher criminal penalties and workplace training to avoid violence.

August 1, 2024 - We discuss the governor's plan to close two upstate prisons, and potentially more this year, with Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections Committee Chair Julia Salazar, a Brooklyn Democrat.

July 31, 2024 - For decades public school districts have been required to transport students at private schools, but a recent court ruling imposes some new limits on when they're required, according to Jay Worona, deputy executive director and general counsel for the New York State School Boards Association.

July 31, 2024 - New York League of Conservation Voters President Julie Tighe thinks the Hochul administration needs a Climate Czar to oversee the state's effort to realize the statutory goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New York.

August 1, 2024 - Dror Ladin, a senior attorney at Earthjustice, explains why a 2019 law intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and a recent update to the state constitution are at the root of his organization's lawsuit against the Hochul administration's indefinite pause on congestion pricing in Manhattan, which was supposed to take effect on June 30.

July 30, 2024 - Without generous federal subsidies, flood insurance can be cost prohibitive for New Yorkers, so the state legislature wants to explore the cost of this coverage and how the state government could support an expanded flood insurance market. We discuss the possible future of flood insurance with Brad Lachut, director of government affairs for the Professional Insurance Agents of New York.