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.

July 30, 2024 - Starting this fall, certain election jurisdictions in New York that want to amend their election laws will need to get their changes pre-approved by the state attorney general's office or a state court. Jeff Wice, a senior fellow and adjunct professor with the New York Law School’s Census and Redistricting Institute, explains why this process was written into a 2022 state law and discusses how it could impact local elections.

July 30, 2024 - In light of former state Sen. Jim Seward's recent death, we are replaying an excerpt of our 2020 interview with the central New York Republican, when we discussed his career at the Capitol.