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September 18, 2025- State Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner Jackie Bray discusses the risk of political violence in New York and considers how the political discourse can contribute to violence. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&episode_image_positio...

September 17, 2025- New York State Coalition for Children's Behavioral Health President & CEO Kayleigh Zaloga discusses a settlement with the Hochul administration that requires increased state investment in Medicaid rates for child mental health services. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&amp...

September 17, 2025-A new survey by the Siena Research Institute takes the temperature of New Yorkers on public safety and the performance of President Donald Trump. Our guest is Siena pollster Steve Greenberg. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=rig...

September 17, 2025- The Trump administration and their Republican allies in Congress are ending federal subsidies for green initiatives, like tax credits for electric vehicles, so we examine the fallout of these shifting priorities with Doreen Harris, president and CEO of New York State Energy Research & Development Authority. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=707...

September 17, 2025- LifeSciencesNY Executive Director Winthrop Thurlow warns that New York's plans to be on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence development could be undermined by the wrong regulatory approach. We discuss efforts to regulate this evolving industry and how AI could boost health care services. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=...

September 17, 2025- Mental Health Association in New York State CEO Glenn Liebman makes the case for establishing a commission to oversee the reduction in the number of psychiatric hospitals  in the Empire State. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=...

September 17, 2025- Assemblymember Jessica Gonzláez-Rojas, a Queens Democrat, discusses her legislation requiring state health officials to proactively disseminate and promote information about reproductive health care in New York, including abortion services and financial support. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playli...

September 17, 2025- Legislation awaiting the governor's signature would potentially make formerly incarcerated New Yorkers eligible to be hired for preferred source employment opportunities. We consider the ramifications of this idea with Maureen O'Brien, president and CEO New York State Industries for the Disabled. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme...

September 17, 2025- Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden talks about legislation tweaking the tax cap for municipalities to incentivize investments in emergency medical services. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=true&h...

September 12, 2025- In light of an investigation by the state attorney general's office revealing dangerous neglect by a nursing home operator in Syracuse, we explore the oversight of nursing facilities with Richard Mollot, executive director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&pla...

September 12, 2025- New York State of Health Executive Director Danielle Holahan explains how the Hochul administration is responding to federal changes that impact how the state provides health insurance coverage for 1.7 million low-income New Yorkers. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapte...

September 12, 2025- Child care providers have been sounding the alarm about a staffing crisis for years, so we check in on the status of the workforce and their need for investment with Alicia Marks, owner and operator for Marks of Excellence Childcare and Dede Hill, vice president of policy at the Schuyler Center for Analysis & Advocacy. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?ep...

September 11, 2025- The Medical Society of the State of New York is shining a spotlight on its longstanding complaint about delayed and limited payments approved by health insurers. We talk about their effort to get paid with the group's executive vice president, Dr. Thomas Lee. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-...

September 11, 2025- State financial regulators continued the tradition this summer of approving premium increases for the individual and small group health insurance plans offered in the state marketplace, so we examine how we got to this point of escalating costs and consider what the future offerings will look like. Our guest is Paul Francis, chair of The Two Step Policy Project. ESCUCHAR RADIO ...

Sept. 10, 2025 - Assemblymember Pamela Hunter, a Syracuse Democrat, makes the case for updating the risk assessment tool used to classify sex offenders in New York. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=true&hide-likes=true&amp...

September 9, 2025- The state Public Service Commission and New York's regulated energy providers are getting a lot of negative attention this summer for proposed rate hikes and negotiated cost increases. We consider what is driving prices up for energy consumers and evaluate some of the proposals to control out-of-pocket costs with Laurie Wheelock, executive director and general counsel of the Pub...

September 8. 2025-In light of two defunct gas pipeline proposals getting new life under the Hochul administration, we explore their initial permitting process under then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and consider what is being proposed now. Our guest is Susan Kraham, managing attorney with Earthjustice. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&...

September 5, 2025- SUNY Chancellor John King gives an update on the state's effort to place adults in high-demand degrees at community colleges. He also talks about the structural deficits at some SUNY campuses and addresses the possibility of SUNY drawing the ire of the Trump administration. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show...

September 5, 2025- We consider how many doctors getting trained in New York actually stay in New York (and why), with the help of David Armstrong, project director at the Center for Health Workforce Studies for the University at Albany. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&amp...

Sept. 5, 2025 - The longtime leader of CSEA, Danny Donohue, passed away this summer, so we wanted to explore how he wielded power, his brash style, and whether anyone was picking up his mantle in Planet Albany. For all that insight we tapped into the institutional knowledge and insights of Liz Benjamin, a former journalist and now a big deal for Marathon Strategies. (This is an excerpt of Dispatch...

September 3, 2025- New York prison officials are looking to update their procedures for reviewing mail sent from lawyers to their clients behind bars, so we consider the ramifications with Antony Gemmell, supervising attorney with the Prisoners' Rights Project at The Legal Aid Society. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&pl...

September 3, 2025- We get an update on the state's use of road salt and alternative methods for keeping drivers safe in the winter with Rob Fitch, director of the Office of Transportation Maintenance for the state Department of Transportation. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=t...

September 3, 2025- New York State School Boards Association Executive Director Robert Schneider discusses how districts can address a teacher shortage and explains how school boards prepared to implement smartphone restrictions in schools this fall. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-i...

September 3, 2025- Food Industry Alliance of New York State President & CEO Mike Durant weighs in on legislation intended to let New Yorkers know if they're paying more for groceries they order online compare to shopping in a store. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&amp...

September 2, 2025- We check in on the implementation of the state's "bell-to-bell" smartphone restrictions in schools with Bob Lowery, deputy director for advocacy, research, and communications at the New York Council of School Superintendents, and Dr. Donna DeSiato, superintendent of the East Syracuse Minoa Central School District. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=7...