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May 15, 2025 - Common Sense Media Senior Counsel for Tech Policy Holly Grosshans and Counsel for Tech Policy Brenna Leasor discuss a package of bills designed to keep New Yorkers, especially kids, safe as they navigate social media and utilize artificial intelligence companions. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-...

May 15, 2025 - Assemblymember Chuck Lavine, a Long Island Democrat, makes the case for a leadership shakeup at Nassau University Medical Center, the largest public safety net hospital on Long Island. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hid...

May 14, 2025 - Lev Ginsburg, executive director of the New York State Conference of Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans, makes the case for legislation promoting hospital cost transparency and increasing prescription drug purchasing options. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&e...

May 14, 2025 - Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan and New York State Power Authority President and CEO Justin Driscoll discuss their collaboration on the development of a solar farm at a closed landfill in the capital city. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&episode_image_positi...

May 14, 2025 - We consider what the recently adopted state budget means for New York's public colleges and universities with SUNY Chancellor John King, who talks about operating aid for campuses, free community college, and the Trump administration's attack on higher education. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-c...

May 13, 2025 - Senate Deputy Majority Leader Mike Gianaris, a Queens Democrat, discusses what his conference got into the state budget, weighs in on the possibility of reforming the budget process, and talks about the governor's authority to make mid-year spending changes. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-contin...

May 13, 2025 - Mental Health Association in New York State CEO Glenn Liebman talks about state budget funding for organizations contracting with the state to provide mental health services and outlines some of his group's legislative priorities for the rest of session. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous...

May 13, 2025 - Assemblyman Alex Bores, a Manhattan Democrat, makes the case for lifting the constitutional cap on state supreme court judges and describes legislation that would set the number of judges by a new formula. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&episode_image_p...

May 13, 2025 - New York was granted flexibility to spend some of its federal Medicaid dollars, but the Trump administration has indicated the waiver could be short lived. We discuss the ramifications of this decision with Michael Kinnucan, health policy director at the Fiscal Policy Institute. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=sho...

May 12, 2025 - Fountain House CEO Ken Zimmerman explains how clubhouses promote therapeutic social engagement for New Yorkers with serious mental illnesses and talks about their funding in the state budget. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&...

May 12, 2025 - We discuss the state budget's effect on public schools with Brian Fessler, chief advocacy officer for the New York State School Boards Association. We break down funding for public education, relaxing a transition to zero-emission school buses, and implementing free school meals. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=sh...

May 12, 2025 - Katie Schaefer, director of advocacy and organizing, at the Center for Community Alternatives, makes the case for eliminating fees in the criminal justice system, which she argues are predatory. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=rig...

May 12, 2025 - We explore the state's investment in Dolly Parton's Imagination Library with Jenn O'Connor, director of partnerships in early childhood policy for Education Trust-New York, and Peter Gannon, president and CEO at the United Way of the Greater Capital Region. The guests also weigh in on other elements of the state budget affecting kids. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/pl...

May 9, 2025 - Patrick Wildes, director of Albany Law School's Government Law Center, discusses language in the state budget making it easier for New Yorkers to be involuntarily committed and considers what the implementation will look like. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true...

May 9, 2025 - Rockefeller Institute of Government President Bob Megna, a former state budget director, talks about the power governors have to unilaterally control spending and addresses Gov. Kathy Hochul's expanded authority over budget cuts. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=t...

May 9, 2025 - We check in on the state of New York's marijuana landscape, including special showcase events, language in the state budget, and a backlog of license applications, with Joe Belluck, chair of the state's Cannabis Advisory Board. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=tru...

May 8, 2025 - Rose Duhan, president and CEO of the Community Healthcare Association of New York State, discusses how funding in the state budget and cuts to Americorps will impact the services provided by community healthcare centers. She also makes the case for expanding the scope of practice for health care professionals. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&a...

May 8, 2025 - Former Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy, now the president and CEO of the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce, discusses changes to the selection process of future lieutenant governors that was included in the state budget at the behest of Gov. Kathy Hochul, who had a public break with her number two. The Rochester Democrat also talks about a healthy relationship between a lieutenant governor an...

May 7, 2025 - State Sen. Dean Murray, a Long Island Republican, and Ken Pokalsky, a vice president of The Business Council of New York State, express their objections to an evolving plan to fund the state's share of a $68 billion capital plan for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which would include cutting the payroll tax for small New York City area businesses and raising it for large e...

May 7, 2025 - Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat, discusses some of her priorities in Albany, including getting harmful chemicals out of everyday products and limiting plastic packaging waste. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image...

May 7, 2025 - Assemblymember Robert Carroll, a Brooklyn Democrat, discusses legislation designed to limit sports gambling advertising and restrict how much can be bet in one day. 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-...

May 6, 2025 - A quiet campaign by an organized labor and a prolonged advocacy effort by the business community appears to have been successful in convincing state policymakers to pay off New York's multi-billion dollar unemployment insurance debt to the federal government. We consider the ramifications of the deal that is taking shape, including what it means for unemployment benefits in the futur...

May 6, 2025 - In order to foster climate-resilient communities, the state is promoting the planting of trees and shrubs along tributaries in New York. We explore what this effort looks like in the Hudson Valley with Beth Roessler, stream buffer coordinator for the Hudson River Estuary Program with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreake...

May 5, 2025 - After years of objections from governors and state budget officials, Democratic state lawmakers and housing stakeholders appear to have advanced their campaign for a state housing voucher program. We consider the pilot program that could be included in the state budget with Christine Quinn, president and CEO of WIN. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=7073...

May 5, 2025 - A new survey from the Siena College Research Institute examined how New Yorkers feel about the risk of climate change and some of the key environmental and energy questions being debated by the state policymakers. We break down the polling results with Travis Brodbeck, the organization's associate director of data management. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episo...