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April 23, 2025 - New York State Attorney General Letitia James is going after de facto payday lending operations that she claims are engaging in abusive and deceptive practices. Andy Morrison, associate director of the New Economy Project, discusses the attorney general's lawsuit and makes the case for stricter regulations of online financial services. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com...

April 23, 2025 - Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest, a Brooklyn Democrat, talks about why kids in foster care need to be provided with luggage. The thousands of kids in the system without luggage, and how the problem could be addressed, was recently explored by The Imprint. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-c...

April 22, 2025 - New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang discusses a recent report on workers' compensation fraud investigations in 2024, which led to an increase in arrests and recovered payouts. 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...

April 22, 2025 - New York State Association of Counties Executive Director Stephen Acquario calls on state policymakers to stop siphoning off funds intended for New York's 9-1-1 system in order to pay for critical upgrades to the emergency network. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-im...

April 21, 2025 - We get an update on the Trump administration's decision to take control of the long-stalled overhaul of Penn Station, Our guest, Stephen Nessen, a transportation reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, explains what had been happening under the Metropolitan Transit Authority and identifies some of the big questions moving forward. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?epis...

April 21, 2025 - State Senator Rachel May, a Syracuse Democrat, and Assembly Member Alex Bores, a Manhattan Democrat, make the case for allowing a handful of municipalities to transition how they tax land in an attempt to promote growth and shift the local tax burden. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=...

April 21, 2025 - Antony Gemmell, supervising attorney with the Prisoners' Rights Project at the Legal Aid Society, discusses a lawsuit against the Hochul Administration's pause on parts of a state law restricting the use of solitary confinement in New York prisons. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=tru...

April 18, 2025 - New York League of Conservation Voters President Julie Tighe responds to the Trump administration hitting pause on the construction of an offshore wind project along Long Island that was expected to be in operation next year and power about 500,000 homes. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continu...

April 18, 2025 - In order to improve the processing of sex offense evidence, legislation has been introduced to ensure that rape kits processed at hospitals are part of a statewide tracking system and are addressed by law enforcement in a timely manner. Our guest is Ilse Knecht, director of policy and advocacy at the Joyful Heart Foundation. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?epi...

April 18, 2025 - Gabrielle Lerner, president of the Student Government Association at Empire State University, makes the case for codifying a student bill of rights for SUNY and CUNY students. 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=...

April 18, 2025 - New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli discusses an audit of more than $450 million of medical equipment purchased by the state in the early days of the pandemic and has gone almost completely unused. He also addresses why his office didn't conduct this review years earlier. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show...

April 17, 2025 - Assemblymember Scott Gray, a North Country Republican, discusses his role in helping a family of constituents who were detained and brought to Texas by federal immigration officials. 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...

April 17, 2025 - Assemblymember D. Billy Jones, a North Country Democrat, discusses the prison landscape in New York and makes the case for hiring prison guards dismissed earlier this year. We also talk about the potential closing of additional facilities, the high-profile killings in central New York prisons, and much more. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&...

April 16, 2025 - We get an update on the transition of the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program from Katelyn Cordero, a health care reporter with Politico 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...

April 16, 2025 - Assemblymember Robert Smullen, a Mohawk Valley Republican, defends the Trump Administration's approach to tariffs and argues that increased tariffs could benefit American manufacturing and the federal government's coffers. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&...

April 15, 2025 - Alexandra Fitz, head of the enterprise initiatives and partnership for the New York eHealth Collaborative, explains an effort to improve the flow of health care records among providers all over the state and public health officials. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-i...

April 15, 2025 - Protect the Adirondacks Executive Director Claudia Braymer discusses an amendment to the state constitution making its way through Albany that would ensure that upgrades to a Lake Placid-area sports complex are in line with the state constitution's Adirondack protections. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&amp...

April 15, 2025 - Politico New York health care reporter Maya Kaufman shares her findings from a deep dive into the spending of 1199 SEIU. Her reporting exposes how the union's president, George Gresham, and his close associates have personally benefited from the organization. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-con...

April 15, 2025 - A handful of state agencies have room for improving their standards and practices governing artificial intelligence use, according to an audit by the state comptroller's office. We break down their findings and recommendations with Tina Kim, deputy comptroller in the division of state government accountability for the comptroller's office. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker...

April 14, 2025 -Regional Food Bank President CEO Tom Nardacci talks about a newly opened training kitchen and explains how Republicans in Washington D.C. could exacerbate New York's food insecurity problems. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right...

April 14, 2025 - Jihoon Kim, CEO of InUnity Alliance, makes the case for using additional federal dollars to support mental health and substance abuse services. He also talks about a cost of living raise for nonprofits and shares concerns about the Trump administration. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuou...

April 14, 2025 - State Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Board Chair Debra Pantin discusses the flow of settlement funds, the board's future, and the impact of the Trump administration policies on overdose deaths. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuous=true&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=r...

April 11, 2025 - Assembly Children and Families Committee Chair Andrew Hevesi, a Queens Democrat, discusses what he's hoping to get inserted into the final state budget to help working families. 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-log...

April 11, 2025 - Emily Eisner, chief economist with the Fiscal Policy Institute, discusses the various ideas on how to tackle the extra billions of dollars that businesses have been asked to pay as a result of unprecedented unemployment benefits paid out five years ago. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&playlist=show&playlist-continuou...

April 11, 2025 - The state budget adopted in 2024 included a much needed rate increase for early intervention providers, but that support hasn't been realized and the Hochul administration has implemented cuts to reimbursements, according to Brigit Hurley, chief program officer for The Children's Agenda. ESCUCHAR RADIO  👉https://widget.spreaker.com/player?episode_id=70730354&theme=light&p...