New York NOW
’New York NOW’ is New York State’s Emmy Award-winning, in-depth public affairs program, featuring news, interviews and analysis from the Capitol in Albany. Each week, ’New York NOW’ probes politicians, civil servants, journalists and others to examine the impact of public policy on residents of the Empire State.
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Friday Aug 16, 2019
Friday Aug 16, 2019
Danny Donohue, the longtime face and voice of the organization, sits down this week to discuss his memorable battles with several New York Governors and the future strength of unions after the recent Supreme Court ruling in the case Janus vs. AFSCME.
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Friday Aug 09, 2019
Friday Aug 09, 2019
This week on New York NOW, author David Woolner discuss his fascinating book on Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Marist College Professor and Senior Fellow and Resident Historian of the Roosevelt Institute describes in great detail the burdens the 32nd President felt in “The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and Peace.”
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Friday Aug 02, 2019
Friday Aug 02, 2019
Albany-area native Gordon Smith will discuss what he went through in his teenage years at his local church, how it affected him then and now, and why he's filing his lawsuit. Attorney Jennifer Freeman, Smith's lawyer, discusses the number of legal suits that her office is handling in anticipation of the mid-August date.
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Friday Jul 26, 2019
Friday Jul 26, 2019
The state has been in the process of making community connector trails for snowmobiling in the central and southeastern part of the park, but an injunction was put in place a few years ago that halted the proposed 27-mile stretch. Now the question is how big does a tree have to be in order to be spared for such a project?
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Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
This week at the historic racecourse, meet Dave O'Rourke, the new President and CEO of the New York Racing Association. NYRA's leadership in the last decade has had its share of issues. O'Rourke replaces Christopher Kay who resigned amid reports that he used NYRA employees to do maintenance work at his Saratoga Springs home.
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Friday Jul 12, 2019
Friday Jul 12, 2019
Catch up with Presidential candidate Senator Kirsten Gillibrand this week in the all-important state of New Hampshire, which is always the first primary for presidential candidates. She spent seven days in the Granite State, where she is also polling at less than one percent, visiting all ten counties in hopes of boosting her candidacy.
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Friday Jun 28, 2019
Friday Jun 28, 2019
H. Carl McCall was the first African-American elected to a statewide office when he ran for comptroller and the first to be nominated by a major party for governor. This weekend on the program, he looks back on his time in Albany as a politician, his battle with Andrew Cuomo for the party's gubernatorial nod in 2002, and growing up on welfare in Boston in the 1940's.
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Friday Jun 21, 2019
Friday Jun 21, 2019
It took an extra day, but the state legislative session has officially ended for 2019.
This week Jon Campbell of the USA Today Network joins us to analyze what was approved in the final days and what got left out and why. Visit New York NOW online for more.
Friday Jun 14, 2019
Friday Jun 14, 2019
Have you ever been driving along and seen an old and what looks like an abandoned cemetery? Have you ever wondered who's responsible? There's a good chance it's your local town and it's becoming an increasing problem for many municipalities.
Our feature story this week looks at the problem and what communities are facing from a financial perspective to upkeep these hallowed grounds.
Also, an expanded Reporters Roundtable featuring Josefa Velasquez of The City, Jimmy Vielkind of the Wall Street Journal and Karen DeWitt from New York State Public Radio analyze a wild week of news.
Join us on your local PBS station this weekend.
Friday Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
Former Congress members John Faso and Claudia Tenney were not fans of town halls, which in the past for some representatives across the country could turn into viral videos that were unflattering.
When their opponents, Anthony Brindisi and Antonio Delgado, beat them in 2018 the new members said they hold more of them. So far in 2019, they're living up to the promise.
We traveled to Herkimer County in Central New York and the Schoharie Valley to see how the Congressmen are making use of the town halls and what questions they are facing from constituents.
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