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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Monday Apr 25, 2011
Monday Apr 25, 2011
Same-sex marriage groups coalesce under an umbrella group, New Yorkers United for Marriage, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears prepared to lead a push for marriage equality legislation. Advocates see the current session as their best chance to pass gay marriage. Also, a new $57.5 million Department of Energy grant could make New York's Capital Region a center for solar power research and manufacturing.
Monday Apr 18, 2011
Monday Apr 18, 2011
Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy touts the state's passage of a budget that closed a $10 billion budget gap without raising taxes and says that school districts responding to a two percent cut by laying off teachers or cutting programs should look to potential management cuts instead. Duffy says the legislature and the governor will now work together on a property tax cap, rent reform and economic development.
Monday Apr 11, 2011
Monday Apr 11, 2011
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver laments that New York State government did not include the 'millionaire's tax' in the recently-passed budget, saying that doing so could have saved teaching jobs. Gov. Andrew Cuomo responds that school districts should avoid cutting teachers by using rainy day funds to get them through to a budget increase next year. 'News flash,' says Cuomo. 'It's raining.'
Monday Apr 04, 2011
Monday Apr 04, 2011
New York's 2011-2012 budget caps spending on education and Medicaid and eliminates 3,700 prison beds to close this year's deficit without raising taxes and cuts next year's projected deficit from $15 billion to $2 billion. State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R) calls it a responsible budget, though protesters at the Capitol clearly disagree. 'New York NOW' offers analysis of the new budget.
Monday Mar 28, 2011
Monday Mar 28, 2011
Congressmen Chris Gibson (R) and Paul Tonko (D) agree on the need to reduce the federal budget deficit, but diverge on how to do so. The two representatives also agree on the importance of nuclear safety regulations in New York, but veer apart on health care law. Also, Casey Seiler and Karen DeWitt analyze Gov. Andrew Cuomo's aggressive demand for an on-time budget from the state legislature.
Monday Mar 21, 2011
Monday Mar 21, 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Edmund Morris discusses his third volume on Theodore Roosevelt, the boisterous former president and New York governor. Moving from history to the present day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver say they are making progress on the state budget as Cuomo asks school districts to find budget efficiencies.
Monday Mar 14, 2011
Monday Mar 14, 2011
State Senator Carl Kruger and Assemblyman William Boyland, both Brooklyn Democrats, face federal corruption charges. Also, an Innovation Trail report focuses on a Hudson Valley business--the Taylor Biomass Energy project--preparing to deliver alternative energy via the first commercial biomass gasification plant. But the plant's $100 million federal loan falls to spending cuts in Washington, D.C.
Monday Mar 07, 2011
Monday Mar 07, 2011
When Democrats controlled the New York State Senate last year, many members of both major parties agreed to a proposal by former New York City Mayor Ed Koch's NY Uprising group to support independent redistricting in order to end gerrymandering. With Republicans back in control, Majority Leader Dean Skelos seems to back off. 'I was surprised that Dean would run out on his agreement,' Koch says.
Monday Feb 28, 2011
Monday Feb 28, 2011
Saying New York must 'make health care a team sport,' State Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson unveils the results of his Medicaid reform panel. The proposal includes the creation of a global cap on Medicaid in New York and limitations on medical malpractice lawsuits. Also, we explore 'Complete Streets' legislation backed by the AARP; is the bill a necessity, an unfunded mandate, or both?
Tuesday Feb 22, 2011
Tuesday Feb 22, 2011
As Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy defends Gov. Cuomo's proposed budget, which includes reductions to state aid to schools, New York City Schools Chancellor Cathie Black says the proposal is 'just unjust' and would violate a court order requiring New York to increase its investment in public schools. Also, an Innovation Trail report examines incentives to do business in New York to boost economic development.
