By Albany standards, it has been a rocky start to the New York state legislative session, with Governor Kathy Hochul’s pick for chief judge rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee and ongoing disagreement about how to approach public safety. Hochul delivers her state budget plan this week. We catch up with Capitol Correspondent Karen DeWitt.
We preview Town Meeting Day in Vermont Tuesday with Middlebury College political science professor Bert Johnson, who hopes the old-fashioned tradition will continue.
We return to Troy for Sunday’s 11,000-person rally against police brutality, and we speak with the city’s mayor about the new Police Objective Review...
We speak with former New York state Senator Mike Martucci, the new Region 2 administrator for the EPA.