Capitol Confidential
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The Capitol Confidential podcast is a weekly show from the Times Union that focuses on the policy, personalities and politics of New York's state government.
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MAR 8, 2021
Broken Bolts
The Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge is a 3-mile span over the Hudson river that connects Rockland and Westchester counties, just 25 miles north of New York City. It's a major commuter route, and bears hundreds of thousands of vehicle crossings each...
25 MIN
MAR 5, 2021
A Perfect Storm over Albany
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing perfect storm of threats to his administration, finding himself both in the crosshairs of an investigation by the FBI and the Justice Department into his handling of nursing home deaths due to COVID-19, and...
22 MIN
FEB 19, 2021
Nursing home scandal roils Cuomo administration
A recent admission by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s top aide, Secretary Melissa DeRosa, that they withheld nursing home coronavirus data to state legislators over fear that President Donald J. Trump would use the data against New York continues to roil the...
34 MIN
JAN 29, 2021
A Scathing Report
New York Attorney General Letitia James released a searing report this week finding that the state Department of Health underreported the deaths of nursing home residents who died from COVID-19 by as much as 50 percent. The 76-page report follows a...
19 MIN
JAN 22, 2021
A Tale of Two Budget Proposals
This week, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo unveiled . Both are contingent upon how much New York state receives from the federal government. Cuomo even threatened to sue if the state doesn't get the $15 billion in federal aid that he has requested. That's enough...
30 MIN
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