Liz Benjamin

Liz Benjamin: Crying Wolf?

Liz Benjamin — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:19:26 +0000

The following is a direct quote from Gov. Andrew Cuomo:

"New Yorkers deserve a clean and transparent government comprised of officials who work for the people, not for the special interests and certainly not for their own corrupt self-interests."

Liz Benjamin: Trouble For "Senator #1"

Liz Benjamin — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:20:00 +0000

Et Tu, Shirley?

Since the revelation that former Bronx Assemblyman Nelson Castro had been working as a double agent for federal prosecutors for almost the entire duration of his four years in office, the most popular political parlor game in Albany has been trying to guess who else might be wearing a wire.

Liz Benjamin: The Future of Wilson Pakula

Liz Benjamin — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:20:00 +0000

Why is Governor Andrew Cuomo trying to neuter the leaders of New York’s most prominent minor political parties?

Liz Benjamin: Another Corruption Scandal Rocks Albany

Liz Benjamin — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:03:41 +0000

In the wake of last week’s back-to-back corruption scandals that rocked New York politics, everyone’s looking for someone to blame.

Liz Benjamin: The Big Ugly

Liz Benjamin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:20:00 +0000

Governor Cuomo's supposedly no drama budget is coming to a rather dramatic end.

The Senate held a rare weekend session – on Palm Sunday, no less – to pass a limited number of budget bills, while the Assembly, citing the Passover holiday that starts at sundown tonight, refused to return to Albany until Thursday.

Liz Benjamin: Light and Shade

Liz Benjamin — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:20:00 +0000

Governor Cuomo made a big show last week of marking Sunshine Week - a national initiative launched in 2005 by the American Society of News Editors to highlight the importance of open government and the dangers of excessive and unnecessary secrecy.

Liz Benjamin: Bread and Politics

Liz Benjamin — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:30:00 +0000

Today's Siena poll brings some bad news for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, finding his job approval rating has continued its downward trajectory and bottomed out at 54 percent - its lowest point since he took office in January 2011.

Things aren't completely cloudy for the governor, however. His favorability rating is better than two-to-one, ND well above that magic 50 percent mark.

Also, New Yorkers broadly support Cuomo's top legislative agenda items this year.

On inauguration day, YNN's Benjamin checks in from Washington

Ian Pickus — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:06:00 +0000

WAMC's Ian Pickus speaks with Liz Benjamin, host of YNN's Capital Tonight and a WAMC commentator, who is in Washington to cover today's presidential inauguration.

Liz Benjamin - Fracking in New York

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:38:47 +0000

Last Friday was the deadline for comments to be lodged with the DEC on its most recent set of regulations for the controversial natural gas drilling process known as hydrofracking.

Predictably, the well-organized and vociferous anti-fracking crowd seized on the opportunity to make yet another public plea to Governor Andrew Cuomo that he reject the idea of drilling in the Marcellus Shale.

Liz Benjamin: Gun control battle is joined

Liz Benjamin — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:05:34 +0000

Gov. Andrew Cuomo will deliver his third annual State of the State address Wednesday in the Empire State Plaza Convention Center.

A tip for first-time attendees: Don’t check your coat. The governor likes to keep things cold.

Cuomo has declined to keep up the tradition of official pre-speech leaks. But he has dropped hints about the topics he'll be discussing, including responses to the two highest-profile tragedies of recent months: Superstorm Sandy and the Sandy Hook massacre.