NYS News of the Week with Jimmy Vielkind

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Andrew Waite

Published October 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM EDT

Incumbent New York City Mayor Eric Adams has dropped his re-election bid, but he’s now announced he wants to see former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent, succeed him. WAMC’s Andrew Waite and Jimmy Vielkind, of the New York Public News Network, broke down the endorsement, as well as some of the week's other big political stories.

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Andrew Waite

Andrew Waite is WAMC’s news director. His journalism career dates to 2009, when he was a cub reporter for community newspapers in Montana and Alaska. He has since worked as an editor at the inflight magazine for Seattle-based Alaska Airlines and as the featured news columnist for The Daily Gazette in Schenectady. Andrew has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Boston University, an MFA in creative writing from Pacific University and is a proud Albany High School graduate. He's honored to be back home helping to cover news in the Capital Region, where he lives with his wife, daughter and son.

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