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NYS news of the week: The clock's ticking on unsigned bills, and the race for governor has a new face

Jimmy Vielkind, of the New York Public News Network
Courtesy Jimmy Vielkind, WNYC
Jimmy Vielkind, of the New York Public News Network

Gov. Kathy Hochul is working through dozens of bills as the year winds down. Plus, a new candidate for governor emerges from Long Island. WAMC’s Andrew Waite spoke about this and more with the New York Public News Network’s Jimmy Vielkind in their weekly state politics conversation.

Andrew Waite has worked as The Daily Gazette’s featured news columnist, an editor at Alaska Airlines magazine, and in community newspapers in Montana and Alaska. He is a graduate of Albany High School and Boston University’s journalism school, and he returned to the Capital Region with his wife, daughter and son in 2021.