Karen Dewitt
NYS Capitol CorrespondentKaren DeWitt is Capitol Bureau chief for New York State Public Radio, a network of public radio stations in New York state. She has covered state government and politics for the network since 1990.
She is also a regular contributor to the statewide public television program about New York State government, New York Now. She appears on the reporter’s roundtable segment, and interviews newsmakers.
Karen previously worked for WINS Radio, New York, and has written for numerous publications, including Adirondack Life and the Albany newsweekly Metroland.
She is a past recipient of the prestigious Walter T. Brown Memorial award for excellence in journalism, from the Legislative Correspondents Association, and was named Media Person of the Year for 2009 by the Women’s Press Club of New York State.
Karen is a graduate of the State University of New York at Geneseo.
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New York Attorney General Tish James is urging the state legislature to pass a bill to set up a $50 million fund to pay for abortion services for people who come to New York for the procedure from other states. She says it’s even more urgent after the leaked draft opinion suggesting the US Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade. -
Advocates of a measure to permit terminally ill people to request medication to end their lives say it’s long past time for New York to join ten other states and allow the practice. -
Governor Kathy Hochul says she’ll ask the federal government for aid to deal with the expected surge of people seeking abortions in New York, if the Supreme Court acts on a draft opinion striking down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. -
One day after a leaked U.S. Supreme Court document indicated that the court is poised to strike down the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade, New York Governor Kathy Hochul strongly defended a woman’s right to choose abortion, rallying with Planned Parenthood and supporters at the Capitol in Albany. -
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is tapping Congressman Antonio Delgado as her new lieutenant governor. Delgado is a fellow Democrat from New York’s swing 19th district. He was first elected to the Hudson Valley seat in 2018. -
New York Governor Kathy Hochul reacted to the Politico report that the U.S. Supreme Court has voted to overturn the landmark abortion rights decision Roe v Wade, saying New York will help women from states where the procedure is outlawed. -
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed legislation to allow former lieutenant governor Brian Benjamin to remove his name from the Democratic primary ballot. Benjamin says he’ll file the necessary paperwork to make that a reality. -
New York voters will likely end up going to the polls three times this year, now that the state’s highest court has thrown out new district lines for Congressional and state Senate seats, likely delaying primaries originally scheduled for June. -
New York’s highest court has struck down the state’s new district lines for Congress and the state Senate, throwing the June 28th primary into question.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul is getting some blowback from a bill that would remove former lieutenant governor Brian Benjamin from the June primary ballot.
