Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie

New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie visited the Capital Region today as part of his ongoing statewide summer tour. WAMC’s Southern Adirondack…

New York state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was in the mid-Hudson Valley Thursday as part of his fourth annual statewide tour. He visited a center in…

There are only a couple of weeks to go before the New York state budget is due, and Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislature have a lot of decisions to make,…

With Democrats now set to control both houses of the New York State Legislature, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has laid out a framework for the term…

Evolving attitudes about marijuana are resonating among some elected officials in New York. Democratic state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters…

The New York legislative session is due to end in three weeks, and some state lawmakers believe they will accomplish so little in that time, that they are…

A top lawmaker in New York says that if the state legalizes recreational marijuana it should also consider expunging marijuana-related criminal records…

New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced plans for an open interview process for the legislature to appoint a new state Attorney General,…

The state Legislature's most powerful Democrat is planning to take another tour across New York state. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie of the Bronx…

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says the New York state Assembly will take up a bill Wednesday to decouple the results of standardized test scores from…