Assemblywoman Pat Fahy

Officials in Albany County have announced their appointees to a board that will work to decide the future of the shuttered College of Saint Rose.

(Airs 12/22/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Hochul signs a measure to look at potential reparations for New Yorker's whose ancestors suffered under slavery in the state. We’ll speak with Assemblymember Pat Fahy, Chair of the Higher Education committee; and local officials celebrate the completion of the first phase of construction of the Adirondack Rail Trail.

(Airs 12/01/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: advocates want Governor Hochul to sign a bill that would shift the date of local elections from odd numbered years to even ones, we take a look at the rise in hunger across the state, a new report from Attorney General Letitia James finds significant racial disparities in home ownership across the state, and there’s new legislation aimed at growing and improving statewide trail access.

Since last spring close to 100,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York City. In early May, Mayor Eric Adams announced plans to begin busing asylum seekers upstate. By the end of the month buses reached the Capital Region. No one was prepared for what happened next.

It could be days or weeks before the New York state budget is passed, keeping people and organizations tied to state government on hold.

Upstate lawmakers are reacting to the $227 billion budget proposal New York Governor Kathy Hochul delivered on Wednesday.

New York state Assemblywoman Pat Fahy was joined by Capital Region clergy this week to introduce legislation that would require private creditors to join debt relief initiatives for poor nations at the same level as the U.S. government and public creditors.

A losing 2021 Albany mayoral candidate is now running for the New York state Assembly.

NYS Assemblywoman Pat Fahy spoke with WAMC News.

Elected officials from around the Capital Region gathered in Cohoes Thursday to discuss new capital funding in the state budget meant to help…