Congressman Lee Zeldin

(Airs 11/15/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: President-elect Donald Trump nominates former Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA, and New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik as UN Ambassador, Republican Assembly Minority Leader reacts to Governor Hochul reviving the Congestion Pricing plan for NYC, and we’ll look back in history at the progressive movement with lessons for today’s politics.

(Airs 11/15/24 & 11/17/24 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, former Times Union Associate Editor Mike Spain, WAMC News Director Ian Pickus and David Guistina, Media Project Producer, Morning Edition Anchor, and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Judy, Mike, Ian and David talk about press coverage of President-elect Trump’s Cabinet nominations from New York, and what treatment the media and journalists can expect from a second Trump Administration, and more.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul and her GOP challenger Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin will debate at 7 p.m. Tuesday

According to a new Siena College Research Institute poll, New York Governor Kathy Hochul holds a 52% to 41% lead over her Republican opponent, but Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin is making gains in some areas of the state.

Polls show crime is one of the top issues on voters’ minds in the midterm elections, but Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan says Zeldin’s approach misses the mark. Sheehan, a third-term Democrat who supports Hochul’s campaign, spoke with WAMC’s Ian Pickus.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin visited a pizza shop near the New York State Capitol in Albany Friday to discuss concerns over rising crime. The shop’s owner says the crime rate in his neighborhood may force him to close the location.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is defending a decision to buy over half a billion dollars in COVID-19 rapid tests from a campaign donor last winter. Her Republican opponents have seized on the issue ahead of November's election, and one government reform group says it merits an investigation.

New York Congressman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin says, even though he is opposed to abortion rights, he would not make big changes in the state’s abortion laws. But his opponent, Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, isn’t buying it.

New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin was in Colonie Tuesday to rally Republican supporters in the Capital Region.

Today marks a year since Kathy Hochul became New York’s governor. Hochul, who was lieutenant governor when former Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned last year, is now running for a full term, hoping to become the first woman elected to the post.