A fiscal watchdog group is using the Freedom of Information Law to try to get New York state’s health department to release more detailed data on the over 42,000 New Yorkers who died during the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, our political observer Dr. Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the NYC Board of Elections. At a rally, last weekend outside the governor’s mansion in Albany, activists and elected officials demanded an increase in clemencies granted to the incarcerated.
The two chambers of the New York state Legislature release their proposed budgets. Our political observer Alan Chartock speaks with newly elected and returning...