Dan Clark
Host, New York NOWDan Clark is the host and producer of New York NOW, a weekly television show focusing on state government produced by WMHT in Albany. Clark has been reporting on New York state government and politics for the last six years, during which time he's worked out of the state Capitol in Albany. Clark reported for the national political fact-checking publication PolitiFact, the Buffalo News, the statewide political television show Capital Tonight, and most recently the New York Law Journal. At the New York Law Journal, Clark has focused on state legal challenges to President Donald Trump, as well as litigation concerning laws enacted by the New York State Legislature. Clark covered the Legislature in each role he's held and is a familiar face to state lawmakers and staff. Clark is a native of Afton, NY in Chenango County. He's lived in Albany with his husband since 2011.
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New York will have to continue allowing health care workers to seek religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine, a federal judge in Utica wrote in a decision released early Tuesday. -
New York’s public colleges and universities began de-registering students this week who’ve decided against getting vaccinated after the SUNY system’s 35-day grace period for that requirement expired on Monday.
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Dr. Mary T. Bassett will be the next commissioner of the state Department of Health, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday, making her the next top official in New York to lead the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday that she’s prepared to declare a state of emergency if the state’s vaccine mandate for the health care industry results in an unmanageable shortage of workers when the rule goes into effect Monday.
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Dr. Howard Zucker, the head of the state Department of Health who led the agency through the COVID-19 pandemic and came under fire for decisions related to that crisis, has submitted his resignation from office, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday.
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While New York has worked to expand access to voting and the fair handling of elections in recent years, those changes have put new pressure on boards of elections across the state that weren't set up to handle that shift, state elections officials said Tuesday.
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While the state Legislature considers ways to bolster enforcement of the state’s ethics laws for public officials, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that the current system of enforcing those rules is “flawed,” and that she wants to “turn it upside down.”
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New York could be headed toward a staffing crisis in the health care sector if more workers don’t get vaccinated, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday, as the state’s COVID-19 numbers continue to rise amid the Delta variant.
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New York will receive federal emergency relief funding to address the devastation caused downstate this week by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which caused major flooding throughout parts of New York City and its suburban counties.
