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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Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from Long Island running for governor, named former New York City Council Member Diana Reyna as his choice for lieutenant governor Wednesday, finalizing his preferred ticket heading into the June primary election.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday that she hasn’t decided if she’ll accept a recommendation from a state wage board to lower the number of hours farm workers have to work to earn overtime in New York.
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Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo will file a complaint with one of the state’s disciplinary boards for attorneys against New York Attorney General Letitia James over what his attorney has framed as inconsistencies with her office’s probe into his alleged sexual misconduct.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Tuesday that she’ll review the Legislature’s newly drawn district maps for Congress, State Senate, and Assembly when they’re sent to her for a signature, but wouldn’t weigh in on the new lines before then.
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New York’s mask mandate will continue through at least Feb. 10, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday, for indoor public spaces that don’t require proof of vaccination upon entry.
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After New York’s indoor mask mandate was overturned late Monday by a judge on Long Island, the state Attorney General’s Office filed papers on Tuesday saying it would appeal the ruling and seek to have the requirement reinstated.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul holds a sizable lead in this year’s race for governor, according to a new poll from Siena College, and that margin could grow after former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wouldn’t run for the office on Tuesday.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul will propose term limits for statewide elected officials in New York, and seek to ban outside income for those individuals while in office, she said Monday.
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Universal child care has been a lofty ambition for a handful of lawmakers in New York for the past few years, but new legislation introduced Wednesday could be the first step toward realizing that goal.
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A state ethics agency approved a motion Tuesday that’s intended to require former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return any profits he earned from the production and sale of his pandemic-memoir to the New York Attorney General’s Office for further distribution.