Jon Campbell
WNYC and The GothamistJon Campbell covers the New York State Capitol for WNYC and Gothamist. Prior to that, he covered the Capitol for more than a decade for the USA TODAY Network. He has twice earned the Walter T. Brown Memorial Award, an honor given annually by the Legislative Correspondents Association alumni for outstanding state government coverage. Jon grew up in the Buffalo area and graduated from the University at Albany.
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Adultery is a crime in New York State. For more than 100 years it's been a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 90 days in jail. Legislation to overturn that now sits on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk.
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For the first time since 1898, a new face is being added to the grand staircase in the N.Y. Capitol in Albany — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late U.S. Supreme Court justice born and raised in Brooklyn.
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Authorities searched a senior federal judge’s home as part of a Manhattan criminal investigation that led to felony charges earlier this month against his 49-year-old son, who is accused of surreptitiously recording women engaged in sexual acts in his Upper East Side residence. -
The state Department of Taxation and Finance confirmed to Gothamist on Monday that it will not count the forgiven loans as income, meaning they won’t be subject to the state’s income tax — which could have left borrowers with a bill of several hundred dollars, depending on how much money they currently make. -
Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul will face Lee Zeldin, a Republican congressman, in the New York race for governor. The state has more than twice as many registered Democrats than Republicans. -
There was little consensus among the three Democratic gubernatorial candidates during the first 54 minutes of Tuesday’s tense, hour-long New York primary debate. Then the moderator asked if they believed in ghosts. -
Nearly three weeks after the mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo and 10 days after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, New York state lawmakers passed a sweeping gun control package.
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New York policymakers are facing pressure to roll back the changes they made to the state's cash bail system three years ago. Ayesha Rascoe talks with Jon Campbell of WNYC about it.
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New York lawmakers appear willing to roll the dice on full-fledged casinos in the New York City area. But they're pushing to make sure that local officials have a say in where they're located.
