Karen DeWitt
Albany ReporterKaren DeWitt is Capitol Bureau Chief for New York State Public Radio, a network of 10 public radio stations in New York State. WBFO listeners are accustomed to hearing DeWitt’s insightful coverage throughout the day, including expanded reports on Morning Edition.
DeWitt is a past recipient of the prestigious Walter T. Brown Memorial award for excellence in journalism, from the Legislative Correspondents Association, and was named Media Person of the Year by the Women’s Press Club of New York State.
DeWitt has served as a panelist for numerous political debates, including the 2014 gubernatorial debate sponsored by WNED|WBFO
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Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday that gun safety laws passed after the Buffalo mass shooting that killed 10 people are reporting some success.
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With a little less than three months until Election Day in New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul is comfortably ahead of her challenger, Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin.
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It’s been a week since GOP gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin thwarted a potential attacker while at a campaign event near Rochester.
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The troubled state Joint Commission on Public Ethics went out of businesses earlier this month, after Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state legislature agreed to replace it with a new ethics panel. But progress on creating the new commission has been slow, leaving the state without any ethics panel at all.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday that the state will spend $70 million for improving child care services as part of a plan that ends the state sales tax on baby diapers.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that the state is prepping for a possible new surge of COVID-19 this fall, but she said no rules like indoor masking are anticipated right now.
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The race for governor is getting the most attention in the June 28 primary for statewide elected offices, but on the Democratic side, there’s also a contest for who will be the state’s next lieutenant governor.
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A new poll shows strong support for recent actions by Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature to strengthen the state’s gun laws and provide additional protections for people seeking abortions.
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Governor Kathy Hochul on Monday signed six bills into law that protect abortion rights and support reproductive health care providers in New York. The measures are in response to an anticipated decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that would overturn the 1973 abortion rights decision, Roe v. Wade.
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It’s less than three weeks until New York state’s primary for governor and, so far, it seems the contest is Gov. Kathy Hochul’s to lose. While she’s ahead of her two challengers, Hochul does have some potential vulnerabilities.