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641. Legislative Gazette Show 8735

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Audio
Date Created:
1987 September 3
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
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1) Ed Koch, New York City Mayor, discusses his new plan to forcibly put mentally ill homeless people in to state mental health centers. Governor Cuomo adopts a wait and see stance about the plans effectiveness. 2) Brenda McMann reports on the failure of many big rigs to pass random safety tests. 3) Alan Chartock and Daniel Walsh, head of public policy for the New York State Business Council, talk about the future plans and changes taking place in the Council. 4) Brenda McMann reports on smuggling of cigarettes. Federal Native American reservations do not have to apply sales taxes and are relying on cigarettes and diesel sales for revenue. 5) Alan Chartock and Fred Dicker, of New York Post, discuss Mayor Koch's and Governor Cuomo's stance on the mentally ill homeless and the failure of the current system
Subject:
Tax evasion, Automobiles--Inspection, and Mentally ill homeless persons

642. Legislative Gazette Show 8734

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1987 August 27
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
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1) Alan Chartock talks with Senator Tarky Lombardi, chair of the senate Health Committee, about the need for a case payment bill for hospital reimbursements. 2) Brenda McMann reports on a study by the environmental group, Inform, about pollution in the Hudson River from PCB and rain water runoff from farms and cites. The Hudson River was named an estuary under a federal clean water act. 3) Karl Felsen, spokesman for the New York State Tax Department, talks about yacht owners evading sales taxes and the tax inspectors efforts to find them. 4) Morrie Small reports on the end of the garbage barge's search for a dumping site. 5) Alan Chartock and Fred Dicker, of the New York Post, discuss Governor Cuomo's upcoming trip to the Soviet Union, Cuomo's interest in presidential and national politics, and his lack of foreign policy experience.
Subject:
Cuomo, Mario Matthew, Tax evasion, and Water--Pollution

643. Legislative Gazette Show 8733

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1987 August 21
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
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1) Alan Chartock talks with Maurice Hinchey, Chair of the Solid Waste Commission, about organized crime's involvement in the solid waste industry and attending environmental dangers. 2) Brenda McMann reports prisons are overcrowded and local jails are holding prison inmates. Thomas Coughlin, Corrections Commissioner, comments on the problem and possible alternatives. 3) Alan Chartock talks with Assembly Minority Leader Clarence Rappleyea about corruption in the public works projects and the need to set statewide standards. 4) Brenda McMann reports on the State University of New York, Board of Trustees's decision to increase salaries in top positions in an effort to attract a new chancellor. 5) Alan Chartock and Fred Dicker, of the New York Post, talk about Mario Cuomo's political aspirations.
Subject:
Cuomo, Mario Matthew, Organized crime, and Prisons

644. Legislative Gazette Show 8732

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1987 August 14
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
a62b8f3f0380f1ab8c3943903e2ce8ce
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1) Leslie Brokaw reports U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani, and the FBI brought charges against fifty-eight people in for accepting bribes, kickbacks and no shift transactions. Thomas Sheer, an assistant FBI director, recounts the undercover operation. 2) Leslie Brokaw reports on the debate over changes in the way hospitals are reimbursed by insurance companies. Assembly Majority Leader James Talon gives his thoughts on why the bill was vetoed. 3) Leslie Brokaw talks with Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein about the new law which will ban the sale of candies and soft drinks in schools till after lunch. 4) Morrie Small and Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine talk about the veto process, the new official state muffin and the bribery charges brought by Rudy Giuliani. 5) Alan Chartock and Senator John Dunn, Deputy Majority Leader, talk about where surrogate parenting legislation now stands and the recent charges of political corruption.
Subject:
Surrogate motherhood, Political corruption, and Insurance

645. Legislative Gazette Show 8731

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1987 August 5
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
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1) Alan Chartock and Joe Bellacosa, State Court of Appeals Judge, talk about the state's mandatory retirement age and the new federal statute which provides appointed positions age discrimination protection. 2) Dave Galletly reports on a proposal to aid random testing anonymous blood specimens for AIDS. 3) Alan Chartock talks with Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine about labor management. 4) Morrie Small reports on the concern raised by communities about the proposed Iroquois Gas Pipeline. Charles Shaw, Environmental Management Council in Duchess County, said the company has not considered the environmental impact. Iroquois Gas spokesman justifies the route and asserts environmental studies have been conducted. 5) Brenda McMann talks with Senator David Patterson about Senator Jenkins, who was arrested by the FBI for an alleged scheme to to take a large amount of money out of the country.
Subject:
Natural gas pipeline, Age discrimination, and AIDS (Disease)

646. Legislative Gazette Show 8730

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1987 July 31
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
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1) Fred Dicker, of New York Post, reports that a witness in a trial testified about a dummy corporation with a senator on the payroll and the indictments to occur due to democrats hiring a full time employee to work campaigns. 2) Leslie Brokaw talks with Bill Fagel, spokesman for the Health Department, about Salmonella outbreaks in the Northeast and the need to throughly cook chicken and eggs. 3) Alan Chartock interviews Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine about Senator Moynihan's welfare reform agenda. 4) Leslie Brokaw reports on home release electronic trackers for parolees. 5) Interview with Martin Sullivan, Director of the New York State Museum, about the new International Council of Museums ethic guidelines and changes to be effected in New York.
Subject:
Museums, Salmonella, and Prisons

647. Legislative Gazette Show 8727

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1987 July 10
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
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1) Leslie Brokaw talks with Jonathan Salant, of the Syracuse Herald Journal, about new legislation for prisons, the recent ruling to more narrowly interpret the Shield Law and the Apple Muffin Bill. 2) Alan Chartock talks with Martha Orr and Ellen Burns, director and president of the New York State Nurses' Association, about the Entry into Practices Bill which would require a bachelor degree for nurses. 3) Leslie Brokaw talks with Judge Albert Rosenblatt, Chief Administrative Judge, about hearings to explore handling procedures for defendants with AIDS. 4) Leslie Brokaw talks with Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine, about changes in the regulations for dealers in milk.
Subject:
Milk, AIDS (Disease), and Nursing

648. Legislative Gazette Show 8726

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1987 July 3
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
a62b8f3f0380f1ab8c3943903e2ce8ce
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1) Alan Chartock talks with Fred Dicker, of the New York Post, about the loop holes in the new bill for conflict of interest in financial disclosure for all elected officials and many state employees. Assemblyman John Faso comments on his points of contention with the bill. 2) Interview with Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine about the loophole in the bill and its significant achievements. 3) Rick Schrader, director of Alliance for Consumer Rights, advocates passing a bill to increase auto insurance coverage requirement. 4) Leslie Brokaw interviews Senator Joseph Bruno, Chair Senate Insurance Committee, who believes the cost of insurance is already to high and if the bill passes premiums will increase. 5) Leslie Brokaw reports on a debate over regulating public broadcasting.
Subject:
Automobile insurance, Political ethics, and Conflict of interests

649. Legislative Gazette Show 8725

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1987 June 26
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
a62b8f3f0380f1ab8c3943903e2ce8ce
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1) Morrie Small and Alan Chartock report that Governor Cuomo is applying pressure to pass an ethics bill. Alexander Levine, a Cuomo associate, has been charged with a conflict of interest. 2) Assembly Speaker Mel Miller, discusses whether the legislature will give itself a pay raise after a ethics bill passes. 3) Morrie Small reports Mel Miller and Democratic Majority Leader James Talon support a bill to make medicare available to more New Yorkers without insurance. 4) Leslie Brokaw talks with Major General Lawrence Flynn of the New York Army National Guard about testing and evaluation, and how the organization has fared since Major General Vito Castellano retired. 5) Alan Chartock talks with Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine about negotiations on overcrowding in prisons, building new facilities and the bill.
Subject:
Political ethics, National Guard, and Medicare

650. Legislative Gazette Show 8724

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1987 June 19
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
a62b8f3f0380f1ab8c3943903e2ce8ce
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1) Alan Chartock talks with Assembly Speaker Mel Miller about equitable revenue sharing and gay foster parenting. 2) Senator Walter Floss, Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, about what the state would have to do if the Superconducting SuperCollider physic research project is located in New York. 3) Alan Chartock talks with Senator John Perry about why democrats have not gain any more seats in the senate in the last five years in a senate ruled by republican majority. 4) Fred Dicker of New York Post, comments that Democrats in the State Senate represent nothing but a poorly led group of New York City attorneys. 5) Morrie Small reports on three bills to regulate surrogate parenting.
Subject:
Surrogate motherhood, Foster parents, Revenue sharing, and Superconducting Super Collider