Joe Rabito not running for McEneny’s seat
Joe Rabito is not running for Assembly. Several politicos had mentioned that Rabito, Albany’s former commissioner of development and planning and a close political assistant to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, might...
View ArticleMcEneny’s farewell speech
Here’s a video of Assemblyman Jack McEneny, D-Albany, declining the Democratic Party’s nomination for re-election to the seat he has represented since 1992.
View ArticleCandidate announcement roundup
And on Wednesday, a slew of Capital Region politicos held press conference to make publicly official their plans to run for higher office. • Albany County Legislator Bryan Clenahan has announced his...
View ArticleDEC, legislators celebrate chilly Arbor Day
Led by Commissioner Joe Martens, the Department of Environmental Conservation celebrated Arbor Day by planting a tree in West Capitol Park. White spruce seedlings, donated by the Saratoga Tree Nursery,...
View ArticleRegion’s retirees push their last bills
Library card applications for school children. Changing the formula for the Albany School District’s charter school payments. A change in the retirement tier for a Green Island man. The trio of...
View ArticleMcEneny reveals: I nabbed a VIP dog license
One of the soon-to-be-lost pleasures of working in the Capitol is Assemblyman Jack McEneny stopping by the Capitol Bureau on his way to or from gaveling in the Assembly (in order to keep the chamber...
View ArticleVideo: Jack McEneny teaches Gaveling In 101
While the state Assembly’s session ostensibly ended in late June, Albany Democrat Jack McEneny has been the principal legislator keeping it in regular session — giving the chamber the option of...
View ArticleMcEneny’s last gavel
After 20 years and roughly 2,700 trips to the rostrum, Assemblyman Jack McEneny will bang the chamber’s gavel for the last time at noon on Monday, closing the 2012 session and walking out to the keen...
View ArticleMcEneny: ‘Never been a day I haven’t felt privileged’
With some piping and a crooner, Assemblyman Jack McEneny closed the 2012 Assembly session and, with tears in his eyes, walked out of its chamber for the last time as an officeholder. A Pine Hills...
View ArticleLess MMA opposition in Capital Region delegation
I wrote Tuesday about the perennial debate over mixed-martial arts starting again this week when a state Senate committee takes up a bill to legalize and regulate professional bouts. MMA’s supporters...
View ArticleWatch: WMHT’s ‘The O’Connell-Corning Years: The Longest Hurrah’
Local history buffs and fans of top-notch political chronicles should set aside time to watch “The O’Connell-Corning Years: The Longest Hurrah,” a 1987 WMHT production that re-aired on the public...
View ArticleJoe Rabito not running for McEneny’s seat
Joe Rabito is not running for Assembly. Several politicos had mentioned that Rabito, Albany’s former commissioner of development and planning and a close political assistant to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, might...
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