Capitol Confidential

The "Senate Coup" of 2009 caught Albany by surprise, but the writing was on the wall months earlier after Senate Democra... Read more

The delivery of health care in New York has been in flux for more than a decade, but the current landscape was largely s... Read more

Progressive activists in New York frustrated by the pace of change during this year's legislative session, would have be... Read more

June 8, 2009 was supposed to be a quiet day in the state Senate. But the plans of the Democratic majority were quickly u... Read more

Cynthia Nixon and two-term incumbent Andrew Cuomo will meet once in a head-to-head primary debate before the Democratic ... Read more

Senate Democrats didn't realize they had defectors in their ranks in 2009 until it was too late. For months leading up t... Read more

Suing the president, investigating police related homicides and leading multi-state actions against the federal governme... Read more

The chaos that occurred on June 8, 2009 – when Senate Republicans, along with two wayward Democrats, attempted to take c... Read more

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon sparred over corruption, their tax disclosures and a handful of progressive issue... Read more

The state Senate has never been more exciting! Control of the narrowly divided 63-seat chamber is up for grabs on Electi... Read more

Election Day is less than two weeks away and the fate of New York's most competitive congressional races is still a bit ... Read more

A constitutionally questionable appointment and some cold feed ended the summer stalemate at the Capitol in 2009. One m... Read more

It took one month in 2009 for order to be restored in the state Senate following an attempted power grab that upset the ... Read more

Twenty years ago, Chuck Schumer was facing an uphill battle to get into the U.S. Senate. Then a New York City congressma... Read more

David Carlucci, an original member of the state Senate's Independent Democratic Conference and one of two to survive the... Read more

Long before the world would meet New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott through the performance by actre... Read more

The state's chief elections enforcement officer either had her wings clipped this week or reasonable oversight authorit... Read more

The state's regulator of public utilities brought the hammer down on your cable company, assuming you haven't cut the co... Read more

In the most meta episode yet, Times Union Editor Rex Smith discusses the evolution of Capitol Confidential from a print ... Read more

At 25-years-old, Jim Skoufis was elected to the state Assembly. With six years of Capitol experience under his belt, he ... Read more