Karen DeWitt
Karen DeWitt is Capitol Bureau Chief for New York State Public Radio, a network of 10 public radio stations in New York State. She has covered state government and politics for the network since 1990.
She is also a regular contributor to the statewide public television program about New York State government, New York Now. She appears on the reporter’s roundtable segment, and interviews newsmakers.
Karen previously worked for WINS Radio, New York, and has written for numerous publications, including Adirondack Life and the Albany newsweekly Metroland.
She 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 for 2009 by the Women’s Press Club of New York State.
Karen is a graduate of the State University of New York at Geneseo.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled a $233 billion state budget plan that holds the line on spending increases and dips into the state’s reserve funds to help pay for the migrant crisis.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul will reveal how she will close a multibillion-dollar budget gap and balance calls from some Democrats in the Legislature for more spending and tax increases.
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Assemblymember Patricia Fahy and Sen. Toby Stavisky say the popular TAP program, aimed at offsetting tuition costs for lower- and middle-income students, has not kept up with inflation and rising tuition costs.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul addressed the sense of unease that New Yorkers feel about the economy and crime in her 2024 State of the State message. Among her proposals were a crackdown on retail theft and a scaled-down plan to build more affordable housing to ease the state’s ongoing crisis.
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The governor is expected to, among other things, focus on easing the state’s affordable housing crisis.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a number of bills in the waning days of 2023, and that has led to some lingering disappointment in 2024.
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Governor Kathy Hochul announced steps for greater consumer protections as part of her 2024 agenda. She says the proposals would protect everyone from students paying off loans, to increasing temporary disability payments, to curbing medical debt.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul, who failed to win approval for a comprehensive housing package in 2023, will make a renewed effort in the new year, with some key controversial elements dropped.
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New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said a follow-up audit to a 2022 report by his office finds the state health department has made some improvements since the height of COVID-19, when thousands of elderly people died in the nursing homes.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed into law a measure to look at potential reparations for New Yorkers whose ancestors suffered under slavery in the state.