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Welcome to the Capitol Pressroom’s special Pre-fixe menu for our State of the State Pre-Game show. 

Everything will be cooked to order.  

Appetizer: 

We shall begin our State of the State coverage with a rich melt-in-your-mouth delicacy – Toro tuna belly for the mind (an amuse bouche for the brain).  It is a generous dollop of fresh & thoughtful analysis on which to sustain the rest of the menu.  It’s courtesy of Pulitzer Prize winning NYTIMES Albany Bureau Chief Danny Hakim. 

Soup:             

We follow up the buttery Toro with a fragrant chicken stock & squash puree made surprisingly zesty by the addition of  both lemongrass & sassy observations made by blogger Jimmy Vielkind of the New York Observer.

Intermezzo:

Catch of the Day

Entree:          

Our piece de resistance is a surf & turf special featuring SUNY Cortland Professor of Political Science Robert Spitzer, and former Assemblyman & candidate for Governor, John Faso. 

Please submit your reviews for our review:  

 susan@thecapitolpressroom.org  

I am the chef here. 

I also do the dishes.

The Capitol Pressroom provides Take-out at the following locations:

Binghamton – 11am – noon on WSKG/WSQX

Albany – 12:00 — 1:00pm on WROW NewsTalk 590

Buffalo – 1pm – 2pm on WBFO

Oswego – 3pm – 4pm on WRVO-2

Syracuse – 11am – noon on WCNY & 8pm – 9pm on WRVO main channel

Wasn’t it just 1998? Weren’t we just discussing the definition of “is”?

I asked the TU’s Casey Seiler, Cuyler News Service’s Betty Flood and the NY Daily News’ Ken Lovett which stories would make their lists of the Top 10 NYS Stories of the Decade. You would think that with three lists, there would be some overlap, right? Surprisingly, there was very little duplication. Here are their lists: (What would you include on yours?)

Casey —

Fall of Joe Bruno

Evolution of Sheldon Silver

The “Bluing’ of New York State

The “Shrinking” of Rudy Giuliani

The Coup

Betty —

Richard Ravitch wins the LG court fight

The Coup

Stock Plunge

The 4 Amigos

Marty Markowitz buys a house in Brooklyn

Gay Marriage vote

Kenny –

9/11

Spitzer’s resignation &  how the ”promise” of reform devolved into hookers and scandal

Fiscal Crisis

Hevesi & Bruno conviction and the deteriorating ethical climate in Albany.

Pension Fund scandal

1st Lady becomes US Senator

The Coup

Senate flips to Democrats

New York’s first Black & blind Governor (also first Black Majority Leader/Senate President & Hispanic Majority leader)

Hillary & Rudy run for President

US Senate Appointment (first time since 1965 that a NY Governor has gotten to chose)

Paterson’s fall, and Schumer & Silver’s rise

Best line of the day:

”He negotiated with terrorists”.

  – Ken Lovett, referring to Malcolm Smith, in response to a question about why the State Senate this year de-evolved into chaos.

Coming up on Wednesday’s edition of The Capitol Pressroom:

Mike Gormley of the Associated Press and Jimmy Vielkind of the NY Observer join me with the political headlines. Kelly Cheezum of Clarkson University discusses the challenges of bringing broadband to the Adirondack Park. And Mitch Abolafia, an expert on the Federal Reserve, will be here to discuss how the Fed’s response to the financial crisis affected both New York State and New York City — and how we may be feeling the effects of the response in 2010.

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