Looking to speak with someone in NY who witnessed a federal immigration arrest for a story I’m working on. [email protected] or Signal: jhan.76

Gov. Hochul said NY intends to create the first major US nuclear plant in 15+ years. She said she’s asking Pres. Trump to expedite the permit process: “So I said to the President, ‘If you want energy dominance, I want energy dominance. This is how we do it.’” www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...

Which bills did NY lawmakers pass, and which ones weren't so lucky? A roundup of some of those bills based on our NY capitol public radio bureau reporting -- from @joncampbellny.bsky.social Jimmy Vielkind and yours truly: www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...

The state Senate passed this bill with a strong majority. It’s still being considered in the Assembly, per source familiar

A bill that would impose a five-year moratorium on the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer could get a vote in the NY Legislature this week. More from @jeongyoonhan.bsky.social: www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...

The battle over natural-gas pipelines -- a remnant of the big fracking battle of the early 2010s -- is back in NY. More from @jeongyoonhan.bsky.social: www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...

SCOOP: NY's parole board is 33% less likely to release a POC than a white person, per NYU’s Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law. Notable line in the report: "Not coincidentally, this three-and-a-quarter-year period coincides with Gov. Hochul’s time in office." www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...

Some incarcerated New Yorkers work for as little as 10 cents an hour, while the average statewide rate is $0.35/hour. State lawmakers say that needs to change. www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...

Great morning read via @jeongyoonhan.bsky.social for WXXINews! Here’s how NY’s new budget addresses cost of living for New Yorkers: www.wrvo.org/2025-05-14/h...

Days ago, NY passed laws that would put safeguards on AI chatbots. But now Republicans in Congress want to put a 10-year moratorium on state AI laws. AOC cited NY's laws in a E&C bill markup Tuesday and said it "would be wiped out" if this happens: www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...

NY lawmakers and criminal justice advocates are using a special legislative hearing tomorrow as a chance to draw attention to violence in the state’s correctional facilities and renew calls for reform. www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...

"State Democratic leaders agreed to close up to three prisons over the next year and put at least $500 million toward the continued deployment of National Guard troops to backfill prison guard shifts." "[L]ower the starting age for a corrections officer from 21 to 18." #NewYork #USA #Incarceration

ICYMI — a thread: 1) This scoop by yours truly: lawmakers in Albany are poised to up the max donation amount that’s eligible for public matching in NY races. Since publishing, the Assembly Speaker did confirm: www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...

Some local leaders say Andrew Cuomo used his power when he was governor to bigfoot them and withhold funding in retaliation for disagreeing with him. Now, he wants to be one of them. I talked with people across the political spectrum for this story: gothamist.com/news/cuomo-h...

A push to expand the state’s independent prison oversight body -- spurred by the killing of Robert Brooks at a prison in Marcy -- appears to have stalled in the Assembly. From @jeongyoonhan.bsky.social: www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has referenced the Rambo movies to describe her strategy to President Donald Trump. But she's not throwing punches all the time. My analysis here, and on the airwaves for NPR's All Things Considered today: www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...

Another reporter asked border czar Tom Homan why Mahmoud Khalil was arrested. He dodged the question so I pressed him on it. He said: “I'm unfamiliar with the exact charge. I can just tell you what my discussions have been with it, is that it’s a direct violation of our foreign policy objectives."

Three weeks in, nearly 60% of NY’s corrections officers are still on strike. 2,000 of them returned to work over the weekend, but 8,000 still stand on the picket line. www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...

The New York state Department of Corrections has begun firing and fining corrections officers who have not returned to work as an unlawful prison strike enters its third week.

New York's "Department of Corrections has begun firing and fining corrections officers who have not returned to work as an unlawful prison strike enters its third week." "Over the course of the strike, four prisoners have died at three separate facilities." @jeongyoonhan.bsky.social @gothamist.com

anora hive let's go

I spoke w/ a mom who wants NY corrections officers to accept the prison strike deal so that her son, who was allegedly attacked by inmates and guards at Bare Hill, can get medical care. But she's torn: He's in solitary confinement. Will the deal keep him in there? www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...

From @stephennessen.bsky.social and myself: A federal judge has struck down NJ's last-ditch effort to block congestion pricing from taking effect in Manhattan on Sunday. NJ's attorney, Randy Mastro, has vowed to appeal. gothamist.com/news/nyc-con...

new headshot new job www.wxxinews.org/2024-12-30/j...

Personal: I’ve left the NPR mothership after an incredible year on the campaign trail to cover state politics for WXXI / NY Public News Network out of Albany. I’m still in the NPR family, and it’ll be exciting to cover NY as a Syracuse native. My first day is Dec. 30! Say hi - DMs/in Albany!

Leave it to DC to have a gaggle for the Jack Schlossberg lookalike contest winner (I couldn’t help but join) 📸Mark Alfred, NOTUS Reports

Trump taps GOP FCC commissioner Brendan Carr to be agency chairman- my story for NPR www.npr.org/2024/11/17/n...

imagine how soggy and cold those Big Macs would’ve been if they brought it all the way on a jet

ok but is anora also your favorite film of the year or no

Matt Gaetz and other Trump nominations. And bear suit insurance fraud schemes. And Dev Patel. All in today’s Friday roundup episode! www.npr.org/2024/11/15/1...

NEWS: Trump announces Leavitt as his pick. She’d be one of youngest press secretaries ever.

If confirmed, RFK Jr’s tenure would signal the next stage of what Trump and him call the “Make America Healthy Again” movement. In reality, it gives a vaccine skeptic the chance to actualize a vision of health and science that’s informed by conspiracy theories. www.npr.org/2024/11/14/n...

lol, my prediction ended up happening

That article in full, here: www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g...

In case you’re wondering, evening breaking news is back

i am others!

Matt Gluck and @hyemin.bsky.social explain the ongoing litigation over the ability to admit statements allegedly obtained through torture in the Guantanamo Bay military commissions in the prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.

“Look, we will never know this, but if Joe Biden last year had said, ‘I will not stand for re-election,’ and let the Democratic Party work its will, would Democrats have had a better chance?” 🎧Today’s NPR Politics Podcast: www.npr.org/2024/11/07/1...

Federal officials have been warning that in recent months, some social media users have been encouraging sabotage of ballot drop boxes. "It's a direct attack on democracy," said one local official.

this summer, we talked to a dozen trump 2016 -> biden 2020 voters who weren't sold on either candidate. obviously, the race has changed since then. have their views? we brought them back together to find out.

NOT my typical elections beat BUT: Tune in Sunday 9:46 am ET to your local NPR member station to hear about how NYC is tackling the rat population… with trash cans! And human behavior! Reported by yours truly featuring the city’s very own ***rat czar***… and a rat🐀🐀🐀

“The fact that you have somebody vying for the second most powerful job available to a politician — as a man — talking about the challenges he faced in building his family? It’s a big deal.” Talked with the American Society for Reproductive Medicine about Tim Walz: www.npr.org/2024/08/27/n...

Nothing is an arm workout quite like holding a mic on a fish pole extended five feet out so you can get Don Jr. and Lara Trump right in the dead center of the convention floor in a gaggle of a couple dozen reporters

Many federal judges receive free rooms and subsidized travel to luxury resorts for legal conferences. NPR found that dozens of judges did not fully disclose the perks they got.

went to an Olivia Rodrigo concert for my 25th birthday and I most certainly raised the average age in the audience

one of my favorite hobbies is to walk or run in neighborhoods with someone else and point out which houses we like

@hyemin.bsky.social provides a dispatch in absentia of Walt Nauta’s potential potential conflicts hearing on Oct. 20 that had been re-scheduled after the Oct. 12 hearing imploded: