The Capitol Pressroom for March 2, 2012
NOTE – If you know any dapper elves baking new maps in a hollow cartoon tree please remind them that the maps are due today. Thank you.
Ken Lovett of the New York Daily News updates us on the latest redistricting news. And over which issue George Takei is threatening to debate Donald Trump.
Former AG Bob Abrams says he has the answer to the redistricting question.
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act or RLUIPA has combined two topics, prisoners and zoning and it’s creating a burden on municipalities in the lower Hudson Valley. Patty Salkin, the Dean of the Government Law Center at Albany Law School and a land use expert joins us to explain. Plus we will speak with a documentary filmmaker Anne MacGregor who has produced a film “America’s Holy War” about the issue.
And the town of Vestal is definitely *not* all pro-gas drilling. Sue Rapp will explain.
Your guest said “People choose to attend a Catholic school, or work for a Catholic organization; they don’t have to work there.” I would point out, sometimes, there isn’t much of a choice simply because, sometimes, that’s the ONLY job out there for them.