Good afternoon — It’s Wednesday and Kevin Bacon’s birthday.
Howdy! It’s Tim again, filling in for Dan.
Starting off, we’ve got an interesting lawsuit filed against the State University of New York, which alleges that it illegally expanded its authority to remove or disqualify interim community college leaders.
Gov. Kathy Hochul issued her first executive order since April, and she’s taking aim at obsolete statutes, reports and boards.
My colleague Alexander MacDougall has insight into a federal judge’s denial of Kalshi’s request for a preliminary injunction against the New York State Gaming Commission.
Finally, if you’ve been around the Capitol a while, you might remember the decades-long effort to strip a requirement that SNAP recipients get fingerprinted. It’s finally passed both chambers and awaits Hochul’s signature.
Names in today’s CapCon: Maria Conzatti, John B. King, Kathy Hochul, Elon Musk, Donald J. Trump, Andrew M. Cuomo, Letitia James, Analisa Torres, Eliot Spitzer
The SUNY Administration Building located in downtown Albany (Will Waldron/Times Union)
🏫 Who controls interim community college leaders?
A legal battle over who controls leadership at New York’s community colleges landed in state Supreme Court in Albany on Wednesday.
The Nassau Community College Board of Trustees sued the State University of New York this week, alleging it illegally expanded its authority through regulations adopted earlier this year that allow it to remove or disqualify interim community college presidents or administrators.
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