By Hunter Walker 2/17/12 7:55pm

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‘Good Shabbos Indeed:’ The E-Mail That Inspired Scott Noren To ‘Occupy Liz Benjamin’

For the past few weeks, longshot “Occupy” Senate candidate Scott Noren has been at war with the state politics blog and TV show Capital Tonight with angry ads on Albany politics sites and supposedly plans to fly a plane over the capitol. Today, Mr. Noren published a series of emails he claims inspired the feud. Mr. Noren became enraged with Capital Tonight host Liz Benjamin, one of the pre-eminent reporters on the Albany beat, after receiving what he described as a “less than professional” response from her following “several attempts to get media coverage on Capital Tonight.”

“You have come across as the most arrogant local newscaster I have ever encountered,” Mr. Noren wrote in the missive he released today. Read More

By Jimmy Vielkind 7:23pm

Industry News: LCA Shuffle Edition

ALBANY—The LCA Press Room on the Capitol's third floor is filled now with movers and telecomm technicians as some of the news organizations here shuffle around.

The Daily News is moving out of the small, open-topped cube in the center of the press room that it has occupied since (best as anyone can remember) the Read More

By Staff 1/30/07 5:15pm

Dispatch From the Inner Sanctum

A legislative aide briefed on today’s meeting of Assembly Democrats said that the “consensus is not to do one of the three” comptroller candidates recommended by the Eliot Spitzer-backed independent screening panel. What the conference should do instead remains unclear, the aide said.

Liz Benjamin, whose turf I’m gingerly tiptoeing on right now, has Read More

By Staff 1/25/07 1:01pm

Just a Suggestion

Now that the independent screening panel is winnowing down the list of comptroller candidates, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is signaling just how important that recommendation really is.

From the Buffalo News:

“They can give me whatever they want,” Silver said of the three-member panel. “We don’t have to listen to them, either.”

Asked if Read More