ReformNY
The ReformNY blog is written by Lawrence (Larry) Norden, Laura Seago, and Eric Lane from the Brennan Center for Justice. You can also read, and subscribe, to the ReformNY blog here.
Blog Posts
- Money and Politics This Week (02/10/12)
- Money and Politics This Week (02/03/12)
- Money and Politics This Week (12/09/11)
- Money and Politics This Week (12/02/11)
- Money and Politics This Week (11/18/11)
- Better Ballots for New York (09/22/11)
- Missed Opportunity for Reform (07/05/11)
- Major Campaign Finance Reform Step Today (06/15/11)
- Ethics Panel Issues First Finding Against a Sitting Legislator (06/01/11)
- Brennan Center Urges Floor Vote on Ethics Reforms (05/16/11)
- Showing 10 most recent blog posts, show all
- Senators Push for Hearing on Ethics (04/14/11)
- In Support of Voter-Owned Elections (04/11/11)
- Senate Rules Committee Continues to Undermine Reform (03/29/11)
- Charges in Kruger-Boyland Scandal Are Awfully Familiar (03/10/11)
- Hard of Hearing? (03/09/11)
- Online Sample Ballots for NYC in Time for Next Election (03/07/11)
- Executives, Clergy, and Former Politicians Agree on Voter Owned Elections (02/28/11)
- Was New York Ready for Paper Ballots? (02/22/11)
- Groups to City Board: Do not discontinue postage-paid voter registration forms (02/09/11)
- Another Call for a Unified Ethics Commission and Client Disclosure (02/07/11)
- Senate Misses First Key Opportunity for Reforms (01/26/11)
- Over 50 Groups Call On NY Legislature to Take Action on Public Financing (01/24/11)
- On Citizens United Anniversary, Fight for Campaign Finance Reform Continues (01/21/11)
- Bipartisan Support for Key Reforms in Albany, New Siena Poll Shows (01/18/11)
- First test for reform in the “New Albany” (01/12/11)
- City Board of Elections to Post Sample Ballots Online (11/30/10)
- Testimony of Lawrence Norden before the New York State Senate Standing Committee on Elections (10/01/10)
- More Voices for a Better Overvote Procedure in New York (07/08/10)
- Setting the Record Straight on New York Uprising (05/11/10)
- Making it Harder for the Next Joe Bruno (05/07/10)
- Skelos’ Links to Lobbyists—and Other Matters Worth Discussing with Legislative Leaders (05/04/10)
- Albany On the Record Event (04/22/10)
- Brennan Center Notifies DOJ that New York Voting Changes Were Not Precleared (04/20/10)
- Albany Lawmakers Propose Shareholder Rights as Citizens United Response (04/19/10)
- A Better Budget for New York State? (04/07/10)
- New York’s Member Item Distribution Still “Grotesquely Unfair” (03/22/10)
- Correction: A Different Reading of Senate Rule VII § 3(e) (03/15/10)
- New Senate Rules in Action (03/10/10)
- Farmworker Bill frustration = opportunity to realize reform (03/03/10)
- State Police Redux, Redux (03/02/10)
- With the Governor’s Role in Dispute, It’s Time to Look Critically at ‘3 Men in a Room’ (03/02/10)
- Rebooting NY (02/25/10)
- Capitol Beat Blog (02/23/10)
- Questions Raised about NYC’s Voting Machine Selection Process (02/20/10)
- Concerns About New York’s Voting Machines: An Update (02/18/10)
- The Monserrate Legal Battle: A Brief Primer (02/12/10)
- NY Ethics: A Closer Look at Exemptions to Disclosure Requirements (02/09/10)
- Two New Ethics Proposals for New York (02/08/10)
- Time To Give Disclosure A More Serious Look (02/05/10)
- We’re All Concerned About New York’s New Voting Machines Now (02/04/10)
- The NY State Ethics Bill: What Now? (02/03/10)
- NY Ethics Bill…Awaiting a Veto? (01/29/10)
- Fixing Mistakes in the NY State Ethics Bill (01/27/10)
- A Teaching Moment: The Pitfalls of Passing Legislation Without Public Input (01/26/10)
- Impact of Citizens United on NY State’s Campaign Finance System? Not So Much (01/26/10)
- Building a Better Ethics Bill (01/25/10)
- On the Passage of the New York’s Ethics Bill (01/20/10)
- Will the NY Senate Republicans Vote for a Hearing? (01/18/10)
- Times’ Spot-on Analysis of Ethics Bill Points to Need for Additional Discussion (01/18/10)
- Reform is More than Words on a Page (01/15/10)
- NY Ethics Reform Bill’s Financial Disclosure Changes are Half-Measures (01/14/10)
- Diaz is Right (01/13/10)
- Gillers: Protests of Lawyer/Client Privilege ‘Laughable’ (01/11/10)
- N.Y. pols must all come clean—more disclosure, please! (12/23/09)
- About Those Committee Reforms (12/21/09)
- NY’s lulus divided between Republicans and Democrats (12/15/09)
- ReformNY: 3 men in a cell (12/10/09)
- Ethics in NY: Closing the Bruno Gap (12/08/09)
- NY’s Same-Sex Marriage Bill: Victory in Defeat? (12/02/09)
- Is the Citizen Legislature to Blame? Maybe for Boredom. (11/20/09)
- Senators, Advocates, Lobbyists: New Rules Mean New Opportunities in 2010 (11/13/09)
- How To Fix Committees (11/12/09)
- Closed- and Open-Door Meetings in the Assembly (11/09/09)
- “Greater transparency” without information is not greater transparency (11/06/09)
- A Blueprint for Fixing Albany (10/19/09)
- What to do about Monserrate? (10/16/09)
- Lt. Gov. Ruling a Victory for Paterson (09/22/09)
- Voters Get It and the Times Confirms It: New York Has a Long Way to Go (08/20/09)
- Reconciling Differences on Mayoral Control (08/04/09)
- Keeping New York from Becoming the Next New Jersey (07/28/09)
- This Time, Let the Court Decide (07/23/09)
- Measuring the New Senate Rules Against the Assembly (07/21/09)
- One Big Step Forward for the Senate, One Big Step Left to Go (07/16/09)
- Three Reforms for the Post-Coup Senate (07/14/09)
- A Way Out of the Senate Logjam NOW (07/01/09)
- Some Thoughts on the Legal Claims Being Thrown around the Capitol (06/26/09)
- What About the Assembly? (06/24/09)