Jeongyoon Han
Capitol News Bureau reporterJeongyoon Han is a Capitol News Bureau reporter for the New York Public News Network, producing multimedia stories on issues of statewide interest and importance. Before starting her position in December 2024, she was a reporter and producer for NPR, with a focus on covering the presidential election.
Han is a Syracuse native and graduated from Williams College.
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A newly-enacted state law gave officials the option to give preference to companies selling American-mined salt, and last winter they took it. Not this year. -
New York state Democrats have criticized the federal immigration arrests, but have little authority to stop them. They say they do have the power, however, to ban all law enforcement from wearing face masks and coverings that are used during the detentions. -
The Department of Justice sued New York state in June, claiming its Protect Our Court Act is hampering ICE detention efforts. But in an amicus brief filed Tuesday, 20 district attorneys – Democrat and Republican, from New York to Erie County, and many rural counties in between – argued that the law is critical to their prosecutions. -
Starting next year, the state is requiring most new, small-scale buildings to be fully electric. -
New York is the third-most expensive state for renters, a nationwide analysis shows, requiring a person making minimum wage to work the equivalent of three full-time jobs to afford a two-bedroom unit at fair market rent. -
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After a panel of judges on Monday declined John Sarcone's bid for a permanent appointment, Bondi named Sarcone special attorney to the Attorney General and First Assistant U.S. Attorney – putting him back in charge of the office for the foreseeable future. -
A panel of federal judges declined Monday to permanently appoint interim U.S. Attorney John Sarcone as the chief prosecutor for the Northern District of New York.
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A left-for-dead natural gas pipeline is getting a second chance at life in New York, where state regulators this week accepted what they deemed a completed application for the project, and began a formal review. -
In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision violated “the separation of powers” by temporarily suspending a law that sets limitations to the use of solitary confinement.
