Headline (NYTimes): Cuomo will seek to lift ban on hyraulic fracturing: "The Cuomo administration is expected to lift what has been, in effect, a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technology used to extract natural gas from shale, people briefed on the administrations discussions said on Thursday."Headline (Politico): Andrew Cuomo hit by liberal backlash: "While the first-term Democrat became an instant national hero of the left and talk began about a potential 2016 presidential campaign, the liberal world is out to remind its voters that, other than on gay marriage, his record veers closer to Chris Christie than typical Democratic standard-bearers."

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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