By Casey Seiler
Betty Flood, a trailblazing Capitol correspondent whose work reached
from Gov. Averill Harriman’s administration to this month, died Tuesday
at Memorial Hospital in Albany. She was 83.
Flood — whose married named was Elizabeth Flood Morrow — operated
Cuyler News Service, an independent operation that worked out of a small
office on the Capitol’s third floor, and focused on providing stories
to the financial media. (It’s located between the two offices occupied
by the Times Union.)
She continued to work well past her 80th birthday, and regularly
wedged her diminutive frame into the tight-packed Capitol Q&As
referred to as “gaggles,” armed with a bulky tape recorder from the
pre-digital age. In April, she was among the reporters in the press pen
at Donald Trump’s rally at the Times Union Center in Albany. She
estimated to this reporter that it was the 13th or 14th presidential
campaign she had covered.
Flood, who had grown increasingly frail in recent months, was taken
to the hospital on Sunday after suffering a fall at her home in
Loudonville. She went into surgery on Monday and never regained
consciousness.
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Source: timesunion.com (via The Empire Report)
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