When the COVID emergency began in March of 2020, local governments had to quickly adapt. Public meetings across the Northeast migrated to Zoom as states made emergency allowances to open meetings laws. Now that public life is reopening, the chair of the 39-memeber Albany County Legislature says some of those changes should remain. Democrat Andrew Joyce and his colleagues wrote to state lawmakers asking them to consider tweaks to the Open Meetings Law.
We speak with Rep. Pat Ryan of New York's 18th district about the Epstein files and the sudden summer break.
A WAMC reporter who covered the prison break in northern New York a decade ago goes into the archives to look at lessons learned...
In the world of public media, we’re accustomed to running down facts and working to dispel the ever encroaching rise of misinformation. But what...