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 preview Town Meeting Day in Vermont Tuesday with Middlebury College political science professor Bert Johnson, who hopes the old-fashioned tradition will continue.
To mark Thanksgiving, we celebrate Alice Brock of "Alice's Restaurant" fame, who died this month at age 83.
More than 7,000 American Peace Corps volunteers were evacuated amid the coronavirus pandemic. WAMC’s Ian Pickus interviews one: his brother, Neil Pickus.