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 catch up with New York U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat running for another six-year term in November.
We speak with Mass. U.S. Senator Ed Markey, a Democrat.
The 2024 presidential campaign got a jolt when former President Donald Trump appeared in a Florida court to face dozens of counts related to...