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.
Lawmakers are returning to the New York state capitol in Albany after approving an overdue state budget. We speak with Democratic Assemblyman D. Billy...
This summer included the hottest July ever recorded on the planet. Wildfires have exploded across Canada. Europe is also experiencing extreme weather. We speak...
Most New Yorkers support using federal land and buildings as temporary shelter for migrants and making it easier for the migrants to be granted...