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.
The mayor of Hoosick Falls who led the village through a tumultuous period leaves office as a much-needed clean water supply comes online.
On this episode, we interview Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan about the coronavirus, social distancing and the pandemic’s economic impacts.
“It’s often felt like a choice between denying my deepest instincts about truth and morality to preserve that community, or being honest with myself...