While President Biden has approved major disaster declarations for six New Jersey counties and five New York counties impacted by the remnants Hurricane Ida, the Dutchess County Executive says his county should be included. Marc Molinaro wrote to President Biden, Senators Chuck Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand and Congressmen Sean Patrick Maloney and Antonio Delgado, saying many businesses in central and southern Dutchess County were damaged by flooding. We talk about that and much more.
We catch up with New York U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat running for another six-year term in November.
Pledging to the WAMC October Fund Drive keeps podcasts and programs like this in production.
We feature a special in-depth report on allegations of sexual misconduct and lax oversight at a boarding school in Western Massachusetts.