The holiday season is always a busy one in the Saratoga Springs area, but this year there are new concerns about the downtown bar scene following a shootout around 3 a.m. on a recent Sunday. In the meantime, a new business is sprouting up in New York, after the first retail marijuana licenses were issued. We speak with Todd Shimkus, president of the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce.
We talk Mass. politics and beyond with Western New England University political science professor Tim Vercellotti.
We meet Steve Kerrigan, the new head of the Massachusetts Democratic Party — which holds every important office in the state.
In recent days, WAMC’s Josh Landes been touring Western Massachusetts to cover several annual town meetings, as residents of Berkshire County headed to parking...