New York’s largest teachers’ union has elected a new president. Melinda Person was picked by delegates to lead the New York State United Teachers. Person has served as NYSUT’s executive director and political director since 2019.
On this episode: a new cleanup plan for the PCB-polluted Housatonic River.
State and local health officials have had a bruising couple of years in New York, where COVID-19, monkeypox and poliovirus have all demanded acute...
Vermont U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy will retire at the end of his eighth term. WAMC’s North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley was at the...