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Advocates, workers, and faith leaders from across New England have gathered today in Boston to rally against the rising number of deportations across the country.

Former New York Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch is denying published reports that he had a transition speech in the ready in anticipation that David Paterson might step down as governor. Ravitch, who served as Lt. Gov. in 2009 and 2010, has has a long career in the public and private sectors including banking, construction, as chair of the New York State Urban Development Corp., and chair of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He has often walked into troubled fiscal situations that few others would envy. Ravitch will speak at Albany Law School April 22 on the fiscal challenges facing local governments. Ravitch will also sign his new book, So Much To Do: A Full Life of Business, Politics And Confronting Fiscal Crises.

Today on Vox Pop, we’re joined by Gordon Fricke – owner and operator of Barber & Fricke Automotive Incorporated, an independent repair, auto body, towing and used car facility in Hoosick, New York, to talk cars and car repair.

The future of hydrofracking in New York State, which has been on hold under a de facto moratorium for almost seven years, may be on shakier ground than ever.

New York’s hydrofracking debate has been under national scrutiny for some time. Those who favor it say fracking will boost rural economies and help communities grow and prosper. Those against sound the alarm that the process will inflict ecological and environmental damage.

Newschannel 13 Meteorologist Paul Caiano delivers the Midday Weather Summary for Thursday, April 17, 2014. 

  Painter Darren Waterston's installation Filthy Lucre is the centerpiece of Uncertain Beauty, his new exhibition at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA (on view through January 2015). It is a contemporary re-imagining of James McNeill Whistler's 1876 decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room.

A soundscape featuring voice and cello composed by the New York-based trio BETTY can be heard intermittently through the space, punctuating the silence with hauntingly beautiful reverberations.

  Tonight at 8pm, Erin McKeown will play at Helsinki Hudson - supporting The Mountain Goats.

Erin is a Musician, Writer, and Producer based in Western Massachusetts.With 9 full length albums, 2 EPs, and numerous soundtracks to her credit, she’s a local, national, and international artist and activist and she joins us to talk about her stint as a host in WNYC, international audiences, teaching, and a few of her songs.

      Shawn Stone, the Arts Editor of Metroland, lets us know what is coming to area stages and screens this week.

    In Living With A Wild God, Barbara Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all.

Ehrenreich is the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed.

    Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Publisher Emeritus of The Daily Freeman, Ira Fusfeld, and Associate Editor of The Times Union, Mike Spain.

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