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(Airs 04/11/25 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: the state budget is now on track to be two weeks late, and we’ll find out why. We’ll talk with the executive director of Reinvent Albany about transparency or the lack there of, in budget negotiations, and a trio of Hudson Valley lawmakers ask the state DOT to detail its plan to assess the risk for ship strikes at two Hudson River bridges considered vulnerable.
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Leaders in the Saratoga County tourism industry met today to discuss their 2025 outlook.
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Gordon Huie calls himself the world’s only “triple" survivor from the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks. After surviving the World Trade Center attacks, the orthopedic surgeon and rescue worker began operating on patients at Beekman Hospital. He also lost his sister on 9/11.
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(Airs 04/10/25 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with John Kaehny, Executive Director and a founding board member of Reinvent Albany, about transparency in state government, current budget negotiations, the impact of federal cuts on New York, and much more.
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One person is dead and two New York State Troopers were injured in a shooting in the Saratoga County Town of Malta on Thursday, a day after a suspect was killed outside of a nearby State Police barracks.
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An Albany hospital is celebrating advancements in surgical techniques.
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Two Democrats running for Glens Falls mayor met Wednesday to discuss their approaches to the role and make their cases to voters ahead of June’s primary.
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It has been more than a week since New York state lawmakers missed an April 1st deadline to reach an agreement on this year’s budget. Capital Region lawmakers say negotiations continue behind closed doors.
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WAMC's David Guistina speaks with Ivan Lajara, Senior Editor of The Daily Freeman, about financial strain at Samadhi.
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Samadhi Center, Inc. has closed the Samadhi Refuge, its emergency shelter for individuals struggling with mental illness and substance abuse in Saugerties, New York. Samadhi leaders say they don’t have enough money to keep the shelter open after reimbursements from Ulster County fell through. County officials say they’ve been clear about why.
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New York State troopers have killed a man who fired a hunting rifle at a police barracks in Saratoga County.
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New workforce housing units are going up in Saratoga Springs.