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Tuesday night, news broke that the former teacher at the heart of a sex abuse scandal at a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, boarding school had been indicted on three counts of rape in Berkshire Superior Court.
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The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Lecturer of Cognitive Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and former Fulbright US Scholar to Egypt Jackie Berry, a former U.S. Army officer and State Department Diplomat who taught at Bard College for six years and is now a Senior Fellow at Bard's Center for Civic Engagement Ambassador Fred Hof, Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany Robert Griffin, and Wall Street Investment Banker Mark Wittman.
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Jimmy Vielkind
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New York Public News Network
Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed $1.5 billion in additional health care funding and nursing homes want at least half of that.
Samuel King
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New York Public News Network
Don Pollard
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Office of Gov. Kathy Hochul
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'We have a responsibility to act': Zellner supports legislation limiting police, state work with ICESen. Jeremy Zellner backs the New York for All Act, a bill limiting local and state cooperation with ICE and restricting how agencies collect immigration status data.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to reshape New York’s insurance laws, much to Uber’s delight. Trial lawyers aren’t happy. -
From intern to leader, Allison Hinman finds purpose in Susan B. Anthony's legacy.
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Equal Justice Initiative
"There is an America that is more free — where there's more equality, where there is more justice, where there is less bigotry — and I think it's waiting for us," says lawyer Bryan Stevenson.
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AFP
Jane Rosenberg
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Reuters
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Iran submitted a counterproposal that includes safeguards against future attacks against Iran and the country's right to "sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz," Iranian state Press TV reported. -
A murky corner of the financial world is now the fastest-growing source of funding for small businesses. One state, Connecticut, had given these lenders unusual power. That may be about to change. -
Therapists say we're overusing the word. Here's what it actually means — and what the Ingrid Bergman film that helped birth the word can teach us about it.
