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(Airs 08/28/25 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Chris Gelardi, Criminal Justice Investigative Reporter for New York Focus, about President Trump’s executive order threatening to withhold funding from states that offer cashless bail, state gang databases and how they’re used by ICE to identify people for deportation, problems with the state prison system, and much more. -
Jesse KingBefore it became a prison for men, Hudson Correctional Facility spent decades as the Women’s House of Refuge and the reformatory New York Training School for Girls. From 1904 to 1975, the training school detained juvenile delinquents, runaways, and girls who were simply deemed “incorrigible” or “ungovernable." A new art exhibit in Staatsburg, New York, continues a project to remember the lives lived and lost at the site, and a little-known cemetery on its campus.
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Siena University students have built a floating wetland as part of a project meant to improve the water quality of Little’s Lake. -
In the most recent fiscal year, New York made more investments in water infrastructure than in any prior year. -
Funeral services were held Wednesday in Cold Spring, New York for Putnam County Sheriff Kevin McConville, who died last week. Friends and colleagues are remembering McConville as a pillar of the law enforcement community who inspired the next generation of officers. -
A local developer plans to build a nine-story, mixed-use office and apartment building on a vacant downtown Albany lot. -
The donation of a cadaver, like those made through Albany Medical College’s Anatomical Gift Program, offers early doctors a personal and emotional connection to their profession, while offering donor families solace from their loved one’s gift. -
As students and teachers prepare to head back to the classroom in New York, a statewide organization representing local districts has released a report on how to address a teacher shortage in New York. -
Across the Northeast, environmentalists and enthusiasts are touting the American pawpaw tree. The fruit-bearing tree has become core to a University at Albany initiative to lower urban temperatures and provide a source of nutritious food to members of the community. -
New York State lawmakers are looking to pass legislation requiring adult content websites to verify users’ age. -
Councilman Joseph Mancini has resigned from his post on the Schenectady City Council. -
New York state Assemblymember Angelo Santabarbara is doubling down on his condemnation of the Public Service Commission’s recent approval of a new rate hike for National Grid customers, calling it unjustified in light of the company’s latest financial reports.
