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5/18/22 RT Panel

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The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond.

Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, investigative journalist and UAlbany adjunct professor Rosemary Armao, Cohoes City Director of Operations Theresa Bourgeois, and Lecturer and Adjunct Professor in Communications for SUNY New Paltz and RPI Terry Gipson.

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