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1/29/23 RT Panel

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The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Partner with the Albany law firm of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna Cianna Freeman-Tolbert, Senior Fellow at the Bard Center for Civic Engagement Jim Ketterer, and political consultant and lobbyist Libby Post. Graduate Student at Rockefeller College studying International Relations Grace Kwaitkowski also participates in today's show.

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