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The Roundtable

5/12/26 Panel

By Joe Donahue
Published May 12, 2026 at 9:03 AM EDT
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The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Executive Director of Communities for Local Power and former White House Advance Lead Anna Markowitz, The Empire Report’s JP Miller, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Robert Pondiscio, and Former Mayor of the City of Albany Kathy Sheehan.

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