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An Albany County legislator has introduced a legislative package he says will address transparency and financial concerns surrounding the housing of migrants.

Picture this. The Mohawk Valley a few weeks ago. The bad air from forest fires in Canada had returned. It was hot and muggy. Weather forecasters said stay in the house. I was vexed, I was in a mood I couldn’t break. I tried to end my sulky state by viewing the recent star-studded comedies for the post-menopausal generation… 80 for Brady and Ticket to Paradise.

If you think the social pressures in high school are brutal, they're nothing compared to the jockeying that goes on among the high-powered preschool parents in Caitlin Macy's withering new novel Mrs.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is refusing to resign Monday after a special commission harshly criticized his leadership during last July's war in Lebanon. The two Israeli soldiers whose kidnapping sparked the war in Lebanon are still not free.

Singer and actress Eartha Kitt has died of colon cancer. She was 81. Kitt, who was ostracized as a child in South Carolina because of her mixed-race heritage, got her start in show business as a dancer and vocalist, and earned early international notice as a featured singer in a Paris nightclub.

The company hired by New York City to coordinate services and the relocation of migrants upstate is being investigated by state Attorney General Tish James.

Migrants from New York City have begun arriving in Albany County, but local officials have differing approaches to the asylum seekers.

Two resolutions before the city council Monday evening were energy related. One would implement a carbon pollution impact fee and regulate types of energy systems that can be used in new buildings. A second resolution would allow the Burlington Electric Department to provide steam power to a district energy system from the city’s McNeil generating plant.

In a Pennsylvania district, school board elections have turned from debates about teacher salaries to issues like gender identity policies.

Republican Sen. Tuberville of Alabama has been blocking nearly all military nominations this year in protest of a Pentagon abortion policy. His fellow senators are getting creative with solutions.