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(Airs 04/18/25 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: The Trump administration is blocking an offshore wind project, prison officials say they’ll review the correctional system's culture after 10 employees were indicted over an inmate's death, and a new audit by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says New York should improve its storage of durable medical equipment.
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Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says New York state should improve its storage of durable medical equipment purchased during the COVID-19 pandemic. An audit released Friday also says the state distributed only a small fraction of the equipment at its disposal.
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Robert Snyder, Official Manhattan Borough Historian, is here to discuss his new book, “When the City Stopped: Stories from New York's Essential Workers.”He will be speaking at the University at Albany this afternoon and at the New York State Museum tomorrow afternoon.
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This month marks five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The shutdowns have long since ended, but the impacts on society are still being understood. Beyond the deaths and long-term illness, the pandemic disrupted how we work, learn and even eat. The New York Public News Network is marking the anniversary with a special series. WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief Dave Lucas revisits some of the people who appeared in his earliest COVID stories.
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This month marks five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The shutdowns have long since ended, but the impacts on society are still being understood. People remember business shutdowns, lockdown requirements and seeking solitude in the Adirondacks.
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The cause of long COVID, where patients experience symptoms months after their initial illness, is a mystery. Now, a new study might bring scientists a step closer toward understanding the disease.
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An interview with Berkshire Health Systems spokesperson Michael Leary.
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“Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today,” says a character in “The Vulnerables,” the ninth novel by National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez. “The Vulnerables” offers a meditation on our contemporary era, asking how present reality affects the way a person looks back on their past.
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Albany County's Health Commissioner is leaving her post this month.