disability services

(Airs 07/11/25 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: The federal tax and spending bill signed last week by President Trump will blow a $3 billion hole in the state budget, disabled advocates say what worries them most about coming cuts to Medicaid is what they don’t know yet, and rural hospitals in New York are brace for the impact of cuts from the so-called Big, Beautiful Bill.

A Capital Region grocery chain is launching a partnership to hire more people with disabilities.

Longtime area journalist Jim Odato joins us about his new book, "This Brain Had a Mouth, Lucy Gwin and the Voice of Disability Nation," about author, advocacy journalist, disability rights activist, feminist, and founder of Mouth magazine, Lucy Gwin.

With New York state facing a roughly $15 billion budget deficit and the outlook for federal relief unclear, a number of sectors that rely on state money…