Federal cuts

(Airs 07/25/25 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: New York schools that were counting on federal money now find themselves in a tough spot, Governor Hochul reminds school districts to submit their plans for the new statewide cellphone ban starting this fall, and state taxpayers will pay nearly half a million dollars to settle claims from an aide to former Governor Andrew Cuomo.

(Airs 07/18/25 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: The top Democrat in the State Senate denounces funding cuts from Congress, the first National Semiconductor Technology Center open its doors in Albany, and local leaders from around the North Country gather to learn more about nuclear energy.

(Airs 07/18/25 @ 3 p.m. & 07/20/25 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and former Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, Barbara Lombardo, Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany and former Editor of the Saratogian, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, Barbara and Ira talk about how the impact of funding cuts to public media, whether objectivity is worth pursuing as a journalistic norm, reporters asking double barreled questions, and much more.

Following proposed federal cuts, the Department of Labor announced a pause to job training centers like Albany County’s Glenmont Job Corps Center. But last week, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction, stopping the U.S. Department of Labor from shutting down Job Corps until a lawsuit against the move is resolved.