Robert Smullen

Earlier this month, a 25-year-old from Colonie died when a truck hit his motorcycle at a notoriously deadly intersection in Niskayuna. On Monday, a New York state assemblyman whose son died last year after being hit on the same Route 7 corridor, joined community members to demand that New York State take action.

As the session nears its end, Republican state lawmakers and advocates for New York municipalities rallied at the capitol Wednesday to support rural communities.

WAMC's David Guistina speaks with Miles Reed, Managing Editor of The Daily Gazette, about Tuesday's arrests in the NXIVM case. They also discuss the…