tariffs

On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced he had authorized imposing a 100 percent tariff on all foreign films. Filmmakers and local film commissions in New York say it’s a bad idea — and infeasible.

Canadians went to the polls Monday. In Northern New York, expectations of strained relations and a continued trade war remain.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer came to a restaurant in Albany Monday morning to call attention to the local impacts of President Trump’s trade policies.

Town of Plattsburgh officials and members of the local American Legion provided an update today on progress to create a memorial park to honor veterans.

In my oral radio commentary for Friday, April 18, I decided NOT to make any comments on the craziness of Trump’s on again off again tariff war with the rest of the world.

(Airs 04/11/25 & 04/13/25 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette, Barbara Lombardo, Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany and former Editor of the Saratogian, Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld and Daily Gazette Editor Miles Reed. On this week’s Media Project, Judy, Barbara, Ira and Miles talk about coverage of the President’s tariff announcement, how local media covered the hands-off protests, and much more.

North Country interests are carefully watching Canada's political duel and the implications for cross border trade.

The Town of Plattsburgh Supervisor is slamming new tariffs on Canadian goods to be announced Wednesday by the Trump administration.

Everyone who had the misfortune to see Trump’s various speeches on inauguration day got to see him explain that the word “tariff’ was the most beautiful word in the dictionary, only to catch himself and say, well, actually “God, religion and love” need to come first. – THEN would come tariff.

Vermont Senator Peter Welch will hold a roundtable on U.S. and Canadian tariffs in a border community on Tuesday.