(Airs 01/30/26 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: A New York Congressman calls for ICE to be abolished, advocates are hoping that recent policy changes will make a difference in the state’s child poverty rate, and we’ll talk with the state Inspector General about the agency’s 40th birthday.

A Schenectady judge says he will reach a decision as soon as Monday morning on whether he will lift a temporary restraining order barring a City Council appointee from serving on the board.

As tensions continue to rise over the presence of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in communities across the country, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul took her strongest stance yet.

Congressman Paul Tonko wants ICE abolished. It comes as a negative sentiment toward the federal immigration crackdown is growing.

In January 2025 the Newburgh-Beacon Ferry stopped running when winter ice damaged the Beacon dock. Riders react a year later, and some prefer the free shuttle bus.

Business leaders across the nation on Friday will shut their doors in protest of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. WAMC’s Samantha Simmons spoke with leaders at area businesses about their decision to participate.

(Airs 01/29/26 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang, and a special guest, about the 40th birthday of the office, as well as the history of the role in American history.

Amid steep cuts in federal funding through the National Institutes of Health, medical research institutions are left seeking ways to protect staff and clinical trials as they work toward scientific breakthroughs.

Last July, the Troy Public Library’s main branch was only open six days. As WAMC’s Sam Simmons reports, a newly finished HVAC project should help the library turn the page on that disruption.

Capital Region lawmakers are among the more than 500 state legislators across the country to release a joint statement decrying the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents. The statement in response to the Minnesota killings comes as the magnitude of the Immigration Customs and Enforcement operations in the Capital Region is unknown.