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• NY lawmakers, Cuomo administration respond to report on COVID nursing home deaths January 29, 2021A report by New York’s’ Attorney General finds that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration may have undercounted by as much as 50% the number of the state’s nursing home resident who died at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York last spring. The news has led the Republican leader of the State Senate to […]
• US-Canada border re-opening a long way off, changes may linger says border expert January 29, 2021

Historical Features

• Books: "The Power Line" January 25, 2021(Jan 25, 2021) In the 1920's, during Prohibition, bootleggers smuggled alcohol from Canada through the Adirondacks to cities downstate. Writer Christopher Shaw imagines this time and place in his new novel, The Power Line. It's the first of three books about the Adirondacks, a region he knows well. Christopher Shaw spoke with our book reviewer, […]
• First Person: Epic Trails, the Life of "Old Lard," 1000 Island Shipwrecks January 22, 2021(Jan 22, 2021) [full story]
• A Sacandaga Valley artist as 'a keeper of history' January 5, 2021(Jan 5, 2021) The COVID pandemic has created a lot of hardships, but for one Northville artist, 2020 was her most prolific year for painting. With no out-of-town guests, or vacations, Linda Finch says she spent most of her time painting her favorite subject – the Sacandaga Valley. Her great-grandparents were early settlers in the […]
• Books: new and old books about extraordinary black women November 3, 2020(Nov 3, 2020) Books about American history often tell a story filled with heroic white men. But what about Americans who were not white? And not male? Todd Moe talks with our book reviewer, Betsy Kepes, about a new book – "A Black Women’s History of the United States" – and an old one – […]
• First Person: RFK and Rural Poverty, Coming of Age in the Baby Boom, Otter Pups Return to the Wild October 16, 2020(Oct 16, 2020) [full story]

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