Hudson Mohawk Magazine

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Peer Specialist Diana Babcock sheds light on mental health and mental illness, dispelling myths and mystery surrounding these issues. Diana speaks with Marsha Lazarus about her lived experiences and the work that she does in support of folks who are struggling and seeking help.

HMM Correspondent Eunice Jeong spoke with Manyi Li ('23), Sophia Jin ('24), and Tracy Cao ('24) from Emma Willard School to discuss their experience with the American Healthcare System as international students. This conversation focuses on their personal experiences and opinions. How do they have similar perspectives but also different ones?

Therese L. Broderick, MFA, has lived the sweet life of a poet for more than two decades. Her poems have been published widely in several formats and have won awards both locally and beyond. She lives in Albany, New York with her optimistic husband, two fat cats, and a disheveled garden.

On April 19, 2018, Therese read her poem "The Daughter on Sunday Display" at the Third Thursday Poetry Night at The Social Justice Center in Albany.

In this first part of our conversation, we talk about her what inspired that poem, traveling with her husband, and how poetry fits into everyday life around the world.

Now that our weather is finally warming up, hear how Albany's Radix Ecological Sustainability Center will be studying the effect of "urban heat" in the South End and other areas. Stacy Pettigrew, Assistant Professor at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and Radix co-founder and Executive Director, describes the upcoming research, its relationship to health and environmental justice, other Radix programs, and more. Produced by Brea Barthel for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

Blair Horner of NYPIRG (New York Public Interest Research Group) provides an overview of the recently passed state budget and what the legislature will contend with until they adjourn in early June. Climate, higher education, housing, campaign finance reform, and mass transit are some of the issues he discusses with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine:

We begin with Raya Salter, founder of The Energy Justice Law and Policy Center, explaining her concerns about New York’s possible energy “cap and trade” programs.

Then, our youngest correspondent, Niko Nagel-Dreby, talks to local peace activist John Amadon about his life and their shared Quaker background.

Later on, Sina Basila Hickey reports on the recent SNUG anti-gun-violence peace march in Troy.

After that, Moses Nagel tells us about the return of First Friday events in Albany.

Finally, Hugh Johnson is off this week, but we have a live interview with Janice Pride-Boone about People’s Health Sanctuary and the campus-wide Sanctuary open house taking place this Saturday May 13th.

First Friday is back in Albany. Last Friday marked the first edition of a reborn tradition for arts and fun in Albany. Moses Nagel was there.

Environmental justice advocates have long been wary of cap and trade programs, like California’s carbon markets and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in NY, which are shown to be both ineffective and inequitably burden frontline communities. This is because such schemes allow polluting facilities, which are more likely to be located in frontline communities, to purchase allowances and offsets to evade caps and essentially pay to pollute. Raya Salter, founder of The Energy Justice Law and Policy Center and a member of the NYS Climate Action Council, discusses concerns with NY's developing cap-and-invest program with Mark Dunlea of Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

7 Year old correspondent Nikolai Nagel-Dreby talks to local peace activist, John Amidon about his life and their shared experience at a Albany Quaker Meeting.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine:

We begin with Mark Dunlea’s interview with Eric LeCompte of the Jubilee USA Network regarding how the NY Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act would help remedy developing country's financial problems.

Then, Moses Nagel reports about three Rensselaer County officials turning themselves into the FBI on charges of voter fraud on April 27, 2023.

Later on, Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry reports on the Public Employees Federation Wellness and Community Fair that was held at the Washington Avenue Armory in Albany on April 29, 2023.

After that, Linda MacFarlane, executive director of the Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region, explains how the commercial building at 153 S. Pearl St. in Albany's South End is being developed as a "Community Investment Trust" to be collaboratively owned by local low-income investors.

Finally, Alisha Washington attended a panel discussion on why accessibility matters in business.