Hudson Mohawk Magazine

Climate activists are dismayed that for the second year in the row NYS lawmakers failed to pass any major climate legislation, with bills to enact public power or halt new fossil fuel power plants not even being voted upon in committee. We talk about the Climate and Community Investment Act (polluter penalty / carbon tax) with Arielle Swirnoff of NY Renews. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.

Among the issues that failed to pass this year in the New York State legislature was the NY Medical Aid in Dying Act. We talk with Corinne Carey, Senior Campaign Director for Compassion and Care in NY, about why this bill is important and why it didn't pass. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine,

First, Mark Dunlea gives an overview of the recently concluded 2021 legislative session, with a focus on climate change, single payer health care and criminal justice reforms.

Then, on Reclaiming History, Lovonia Mallory interviews Egyptologist Dr. Solange Ashby, author of Calling Out to Isis: The Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae.

After that, Paul Smart brings us coverage of the Albany Mayoral debate, in which incumbent Kathy Sheehan faced off against the Rev. Valerie Faust and Republican candidate Alicia Purdy

Then, HMM’s Corinne Carey speaks with Marketa Edwards, who is running to represent District 6 on Troy's City Council.

And to close out the show, Moses Nagel takes a trip to his local library and speaks with Deanna DiCarlo and Lauren Cardinal, a few of the librarians who have kept the library going through the pandemic.

Mark Dunlea gives an overview of the recently concluded 2021 legislative session, with a focus on climate change, single payer health care and criminal justice reforms. There are short interviews with Arielle Swernoff of NY Renews on the Climate and Community Investment Act and Corinne Carey of Compassion and Care on the NY Medical Aid in Dying Act. For Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.

Marketa Edwards is running to represent District 6 on Troy's City Council. She's challenging the candidate endorsed by the Democrats, Cheryl Kennedy, in the primary election on June 22. Edwards spoke with HMM correspondent Corinne Carey about why she chose to run for this seat, the experiences that led her to become a community leader, and the issues she hopes to tackle should she win. Early voting in this election starts on Saturday, June 12.

An in-person interview with Christoph Paul, the lead singer/songwriter and bassist of the Dionysus Effect, a local rock band from Troy, NY. The interview explores his motivation to start the band, goals for the future and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on local musicians in the Capital Region.

In this first episode of the Plastic Bucket, we talk with Sharon Lavigne of Rise St. James in St. James Parish, Louisiana, about their upcoming Juneteenth event. The fifth district of St. James Parish is fighting a massive plastics plant from being built in their neighborhood. The site where Formosa intends to build a 2,500 acre plastics plant contains hundreds of acres of wetlands and the graves of people who were enslaved. Rise St. James will honor those ancestors at their Juneteenth event. They hope to see grocery stores, green jobs, and housing for St. James Parish instead of more petrochemical infrastructure for Cancer Alley.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine,

We begin by listening in on a Public Safety Committee in which concerns for inherent and systemic racism in police training were voiced.

Then, for this week’s Labor Bucket, we have an interview with Adam Pelletier, the New President of "Troy Area Labor Council."

Later on, early voting begins this weekend and we have an interview with Cheryl Kennedy who is running for a Troy City Council seat to represent District 6

After that, we have the second part of our interview with Utica resident and Burmese revolutionary activist Zaw Naing Win

Finally, we hear about the locally created MoonCatcher Project which provides reusable washable menstrual products to thousands of menstruating young people.

Albany's mayoral race has two women facing each other on primary ballots June 22, in addition to the city's usual array of write-in candidacies. Incumbent Kathy Sheehan and the Rev. Valerie Faust recently faced off in a virtual Meet the Candidate event to demonstrate their different approaches and summarize the raison d'etre of their candidacies. Hudson Mohawk Magazine's Paul Smart edited down the nearly two hour debate, which included Republican candidate Alicia Purdy, to get at some key differences.

Noreen McKee, Board Member of the Rensselaer County League of Women Voters spoke to HMM's Melissa Bromley about the latest in the New York State Attorney General's lawsuit against Rensselaer County Board of Elections for failing to provide voters in Rensselaer County with adequate and equitable access to early voting poll sites, specifically in communities of color.

On Wednesday, 6/9, the Board of Elections filed an appeal to Friday's decision from Judge Adam W. Silverman that the BOE must select a location in Troy's city central.