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Troy Prep Media Club students Kaitlyn Miller and Tayleese Chestnut(with project leader Catherine Rafferty) discuss struggles with remote learning during the pandemic, as well as how learning might look in the future.

Ollie Westfall, owner of OMI Maple & Honey, spoke with HMM's Sina Basila Hickey about his bees and the struggle with the varroa mite.

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Stephen Ridler, the manager of the Troy Farmers Market, is keeping everyone safe one Saturday at a time. Stephen spoke with HMM's Erika Dulcinia Diggs about long anticipated return of the Farmers Market! Troy's Farmers Market will be open this Saturday April 3rd at the Riverfront Park from 9am-1pm. You don't want to miss it; the food is always fresh! Stephen ensures that the safety and health of the market's customers is top priority.

This week President Biden announced his "green" economic stimulus as well as his goals for offshore wind. Stanford professor Mark Jacobson, the author of numerous studies on how to move to 100% clean renewable energy, discusses Biden's climate agenda as well as the false solutions of nuclear and carbon capture technology. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.

HMM Correspondent Erika Diggs talks with retired Meteorologist Hugh Johnson in this episode of As the World Turns. They talk about how climate change is constantly affecting our daily lives.

On March 21, 2021 the Hudson Mohawk Magazine Network Roaming Labor Correspondent, Willie Terry, attended a virtual press rally sponsored by the Alabama Poor People's Campaign and Amazon Workers to demand dignity, respect, and the right to unionize. This is Amazon workers' first viable attempt to form a union at the United States company. Nearly 6,000 warehouse workers must mail their ballots to the National Labor Relations Board by March 29 to certify the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU). In this segment, you will hear from Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, Dough Jones, and Big Mike and speaking in support of their struggle to unionize. This is part 2

A special pandemic-inspired mural continues its tour around the Capital Region this week. HMM Producer Jeremy Clowe caught up with artist Rachel Baxter to learn more about her work, and what she hopes it will offer the local community that she loves.

You can view the mural "Still Life, With Gratitude" in-person this Thursday, April 1, and Friday, April 2, at the Albany Institute of History & Art, and on Saturday, April 3, at The Crossings of Colonie. Learn more at unitedwaygcr.org/tribute

This is the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, broadcasting from the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY

Today, we talk with Good Jobs First about their new study on how school districts lose $2.4 billion for corporate tax breaks.

Then for our peace segment we talk with Pat Hynes about the relationship between the military and climate change.

And later on, Mark Emannation joins us to talk about the mass food distribution on Thursday at the Italian Community Center in Troy.

After that, we have an update on Troy's Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative.

Finally, we hear from artist Rachel Baxter who currently has a touring mural named, Still Life, With Gratitude.

Food insecurity has risen due to the pandemic, and food distributions have been an important way for individuals and families to get access to food and necessary nutrients. On April 1st there will be a mass Food Distribution at the Italian Community Center in Troy, beginning at 9:30am. We welcome Mark Emanatian, Director of Capital District Area Labor Federation, to give us more information on this event and the need for such events in the capital region.

The various police reform proposals made in the Capital District under Governor Cuomo's Executive Order have generally been found lacking by police reform advocates. We talk with Dr. Alice Green of the Center for Law and Justice. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.