We speak with Schenectady Police Chief Eric Clifford about his decision to kneel and march with protesters. And we talk with Troy Mayor Patrick Madden.

We speak with Kathryn de Wit, who manages the Pew Charitable Trust’s broadband research initiative.

We speak with Jennifer Wilson, deputy director of the League of Women Voters of New York State. The non-partisan good-government group is part of a coalition called Let New York Vote, which is advocating for a variety of measures to ensure voting continues this year despite the pandemic. We’re mostly looking at voting for June […]

We speak with former Massachusetts Inspector General Gregory Sullivan, Research Director at the Pioneer Institute, which released a new study this week concluding that chronic understaffing due to federal and state standards made the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home vulnerable to the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 70 residents.

We speak with New York state Assemblywoman Latrice Walker. The Democrat has been in office since 2015, representing the 55th district — in Brooklyn.

We get a COVID-19 update from Dr. Malik Magdon-Ismail, Professor of Computer Science at RPI, who has been working on a computer model of the pandemic.In this interview, Dr. Magdon-Ismail refers to a New York State Department of Health website, which you can find here.  

We speak with Aaron Pacitti, associate professor of economics at Siena College, about the latest unemployment numbers released Friday.

We speak with economist Hugh Johnson about the coronavirus’ financial impacts, and we talk with Albany Public Library Executive Director Scott Jarzombek about library services during the pandemic.

On this episode, we get a coronavirus update from Dr. Andy Coates of Albany Medical Center. Oh, well, thank you very much, Ian, for having me. I would say that the curve is indeed bent. There’s a flattening of the number of cases. The cases are still coming in Albany, they’re coming rather slowly, but […]

We speak with incoming Siena College President Chris Gibson, a former Congressman who will begin his tenure with Siena facing a nearly $9 million revenue shortfall.