On this episode: a new poll shows New Yorkers like the job Gov. Andrew Cuomo is doing, but still give him low favorability marks. We speak with the New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli. And we look back on the late novelist Toni Morrison’s years in Albany.

On this episode, we hear from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo about the weekend’s mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. Longtime Massachusetts Congressman Richard Neal is trying to fend off a Democratic primary. And two Hudson Valley Congressmen have different ideas about impeachment.

On this episode of the WAMC News Podcast, political candidates in New York can now pay for childcare with campaign funds. Pittsfield marks Herman Melville’s 200th birthday. And a Troy city councilor introduces a local law to reduce pollution.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs a bill decriminalizing marijuana possession in New York. We remember the late president of Siena College. And a gymnastics star is coming to Albany in August.

We learn about a three-day conference on plastic pollution. Some anti-vaxxers confront a New York state Senator over a recent vote. Massachusetts has several options for new east-west rail transit. And Hampshire College gets a new president.

We speak with a new candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. And Vermont’s Congressman-at-large holds a forum after declaring his support for the impeachment of President Trump.

We meet the first declared candidate for governor of Vermont in the 2020 election. And you can finally fire your bookie if you want to bet on sports in the Capital Region.

The New York State Education Commissioner is stepping down. The mayor of Troy vetoes the latest sanctuary city measure. And this weekend’s baseball Hall of Fame inductions in Cooperstown features the first unanimous choice.

We welcome back Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan to the WAMC News Podcast, this time for a conversation about the federal government accessing the state’s driver’s license database.

We look at a potential cross-state school merger in Vermont and Massachusetts. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo discusses the state’s concerns about ICE. And the city of Springfield’s drinking water has too much of a certain contaminant.