On the podcast today: there are fresh concerns over an uptick in COVID-19 cases in area schools, Congress is moving closer to a stimulus plan with individual checks for 600 thousand WNY households, and there are makeover plans for Grant Street. Also just after Thomas O’Neil-White’s series on parole reform, a new think tank study looks at the financial impacts of the current system. And another day in Albany means reporter Karen DeWitt has more on the growing sexual harassment accusations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo.