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Tuesday
May
12
10:16 pm
Radio News: Wheeler testifies about FCC's biggest budget
The Federal Communications Commission has a $388 million proposed budget, up 13 million from this year's, and up nearly 30 million from two years ago. The new budget is the largest ever, and Wheeler e...
Tuesday
May
12
7:30 am
Common Council to decide fate of Furgary shacks
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="274"] Fugary shacks (circa 2012) (Source: Michael Cooney)[/caption] John Mason is reporting in the Register-Star the Hudson Common Council will decide next...
Tuesday
May
12
6:59 am
Fire continues to burn in Catskill Forest Preserve
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="208"] The fire is located just off of Heavenly Valley Road in Lanesville.(Source: Google maps)[/caption] Kate Seckinger is reporting in The Daily Mail state...
Tuesday
May
12
6:42 am
John Flanagan elected Senate majority leader
Casey Seiler is reporting at Capitol Confidential state Sen. John Flanagan was elected Mon., May 11, to lead the chamber’s 33-member Republican conference. Flanagan succeeds Dean Skelos exactly one we...
Tuesday
May
12
12:03 am
DiNapoli audit questions Start-Up NY ad spending
Laura Nahmias is reporting at Capital New York in an audit released Mon., May 11, state comptroller Tom DiNapoli criticized the state’s decision to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising...
Tuesday
May
12
12:02 am
Retail gasoline prices on the rise statewide
The Daily Freeman is reporting the average retail gasoline price statewide in New York rose 4.3 cents per gallon last week, to $2.83 as of Sun., May 11. The national average increased 4 cents per gall...
Tuesday
May
12
12:01 am
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 local almanac
Weather right now [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="128"] Cairo: High 85F; low 50F.[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="125"] Catskill: High 86F; low 52F.[/caption] &nbs...
Monday
May
11
11:28 pm
Radio news: Payola on radio could be more legal soon
May 12 is the Federal Communications Commission's deadline for public comments on a few large broadcasters’ proposal to legalize payola, pay-to-play "advertisements" for new music on the radio. Curren...
Monday
May
11
6:00 am
Weekend in review
Some of the stories that made the news Fri., May 8 through Sun., May 10 Michael Ryan reported in the Windham Journal, the forest fire that burned in the mountains of Greene County for four days has b...
Monday
May
11
12:01 am
Monday, May 11, 2015 local almanac
Weather right now [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="128"] Cairo: High 88F; low 65F.[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="125"] Catskill: High 86F; low 65F.[/caption] &nbs...
Sunday
May
10
11:23 pm
Radio News: Net neutrality appeals moving through courts slowly
Harry Cole at the Comm Law Blog reports that, though the Federal Communications Commission approved net netutrality in February and published the Report and Order last month, there are challenges from...
Sunday
May
10
12:03 am
NY lawmaker authors bill to ban high-volatility oil trains
The Daily Freeman reports that a New York legislator introduced federal legislation that would immediately ban the interstate shipment of high-volatility crude oil by rail. The bill would also direct...
Sunday
May
10
12:01 am
Sunday, May 10, 2015 local almanac
Local News Local news Click here for news from Wave Farm‘s WGXC 90.7-FM in the Hudson Valley, New York for Sun., May 10. PLAY AUDIO (3:13) Local weather forecast Today's forecast is specific to A...
Saturday
May
09
12:03 am
Greene County wildfire gets state help
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] A wildfire is burning on the side of a mountain peak in rough terrain off Route 214 near Lanesville. (Source: Google maps)[/caption]Governor Andrew Cuomo...
Saturday
May
09
12:02 am
Galvan announces Bard, BUFSD, BOCES plan
The Galvan Foundation Fri., May 8, announced it will partner with the Berkshire Union Free School, Questar III BOCES (BOW-seez) and Bard College to create a Bard program at the Warren St. Academy in H...
Saturday
May
09
12:01 am
Saturday, May 9, 2015 local almanac
Local News Local news from Wave Farm‘s WGXC 90.7-FM in the Hudson Valley, New York for Sat., May 9. PLAY AUDIO (2:49) Local weather forecast Today's forecast is specific to Acra, in Greene County...
Friday
May
08
1:21 pm
Air Quality Alert in Ulster, Dutchess counties
The Daily Freeman reports that the state Department of Environmental Conservation issued an “air quality alert” for Ulster and Dutchess counties from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fri., May 8. "Air quality level...
Friday
May
08
12:06 pm
Study looks at best places for children to grow up
The New York Times is reporting a large, new Harvard study finds that poor children who grow up in some cities and towns have sharply better odds of escaping poverty than similar poor children elsewhe...
Friday
May
08
7:05 am
Wildfire burning on mountainside in Lanesville
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] A wildfire is burning on the side of a mountain peak in rough terrain off Route 214 near Lanesville. (Source: Google maps)[/caption] Ryan Anglim and M...
Friday
May
08
6:38 am
Sixth and final season of PCB dredging begins
The Associated Press is reporting clean-up crews have begun the sixth and final season of PCB dredging in the upper Hudson River. Regional Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Judith Enck sai...