• ALBANY INTERNET Chelsea Diana in the Albany Business Review reports the City of Albany is forming a working group to study the city's broadband Internet situation. “The first step is asking the right questions, which is what we want this study to do,” said Jeff Mirel, a member of the task force and executive vice president at The Rosenblum Cos. in a statement. “What are the real broadband needs and issues that both businesses and residents experience here? Is it infrastructure, technology, education, affordability? Meanwhile, nearby, the story says Rensselaer is considering building a fiber connection throughout the city. Read the full story in the Albany Business Review.

• CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? Marina Abramović, who wants to open a performance art museum in Hudson, quoted in CNN this week, said, "We can learn telepathy in four years. We use telephones, but telepathy's cheaper. There is so much extra sense of perception that our brain can develop with training that we don't because we use gadgets and use computers and use all these other things that actually make us invalids."

• ON THE AIR At 2 p.m. Sun., July 5 "Hudson Air Radio Theater" goes on the air at PS21 in Chatham. The local group does their take on "classic and contemporary radio theater performed live on stage."