The Debrief Podcast
By Jackie Augustine & Josh Durso
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Hosts Jackie Augustine and Josh Durso take 3+ decades of combined experience inside and covering local government in Upstate New York to discuss the day's news and what's next.
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#236: IDAs and public access to meetings
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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#235: Ask Us Anything!
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May 21, 2026 |
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#234: Budget woes and long-term stability for municipalities
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May 07, 2026 |
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#233: Senior Housing Fix, Assessments, and Outputs vs. Outcomes
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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#232: The Bill Fulton Interview
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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#231: The Strong Towns Interview
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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#230: What's the cost of stagnation?
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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#229: Pro-housing, local elections, and Greenidge
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Wrapped: Goodbye 2024!
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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#227: Long-term planning!
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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#226: Biden Out, Wells Closure, Housing Crisis, and Community Engagement
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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#225: Small city economic development and assessments!
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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#224: Debriefing Finger Lakes Elections & What's Next
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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#223: Previewing elections in the FLX!
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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#222: Report on Aging Population in the FLX + Economic Development Turnover
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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#221: Cargill, Greenidge, and Sewage Sludge on Farm Fields!
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Answering YOUR questions about landfill, economic development, and more!
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Moving local elections + why can't workers afford FLX housing?
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Bitcoin mining, school safety, dead malls, and worker shortage | The Debrief | 4/4/22
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Geneva Update, Redistricting, Rent Prices, and a Backroom Deal | The Debrief 2/9/22
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Mixed messaging on Omicron, data on bail reform, economic development methods | The Debrief Podcast
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Discussing the Biggest Headlines | The Debrief Podcast | December 1, 2021
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Patients diverted from local hospitals, Wegmans security, and hedge fund takes aim at Lee newspapers
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Discussing The Biggest Headlines | The Weekend Debrief | November 10, 2021
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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#212: Finger Lakes & Vaccine Hesitancy
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May 19, 2021 |
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WEEKEND DEBRIEF: Are We REALLY Reopening?
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May 06, 2021 |
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#211: Lake Friendly Living
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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#210: Lowering the speed limit in Geneva
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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#209: Montezuma Audubon Shifts To Spring
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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#208: Economic development looks different in this community
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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#207: People need to understand benefit of infrastructure building
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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#206: Cities like Auburn deserved better from MLB
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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#205: Answering Your Questions About Coverage
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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#204: Hobart & William Smith Colleges Responds To Our Reporting
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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#203: Farming shifts focus to environmentally-friendly practices
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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#202: Historic Milestone For Finger Lakes Textiles
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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#201: Spring is coming to Montezuma Audubon Center
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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#200: Update on Cayuga Nation Legal Proceedings
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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#199: Getting insured during open enrollment in New York
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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#198: Economic development after the Coronavirus Pandemic
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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#197: Economic development before the Coronavirus Pandemic
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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#196: Common Redpoll, Sandhill Cranes, and Snow at Montezuma Audubon Center
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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#195: How Does Patch Labs Work?
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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#194: What's Next For Yates County?
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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#192: Nursing Home Death Toll Remains Mystery In New York
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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#193: Is Vaccine Rollout Happening Fast Enough In New York?
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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#191: How CSX Helped Prepare Wayne County For COVID-19
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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#190: It's Time For NYS To Help Counties
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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#189: Is There More Addiction Because Of COVID-19?
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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#188: Fighting Addiction Locally
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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#187: How will Ontario County enter 2021?
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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#186: What was it like getting the COVID-19 vaccine?
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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#185: Boys and Girls Club of Geneva joins forces with Foodlink
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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#184: Montezuma Audubon Looks Ahead To 2021
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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#183: Cayuga County Looks Ahead To 2021
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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#182: Tackling COVID-19 Through Unified County Effort
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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#181: Could Cargill Mine Under Cayuga Lake Collapse?
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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#180: Could NYS Cut Back On Road Salt During Winter?
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Future of Journalism: Regaining Trust In Media (Part 3)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Future of Journalism: Are News Paywalls About To Die? (Part 2)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Future of Journalism: Introducing Patch Labs (Part 1)
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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#177: Dealing With Winter Blues During A Pandemic
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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WEEKEND DEBRIEF: IDA Controversy, COVID Restrictions, and Hospitalization Rates
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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#176: Auburn Native Bill Fulton On Damage Of 'Urban Renewal'
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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#175: Why Isn't There More Free COVID Testing?
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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#174: Shopping Small Could Save The Economy
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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#173: Auburn Schools Push To Stay Open
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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WEEKEND DEBRIEF: Businesses fined for COVID violations, cluster zones questioned, and more!
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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#172: Are Micro-Cluster Zones Working In New York?
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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WEEKEND DEBRIEF: Budget re-votes, Cuomo lashes out, local health officials frustrated
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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#171: Are Amazon, Facebook, and Google Following You?
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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#170: Sandhill Cranes & Snowy Owls Appear At Montezuma Wetlands
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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#169: The Fishing On Seneca Lake Has 'Gone To Hell'
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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WEEKEND DEBRIEF: Election Results, Local PILOTs, and Fraud
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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#168: Leslie Danks Burke Stays In 58th Race
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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#167: Coping With Election Stress
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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#166: Sen. Tom O'Mara Focuses Campaign On Recovering Southern Tier
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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#165: Getting The Flu Shot During COVID-19 Pandemic
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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#164: Leslie Danks Burke Focuses Campaign On Small Biz & Rural Schools
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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#163: Fall Migration, Halloween Events, and HABs on Onondaga Lake
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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WEEKEND DEBRIEF: Travel Restrictions Loosening, Auburn Students Pushed Out, and FLH/URMC Partnership?
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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#162: Parrott Hall Progress in Geneva
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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NY-131 DEBATE: Jeff Gallahan & Matt Miller
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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#161: Providing Health Care To Poor, Rural Communities A Challenge
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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#160: There Is No Rent Moratorium In New York
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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#159: Brewing Through The Pandemic
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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WEEKEND DEBRIEF: Farm Days gets moved, NY's new COVID policies, and MORE!
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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#158: Landlords Struggle As Rent Goes Unpaid
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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#157: Inside The Leadership Change at Dixon Schwabl
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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#156: Will Mobile Sports Betting Ever Be Legalized In New York?
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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#155: Suicide Rate Among Teens & Young Adults Is Rising
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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#154: Making Better Fathers Through Communication
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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#153: What's Happening At The Montezuma Audubon Center?
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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WEEKEND DEBRIEF: Budgeting, COVID-19, and Greenidge Generation's Bitcoin
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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#152: Village of Newark Stays Open For Business
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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#152: HEALing Communities Study in Cayuga County
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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#151: Canandaigua Goes Back To School
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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#150: Yates County Administrator Nonie Flynn On COVID Budgeting
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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#149: Movie Theater Operators Wait To Reopen in New York
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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#148: Coalition Pushes For Open Government
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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#147: Canandaigua Emergency Squad Takes The Call
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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#146: South Seneca Goes Back To School
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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#145: Victor Goes Back To School
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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#144: Marcus Whitman Goes Back To School
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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#143: Auburn Goes Back To School
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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#142: Red Jacket Goes Back To School
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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#141: Seneca Falls CSD Goes Back To School
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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WEEKEND DEBRIEF: Future of schools, high school sports, and regional media coverage
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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#140: Immigrants Face Uncertainty Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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#139: Why Rochester & Finger Lakes Economy Remains At Risk
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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#138: Local Politics Or International Affairs?
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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#137: Branding the Greater ROC Region in the Finger Lakes
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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#136: Mental Health Pros Get Involved With Policing
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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#135: Tribes Work To Contain Coronavirus
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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#134: Renaming An Island On Canandaigua Lake
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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#133: Protesting for Black Lives in the Birthplace of Women's Rights
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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#132: Flocking to the Montezuma Audubon Center
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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#131: Becoming a Falconer
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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#130: Sen. Rob Ortt On Nursing Homes Amid Pandemic
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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WEEKEND DEBRIEF: Sports, school, and enforcement in New York
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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WEEKEND DEBRIEF: Update on Butler Sludge and Dresden Bitcoining
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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#129: From Asymptomatic To Dead at Elm Manor
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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#128: What happened at Elm Manor Nursing Home?
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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#127: Ontario Center Investigative Reporting Leads To Proposed Bill
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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#126: Akim Hudson, BLM Geneva Organizer on Reforming GPD
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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#125: Talking With Ontario Center Housekeeper Who Walked Out Amid Pandemic
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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#124: Deer Haven Park Reopening In Jeopardy?
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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#123: What's realistic this fall in classrooms?
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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#122: Mentorship on the Rise in the Finger Lakes
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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#121: Traditionalist Perspective On Cayuga Nation Lawsuit Against U.S. Government
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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#120: Future of Farms & Environmental Politics in 2020
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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WEEKEND DEBRIEF: The headlines for June 19th
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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#118: Juneteenth
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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#117: Feria Talks Confronting Racism in Geneva (Part II)
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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#117: Feria Talks Heritage, Local Restaurant, Implicit Bias (Part I)
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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#116: Hunting Permits During The Coronavirus Pandemic
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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#115: Prison Oversight Changes in New York State?
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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#114: Rental Assistance Program Launches for Residents
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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#113: What Changes To Voting Are Coming?
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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#112: Problem Gambling in the Finger Lakes
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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#111: Where Are The Turkeys?
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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#110: Protests, injustice, and economic reopening
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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#109: Separation of Church & State During COVID-19?
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May 29, 2020 |
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#108: Finger Lakes Drive-In Navigates Reopening
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May 28, 2020 |
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#107: Broadband Grant Lights Up Rural Upstate County
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May 27, 2020 |
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#106: Northeast Census Director Jeff Behler on Counting in 2020
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May 25, 2020 |
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#105: Memorial Day History Lesson
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May 25, 2020 |
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#104: Inside Prison During A Pandemic
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May 22, 2020 |
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#103: The Post-Pandemic Economy With SBA Leader
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May 20, 2020 |
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#102: Could Union Springs Get A Casino & Hotel?
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May 20, 2020 |
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#101: Keeping The Lights On During Pandemic
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May 19, 2020 |
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#100: Courts Go Virtual, But Are They Accountable?
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May 18, 2020 |
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#99: Weekend Debrief Welcomes New Face
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May 15, 2020 |
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#98: How Wells College Could Close Forever
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May 15, 2020 |
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#97: No New Chiropractors in New York?
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May 13, 2020 |
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#96: Cayuga Nation Dispute Continues in Seneca County
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May 13, 2020 |
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#95: Communication is Key
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May 12, 2020 |
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#94: Being Nimble During Economic Downturn
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May 10, 2020 |
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#93: Unemployment is a mess, education gets reimagined, and colleges shutting down?
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May 08, 2020 |
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#92: The High Cost Of Childcare During A Pandemic
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May 08, 2020 |
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#91: Public Hearings In Post-Pandemic World
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May 06, 2020 |
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#90: Waiting For Answers
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May 06, 2020 |
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#89: Pandemic Dairy Problem
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May 05, 2020 |
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#88: Leadership Ontario Looks Forward
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May 03, 2020 |
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#87: May Day in the Finger Lakes
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May 01, 2020 |
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#86: Subscribers & Newspapers Pandemic Dilemma
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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#85: Cayuga County Reports Rash Of Overdoses Amid Pandemic
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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#84: Workforce In Flux
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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#83 Delayed at the National Women's Hall of Fame
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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#82: Future of Schools, Economy, and Healthcare
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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#81: The Smith Center Stands Tall During Pandemic
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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#80: Photography During A Pandemic
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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#79: Rural Schools Are Dealing With Multiple Crisis'
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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#78: From Politics To Pandemic Response
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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#77: Power Plant Uses Subsidies To Enter Block Chain
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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#76: Respect the Vinyl
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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#75: Former Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen on COVID-19 Response
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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#74: Frontline Workers
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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#73: Sent Home From College in March
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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#71: Feeding Geneva During A Pandemic (Part II)
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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#72: Debating COVID, reopening, and more! (April 10th)
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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#71: Feeding Geneva During a Pandemic (Part I)
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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#70: Missing Coronavirus Tests
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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#69: Campaigning during a pandemic
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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#68: Solidarity at 6 gets loud in Geneva
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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#67: Local Economics of COVID
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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#65: Changes to the podcast & what's coming up as COVID-19 fight progresses
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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#64: Answering your questions about Coronavirus coverage across Upstate New York
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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#63: Breaking down the headlines
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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#62: Sludge coming to Wayne, YOUR questions, and MORE
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Episode #61: Debriefing Cheribundi, and MORE
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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Debrief #60: Committee on Open Government, Upstate Economy, No Pledge
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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#59: Kolb DWI, Illegal Meeting in Seneca County, and Cuomo's Upstate Veto
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Criminal Justice Reform Blind Spots, Land Sale in Geneva, and HWS Deal
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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Previewing Elections in the Finger Lakes
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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#56: Local Campaign Transparency
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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Ep. #55: Housing, Economic Development, and Workforce Failures
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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Ep. #54: Musselman Sold, Seneca Army Depot, and Planning in Government
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Episode #53: DRI, Legislative Session Ends, and Tuition Increases AGAIN
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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Ep. #52: Affordable Housing, Resistance to Vaccines, Listener Questions, and MORE
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May 18, 2019 |
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Geneva City Council, Rural Schools Decline & More
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May 08, 2019 |
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Discussing the city of Geneva with Jim Meaney
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Apr 20, 2019 |
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Discussing Katko's Challenger, SF Resolution, & Geneva City Council Vacancy
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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Ted Baker & Josh Durso debate controversy in Seneca Falls, plastic bags, and more
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Discussing local election results, viability of villages, controversial lagoon in Cayuga County, and college admissions scandal
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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Discussing Judges Censured in Wayne County, Seneca Falls Audit, and Midwife in Yates County
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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Discussing a new election calendar, fairness of electoral compensation, and outside funding
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Discussing migrant workforce in the Finger Lakes, abrupt restaurant closure, and more
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Feb 08, 2019 |