The week ended with the the $600/week unemployment benefit from the previous Coronavirus relief package expiring and no new relief bill in sight. Congressman Matt Cartwright (D-PA 8) talks to us about…
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Listen: News Roundup with River Reporters’ Owen Walsh
It’s nearly the end of July. School district reopening plans are due in to New York Governor Cuomo by Friday. Schools in PA have been working on their reopening plans, too. And…
Listen: WJFF’s James B Huntington’s Work Shift
Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin says unemployment benefits are dissuading people from working. MLB says it’s going to make it through this truncated baseball season. And some folks say things will be…
Special Coverage – A Celebration of Life for Congressman John Lewis – Thurs. 7/30, 10:30am
Concluding the March in Selma (left to right): Ralph Abernathy, James Forman, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Jesse L. Douglas, John Lewis Photographer – Alan Shapiro; Courtesy, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian…
Listen: NY State Senator Jen Metzger gives updates on a rare July session
NY State Senator Jen Metzger, who represents the 42nd District, told Radio Catskill why the legislature didn’t take up balancing the $15 billion budget shortfall. And she gave us an update on…
Listen: Dr. Sean McVeigh, head of the COVID19 unit at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Honesdale on school openings
The CDC issued a call to reopen schools in a package of new “resources and tools” posted on its website last night that opened with a statement that —-as the New York…
Listen: Local News Roundup with Owen Walsh of the River Reporter
Owen Walsh of the River Reporter fills us in on the latest about the suspected shooter of a federal judge’s son and husband, the anti-feminist lawyer in a FedEx uniform found dead…
Listen: Wayne County Commissioner Jocelyn Cramer on Wayne County Pandemic and Safety Measures
In her first live update since May, Wayne County Commissioner Jocelyn Cramer is cautious on COVID, forthright on food (and the need for it), and sensible on the Census (and the need…
Listen: James B. Huntington’s Latest Edition of Work Shift
Where are we in terms of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, and what’s it got to do with the (soaring) price of silver? These questions and more on this latest edition of Work…