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New partnership with Spotlight PA to provide the Catskill region with more investigative and public-service journalism
Christopher Baxter is the executive director and editor-in-chief of Spotlight PA For the past decade, there’s been nothing short of a crisis in the Pennsylvania state capital. More and more of Pennsylvania’s…
Wayne Brown – Increasing Access to Mental Health Counselors in New York State
Wayne Brown, a licensed clinical social worker specializing in trauma work, family therapy, and LGBT work, sheds light on a new legislative bill intended to increase access to mental health counselors…
Proposed NY Carbon Capture Project Concerns Catskill Mountainkeeper
A startup company is reportedly planning a massive carbon-capture project in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations in New York’s Southern Tier. The plan reportedly includes drilling in shale formations to inject…
Reporters Roundtable for November 2023 – Hudson River and Election Update
Join host Patricio Robayo for an enlightening discussion on the local stories with guest reporters Ruby Rayner from The River Reporter and Roger Hannigan Gilson from the Times Union. Together, they…
Liberty High School Senior Goes Beyond The Rainbow to NASA
Jayla Edwards may have been singing “Somewhere over the Rainbow” this fall, but her goals go far above the rainbow. The Liberty High School senior, who played Dorothy in the Liberty Performing…
DRBC Proposed Rule Changes Draw Scrutiny and Criticism
The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) faced public outcry during two recent hearings regarding proposed amendments to its “Rules of Practice and Procedure.” While the DRBC deemed the changes as necessary updates,…
No Property Tax Increase in Proposed Sullivan County 2024 Budget
Sullivan County unveiled its tentative 2024 Budget, and the county says it will be expanding services without a tax hike. Radio Catskill’s Patricio Robayo spoke to Sullivan County Manager Josh Potosek about…
Pro Publica Report: OSHA Investigates Small Dairy Farms So Rarely That Many Worker Advocates Don’t Bother to Report Deaths and Injuries
ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom producing investigative journalism and a new investigation by ProPublica finds when a farmworker is injured or dies on a Catskills or New York dairy farm,…