Glens Falls DRI, tentative budget deal, Aileen O'Donoghue
Northern Light
English - April 16, 2024 04:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews news adirondacks north country public radio Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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(Apr 16, 2024) Eight years after it was awarded a Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant, Glens Falls is getting close to finishing its DRI projects, which would make it the first community in the North Country to do so; Hochul announced that a tentative $237 billion budget deal has been reached. A surprising and controversial change is a plan to close regional centers that help people with developmental disabilities hire their own healthcare workers, and move them out of state; we debrief with astronomer Aileen O'Donoghue about the eclipse and consider a star that looks like it will explode.