Day: March 12, 2026

Amid Epstein Files Fallout, Bard’s Sexual Misconduct History Gets New Scrutiny

Story by Elias Guerra, WAMC/New York Public News Network “So my argument is a pretty simple one — that 16 is now what 18 was 50 years ago.” That’s what Bard College President Leon Botstein said in 1999, talking to Diane Rehm on WAMU about his book, “Jefferson’s Child,” which argues that students should start school at […]
Amid Epstein Files Fallout, Bard’s Sexual Misconduct History Gets New Scrutiny

From High Utility Bills to Local Roads: Assemblymember Paula Kay on Budget Priorities

Budget negotiations are heating up in the New York state legislature as lawmakers race to meet the April 1 budget deadline. For Assembly District 100 Assemblymember Paula Kay, high utility bills, childcare, and local road maintenance are among her top priorities for her largely rural district. Both the state Senate and Assembly released their one-house […]
From High Utility Bills to Local Roads: Assemblymember Paula Kay on Budget Priorities

SPOTLIGHT PA: ICE Warehouse Has Years of Unresolved Construction Problems, Records Show

This story was produced by the Berks County bureau of Spotlight PA, an independent, nonpartisan newsroom. Sign up for Good Day, Berks, a daily dose of essential local stories at spotlightpa.org/newsletters/gooddayberks. UPPER BERN — The developer of a Berks County warehouse that ICE wants to use as a processing facility hasn’t fixed construction deficiencies at […]
SPOTLIGHT PA: ICE Warehouse Has Years of Unresolved Construction Problems, Records Show

Remembering ‘Country’ Joe McDonald, ’60s Rock Star, Proud Protest Counterculture Icon

Country Joe McDonald, the singer-songwriter whose antiwar anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” became a defining voice of the 1960s counterculture, has died at 84. His wife of 43 years, Kathy McDonald, said he passed March 7 at his home in Berkeley, California, from complications of Parkinson’s disease. McDonald rose to fame as the frontman of Country Joe […]
Remembering ‘Country’ Joe McDonald, ’60s Rock Star, Proud Protest Counterculture Icon

Free Movie Nights Aim to Build Bridges Around Transgender Identity

The Trans + Support Initiative of Sullivan and Wayne Counties (TSI) is launching a free community screening series called “Entertainment, Popcorn, and Education” with the hope that a local theater, a bag of popcorn, and the right film might do what policy debates and social media rarely manage: soften the distance between people who see […]
Free Movie Nights Aim to Build Bridges Around Transgender Identity