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Officials are warning of poor air quality conditions as summer approaches. Connecticut House Republicans offer up a budget plan for the first time in years. National Grid proposes a rate hike. And New York lawmakers still have major items to work out for the state budget.


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Sabrina is host and producer of WSHU’s daily podcast After All Things. She also produces the climate podcast Higher Ground and other long-form news and music programs at the station. Sabrina spent two years as a WSHU fellow, working as a reporter and assisting with production of The Full Story.
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