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WSHU's Sabrina Garone spoke with Jase Bernhardt, a Hofstra University meteorologist and professor, about the declining air quality in the Northeast due to smoke from the Canadian wildfires. He said our region saw the worst of it Wednesday afternoon, but it’s hard to predict when skies will look normal again.
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New York will soon enact a law to protect the remains of Indigenous people and others found in unmarked graves.
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At an event with New York City Mayor Eric Adams and local district attorneys, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed spending bills that further rolled back bail reforms.
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Students and administrators in one New York school district are wrestling with how to respond to the state’s newly approved ban on the use of Native American-themed logos and names.
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Germain Smith, a Shinnecock tribal leader, responds to common arguments by school districts in opposition to the ban on Native American names, mascots and imagery in public schools in New York.
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The New York Board of Regents unanimously voted to ban public schools from using Native American mascots, names, logos and other imagery.
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A onetime aide to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo who accused him of sexual harassment in a federal lawsuit filed a separate lawsuit against the state.
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Several pieces of legislation are being considered to require financial literacy classes in New York state. Advocates say money management is a vital component to the lives of students.
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Shinnecock Tribal member Germain Smith has been selected to join an advisory council of Indigenous leaders formed by the New York State Department of Education.
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WSHU’s Charles Lane spoke with Chris Gelardi, an investigative reporter at New York Focus, who obtained documents showing how the New York State Police have been using an array of programs that sift through mass quantities of social media information including from Twitter and Facebook.