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TODAY'S STORIES
How Ithacans And The City Can Curb The Water Shortage
Much of the Finger Lakes and Southern Tier is facing a severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The City of Ithaca is asking residents to limit water use.
Governor Cuomo got his moment on the convention stage Thursday night before Hillary Clinton's speech. Cuomo delivered his speech before the primetime program began, around 7:30 pm, and he started the speech by mentioning his father, Mario Cuomo, and Mario's famous 1984 Tale of Two Cities speech at the San Francisco convention.
'People Are Disappearing' As Opioid Crisis Rages On
The number of heroin and opioid overdoses continues to rise in central New York. According to the latest figures from the Onondaga County Medical Examiner's Office, there have been 30 overdose deaths to date in 2016, compared with 52 all of last year.
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ATC/Fresh Air on WSQX (Starting August 29)
In response to listener requests, we're adding a couple of favorite news/talk programs to our evening line-up on WSQX. Starting Monday August 29, another hour of All Things Considered can be heard weekdays at 6:00 pm. Plus, Fresh Air will also be found on WSQX, starting at 4:00 pm.
Don't worry, both shows will stay at the current time slots on WSKG Radio, but fans have consistently asked for more broadcast times. By adding these news-talk programs to WSQX, we can now provide more options.
In addition, PRI's "The World", which has been a daily feature on WSQX since February 2016, can be heard at a new time. It's will be available at 5:00pm on WSQX. The broadcast time of Climate Connections, which airs at 4:59 pm, remains unchanged.
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ON SATURDAY
PBS NewsHour Weekend | When Climate Change Means A Disappearing Home
Over the past 60 years, the tribal community of Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana has lost 98 percent of their land to coastal erosion caused by sinking land, rising seas and increased storm surge. Now, they have been given a federal grant to completely relocate to a new piece of land further north. It's the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the impacts of climate change. NewsHour Weekend's Hari Sreenivasan reports.
July 29, 5:00pm | WSKG TV
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ON TOMORROW
Earlier this week, the leader of New York's mainline Senate Democrats Andrea Stewart-Cousins joined us from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Host Susan Arbetter also had a chance to speak with the Chairman of the Assembly Health Committee, Dick Gottfried, who joined her from the convention, too. But rather than talk politics, they talked policy - specifically, a bill he's sponsored that would shift New York to a single payer healthcare system:
The bill has been criticized in a recent Empire Center report. After Gottfried. Also featured is the report's author, health policy analyst Bill Hammond who claims that the Assemblyman's so-called "Albany Plan" would cost state taxpayers billions of dollars.
And finally we hear some DNC analysis from political strategist Bruce Gyory of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips. It's all coming up on this week's edition of Capitol Pressroom Weekend.
Guests:
Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins, (D-Yonkers) Senate Democratic Leader
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, (D-Manhattan), Chairman, Assembly Health Committee
Bill Hammond, Health Policy Director, Empire Center for New York State Policy
Bruce Gyory, senior strategist, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; UAlbany adjunct professor of political science.
July 31, Noon | WSQX RADIO
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