John Camera

1 month ago | spectrumnews1.com | John Camera

Common ground is not just the name of an event partially produced by SUNY New Paltz students. It’s what journalist and visiting professor Noor Tagouri is hoping to realize at a forum discussing the May 2 police raid on a pro-Palestine campus encampment. “That was the thing that the students kept bringing up over and over again," she said. "They felt like they hadn't had a place to process this or to heal. That it was just swept under the rug.

2 months ago | spectrumlocalnews.com | Wendy Wright |Brian Dwyer |Spencer Conlin |Viktoria Hallikäär |John Camera

Trucks with New York Army National Guard soldiers rumbled onto the grounds of prisons throughout upstate on Wednesday to replace correction officers protesting outside of about 30 facilities on the third day of a work strike that has grown into a standoff. A state judge on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order under the state's Taylor Law prohibiting correction officers from striking or engaging in other concerted work stoppages or slowdowns, according to a court filing in Erie County.

2 months ago | spectrumlocalnews.com | John Camera

Pharmacists are calling on Congress to pass reforms for pharmacy benefit managers, also known as PBMs, who act as middlemen between pharmaceutical companies and pharmacies, and are supposed to negotiate the cost of drugs to save patients money. But pharmacists like Pine Plains’ Nasir Mahmood say they haven’t been doing that, and instead, they’ve driven up costs and made it harder for locally owned pharmacists. Standing alongside NY-18 Rep.

2 months ago | spectrumlocalnews.com | John Camera

More people than ever are enjoying New York state’s parks, which saw a record-breaking 88 million visitors last year, boosted, in part, by the eclipse and the parks’ centennial celebration. So what's in store for 2025? Record-breaking attendance for 12 straight years and counting: State Parks Commissioner Randy Simons says New York’s parks are as popular as ever. “People are looking at their parks in a much different way," he said.

2 months ago | spectrumlocalnews.com | John Camera

New York state government is trying to make streets safer with a recent announcement by Gov. Kathy Hochul of a $20.7 million investment in the SNUG anti-gun violence program. Ali George grew up, facing gun violence. “I had a brother that got killed," he said. "And then I had a brother that ended up getting incarcerated.”Today, he uses that trauma to act as a mediator on the streets of the Hudson Valley.