New York Now

On this week's edition of New York NOW (6/09/2023): It was the last scheduled week of this year's legislative session at the State Capitol in Albany. We'll tell you what happened. Josh Solomon from the Times Union and Rebecca Lewis from City & State NY have more analysis and news from the week. New York has invested more than half a billion dollars into the Olympics Regional Development Authority over the last six years alone. NPR's Brian Mann reports on how that money's been spent, and how that's impacted the region. (Read that story here.) Poem Renovation challenges users to express themselves by creating a new poem, with parts of an old one. Now, one teacher in New York has brought the concept into the classroom. Producer Catherine Rafferty has that story. Explore More: nynow.org