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With a month until Election Day, voters are gearing up to make their decisions in local, state, and national elections across the country. With the disputed outcome of 2020 continuing to hang over this election, the people running the voting are under unprecedented and often unfounded scrutiny. WAMC spoke with New York State Board of Elections Public Information Director Kathleen McGrath about what voters should know ahead of the election and how her office is handling growing public doubt.

Young voters have historically had some of the lowest voter registration and participation rates compared to other age groups.

The union is demanding that Cornell bargain with them over the suspension of a graduate student who participated in a pro-Palestinian protest that shut down a career fair.

Former Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi was grilled by Republican senators in his hearing to be a federal judge. Brindisi was nominated to serve on the United States District Court by President Biden.

Donald Spaccio, a justice of both the Montour Falls Village Court and Montour Town Court, was under investigation with the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct since last spring, according to a press release.

This week on the Disabilities Beat, we feature a local organization supporting people with spina bifida throughout their lifespan - including with resources the healthcare system does not always provide.

Cash secured in the state budget is headed to Upstate cities to get vacant rental units back online, but questions remain over how to keep them affordable.

A Capital Region state lawmaker is calling for more recognition for veterans by the state.

On Monday, September 30, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown announced his plan to resign in the next few weeks.

The soldiers and aircraft are based at an Army Aviation Support Facility in Rochester. They are being sent to support the North Carolina National Guard.