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What Medicaid Cuts Mean to One Rural Hospital Now that the “One Big Beautiful Bill” has passed, citizens are grappling with how they will keep the only hospital in their county open.

Federal spending cuts promise to enlarge health care deserts and topple rural hospitals already under-reimbursed by Medicaid. For residents in Greene and Columbia counties, Columbia Memorial in the city of Hudson is all they’ve got.

#medicaid
#medicare

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29.09.2025 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can the public take over Central Hudson? An ambitious plan to acquire the embattled utility company faces long odds in Albany, but it has vocal support in the Hudson Valley.

In April, 50,019 Central Hudson customers had bills in arrears more than 60 days. Another 16, 252 were mailed the red-lettered disconnect notice.

Investor-owned vs Publicly-owned power in the Hudson Valley.

#Hudsonvalley
#HVPA
#centralhudson

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29.09.2025 16:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Home care patients, workers fear ‘major disruption’ on April 1 A fast-approaching deadline to transition the state’s main home care program has many...

Mar. 11, 2025

With 16 days left and at least 165, 000 chronically-ill or physically disabled NY residents still unaccounted for, voices are few outside the governor's orbit who predict anything but a debacle in the offing.

#CDPAP
#PPL
#Hudsonvalley

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29.09.2025 16:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How one city allowed millions of gallons of landfill leachate into its water Gaps in environmental regulations allow millions of gallons of leachate to be emptied...

Annually, millions of gallons of toxic landfill water (leachate) ends up ($$$) in municipal wastewater treatment plants along the Hudson. Improperly remediated, the diluted syrup is then dumped into the river.
Drink up.

#Kingston
#leachate
#Hudsonvalley

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29.09.2025 16:09 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Families stuck for years in Hudson Valley motels, ‘just trying to survive’ One family’s story illustrates how some families are spending years in temporary housing, caught between rising rents and aid programs that cut off too soon.

“My 3-year-old has only ever known a motel."

What it means to live for years in temporary emergency housing.

#Hudsonvalley
#housing

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29.09.2025 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0