In 2024, New York passed the Local Journalism Sustainability Act. The new law is the latest in a series of efforts by lawmakers across the country to save a dwindling number of local news outlets nationwide.

Lawmakers in multiple states are considering policies designed to protect local newspapers such as a tax credits or giving media outlets access to public funds.

Over the past 15 years, large investment firms and private equity groups have been buying up a significant number of single-family homes. A new bill called the ‘End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act,' aims to force Wall Street firms to sell their single-family homes within a decade and prevent them from future ownership.

Co-Host Jared Marcelle speaks to an economist and the Private Equity Stakeholders Project about the significant increase in large investment firms and private equity groups buying up single-family homes, apartments, and condos to turn them into rentals.

The worldwide non-alcoholic beer market is expected to reach $23 billion by 2025 and research shows American consumers deserve some credit for the growth. Co-Host Noah Jones speaks to Will Fisher, co-founder of Kit NA, a non-alcoholic beer company in Portland, Maine, about the boom in NA beer.

A federal appeals court will decide the fate of a new law in Texas that allows state police to arrest migrants suspected of entering the U.S. illegally. Co-host Jared Marcelle talks with Kristin Etter, director of Policy and Law at the Texas Immigration Law Council, about what makes the bill controversial.

New York has only around 90 legal cannabis shops while an estimated 2,000 stores are believed to be selling marijuana illegally. Eli Northrop, director of the Bronx Cannabis Hub, helps explain why the state's legalization rollout has been complicated from the start.

The American Cancer Society reported colon cancer diagnoses have doubled among patients under age 55 in the last 30 years. What are the disease's common symptoms and do researchers know what is causing the spike?

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide on access to a key drug used in a majority of medication abortions nationwide. This will be the first case on the issue since the court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

More than 100,000 migrants entered New York City in 2023. The surge in housing demand forced officials to cap the number of days people can access shelter in the city, but New York is not alone in having to adjust to this crisis.