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A new U.S. News & World Report has updated its annual ranking of the top colleges in the country. This year, some New York institutions made the top 10 in the country.

With the latest hit series "X-Men '97" streaming on Disney+, this is a good time to remind you that the X-Men have major connections with a couple counties in the Hudson Vlaley.

Bard College's pre-professional graduate orchestra, known as The Orchestra Now or TON, was featured prominently in Bradley Cooper's recent Netflix drama film.

This is not a newsflash. College is expensive. We spent the past twenty years saving for my son to go to college. Student loans have become a political platform. Colleges across America are charging some steep prices for one year of education. Let's see which New York Colleges and Universities are amongst the Top 50 most expensive in America.

Assists are coming to organizations across the country from the NBA Foundation. The foundation is a non-profit organization established and initially funded by all 30 NBA teams. According to their website, nbafoundation.nba.com, "the Foundation is focused on driving economic opportunity and empowerment in the Black community." This month the foundation dished out its fourth round of grants. This distribution included 38 grants totaling $11 million dollars. One of those grants ended up at a small college just down the Taconic Parkway from the Capital Region.

Chevy Chase has done it all in his career. Before all of that, however, Chase was a film student at Bard College, playing drums with the members of Steely Dan.