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Schools in the Capital Region are welcoming students back for the 2021–2022 school year, but not without difficulty. The Capital Region is suffering from a severe teacher shortage.

If you grew up in the early eighties, you probably learned a ton from those cartoon shorts from the series, Schoolhouse Rock. Disney Plus is bringing them back for a whole new generation of kids to learn from.

With most things closed because of the coronavirus, one of your only options is to spend time in nature and the perfect place for that is right here in Albany.

Sometimes the best places to visit are right in your hometown and don't cost any money to experience. Have you been to the Albany Pine Bush Preserve yet?

If you have always wanted your kids to learn how to kayak, there is a free program being offered through the state.

I know I can write in cursive but aside from signing my name and maybe on the sporadic check, I never use it. I never really thought it hurt to learn it but I guess there are schools in the Capital Region that don't teach it anymore and it's causing problems.

Where a school falls is judged by how good the teachers are. We have a lot of high school in the area. Did your Alma Mater make the list?

Every Sunday morning, we have a new show on WGNA called ‘Capital Region Sunday'.

We had a lot of different discussions on the show today that seemed to get people all in a tizzy to give their two cents. Man I love when that happens. One of them was the subject of taking the teaching of cursive writing out of schools. I must admit I found it interesting how many people just couldn't fathom the idea. Yet when asked, when is the last time you needed to use cursive handwriting mos

Yesterday, when my sixteen year old son came home from school, I asked him the ever annoying, and almost rhetorical question. "How was school today?"  After the obligatory, "fine."  I thought maybe a follow up question would be a nice touch.