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Tara Kitchen owner Aneesa Waheed reflects on journey, road ahead (opens the original)
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Moroccan restaurant Tara Kitchen began as a small stall at the Schenectady Greenmarket. Then, owner Aneesa Waheed and her husband decided to open a full-service eatery in the city in 2008. The venture eventually grew to six branches in the Capital Region, one in New York City, and one in Hyderabad in India. WAMC's Maryam Ahmad spoke to Waheed about the evolution of the business, and how she hopes to focus her time now on her family and advocacy for her fellow minority and women business owners.
New York State Museum marks 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 with new photography exhibit (opens the original)
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David Handschuh was sitting in traffic on Wall Street on Sept. 11, 2001, when he heard on the police scanner that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. He was a photojournalist for the New York Daily News, and was also teaching photography at New York University. “It was unreal. It was unbelievable. The idea that somebody could fly two planes into two different buildings," Handschuh recounted. "Of course, [I] had no idea about the Pentagon, no idea about Shanksville. All I knew is that it
Meezan Kitchen brings Palestinian culture to Capital Region (opens the original)
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After spending six years as a ghost kitchen and catering business run out of a garage, Meezan Kitchen is rolling out a big change. Owner and founder Layla Khafaga said the bakery will be built at the site of a former Stewart's in Niskayuna. "We’re going to be baking on site, everything from scratch — we’re a from-scratch bakery," she said. "We’re also going to have a small coffee and tea selection. I envision it to be about 10-12 seats. People could come in [and] we’re going to have outdoor seat
Man who led police on manhunt pleads guilty to killing girlfriend in Cohoes (opens the original)
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A man who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and led police on manhunt last year has pleaded guilty to murder in the second-degree. The Albany County district attorney’s office says Anthony Bechand pleaded guilty on Thursday in county court. Bechand will be sentenced in October to 20 years to life in prison. He pleaded guilty to killing Amanda Rodriguez in her Cohoes home on Sept. 14, 2025. Bechand fled the scene of the crime in a pickup truck and was found in the Franklin County town of Brighton on
Women detained by ICE in upstate NY more likely to be transferred multiple times (opens the original)
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Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has ramped up its deportation and detentions across the country, including in New York. While most people detained by ICE in the state were men, women detained by ICE are more likely to be transferred out of state, since there is no ICE detention facility for women in New York. Jahaira Roldan is the Capital Region manager of Organizing and Strategy with the New York Immigration Coalition. She says in the
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