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WAMC News Podcast – Episode 197
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has set a vote today to remove Congresswoman Liz Cheney from her leadership post and make New York’s Elise Stefanik the No. 3 Republican. For more on Stefanik’s rise, WAMC’s Ian Pickus spoke with Jacqueline Alemany of The...
#1712 Alison Bechdel “The Secret To Superhuman Strength” | The Book Show
This week, comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel is back with a new graphic novel. Once again she has reinvented memoir, as she did with “Fun Home”, this time by telling her life story decade by decade through the lens of her lifelong obsession with...
WAMC News Podcast – Episode 196
An annual milestone at the Albany Pine Push Preserve is set for Saturday. Lupine Fest — a hybrid of in-person and virtual events this year due to the pandemic — runs through June 5. The springtime ritual aligns with the blooming of stunning lupine flowers, the food...
#1562: Truth Among Misinformation & Former President Trump’s Facebook Ban | The Media Project
The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock; Times Union Editor-at-Large Rex Smith; Judy Patrick, Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association; and Daily...
#2119: NY Lawmakers Mandate Minimum Staffing For Nursing Homes, Hospitals | The Legislative Gazette
This week on The Gazette, the New York State legislature on Tuesday approved measures that would require hospitals and nursing homes meet minimum staffing levels of nurses and other health care workers. Our political observer Dr. Alan Chartock discusses his interview...
#1598: The Path To Free College | The Best Of Our Knowledge
College is expensive. Really expensive. I suspect you did not need me to tell you this. And it is a problem as more jobs are demanding a college degree. So what if college was free? There’s a growing movement in the U.S. that thinks it should be. That’s what Michelle...