Troy loses a mayoral candidate but might be gaining some civilian police oversight. And Massachusetts Congressman Richard Neal discusses trade talks in Mexico.
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#1629: Terry Tempest Williams “Erosion: Essays of Undoing”
Terry Tempest Williams is renowned for her singular body of literature on the environment and our experiences of home. Her new book “Erosion: Essays of Undoing,” explores this connection, particularly to her home state of Utah, as an evolutionary process and how our undoing of the self, self-centeredness, extractive capitalism, fear, tribalism can also be […]
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WAMC News Podcast – Episode 45
A former New York Congressman will teach at his alma mater, but isn’t ruling out a return to politics. And New York holds off on banning menthol e-cigarettes.
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Peruvian Roadtrip | Matt Plummer
Matt Plummer graduated college in 2013 with a bachelors in history and the looming question of what’s next? Post college, the 23 year old started landscaping on Martha’s Vineyard when the realization came to him, he had never traveled outside of the U.S. Plummer decided it was time to go. Giving himself one month to […]
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#1479: Jamal Koshoggi’s Death; Right Wing Media Machine And The Impeachment Inquiry
The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Times Union Editor Rex Smith, Former Editor and Investigative Journalist, Rosemary Armao and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project Alan, Rex, Rosemary and Ira talk about the optimism and pessimism a year from journalist Jamal Koshoggi’s death, the fully […]
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#1940: Newly Proposed PFOA Limits In Water, Governor Cuomo, And Fiscal Stress
The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Advocates for clean drinking water say new proposed limits for PFOA and other chemicals are too high; our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on his conversation with Governor Cuomo this week; and the state comptroller says twenty-five […]
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