Alan Chartock

We speak with Patricia Phagan, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings about Nature in America: Taming the Landscape.

We learn about the Powerhouse Apprentice Company from Tom Pacio, Emily Mendelsohn, Angela Dumlao (a Vassar student and Powerhouse directing apprentice), and Max Friedlich (a playwrighting apprentice).

We're joined by Johanna Pfaelzer, the Artistic Director of New York Stage and Film and Ed Cheetham, the Producing Director of Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College.

We begin our Powerhouse Theater broadcast from Vassar College by speaking with the Executive Editor of The Poughkeepsie Journal.

Host Alan Chartock is joined by Michael Long, longtime chair of the New York State Conservative Party. They discuss the party’s enrollment efforts, redistricting, Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, and how conservatives can compete with New York’s large number of registered Democrats.

Alan is joined by Rabbi Dennis Ross, Director of Concerned Clergy for Choice for The Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates of New York State, a multi-faith organization of religious leaders in support of reproductive rights.  Ross, who is associate rabbi at Congregation Beth Emeth in Albany, is the author of All Politics is Religious: Speaking Faith to the Media, Policy Makers and Community.

The longtime chair of the New York State Conservative Party says that while his wing of the Republican Party did not always back presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, it is now firmly behind the former Massachusetts Governor’s campaign. Michael Long spoke to WAMC’s Alan Chartock on this week’s Capitol Connection program.

Dodd-Frank banking regulations are as contentious as ever. In today’s Congressional Corner, New York Representative Nan Hayworth tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that she wants to see the Volcker Rule suspended.

President Obama’s executive order on immigration could be influential in the fall election. In today’s Congressional Corner, New York Representative Nan Hayworth tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that every presidential action is politically significant.