WAMC's award-winning daily news magazine brings listeners the latest in local, national and world news. Join Jim Levulis each weekday for the latest. The weekend edition is hosted by Lucas Willard. The work of the WAMC News team is complemented each day with news and features from the BBC and Stardate. Midday Magazine also offers a comprehensive regional weather summary and a range of commentators who span the political spectrum. Highlights from the WAMC Listener Comment Line are usually aired on Friday's edition of Midday Magazine.
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Surrounded by the Hudson River, the Hudson-Athens lighthouse has stood for 150 years. And now, a new recognition is boosting the effort to ensure it stands for 150 more.
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A center devoted to financial literacy and helping locals and students at American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts is getting $1 million in federal funding.
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As allegations of sexual abuse continue to emerge from a private all-girls school in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, former students and staff members are speaking out about an unsafe campus environment where relationships between teachers and children were well-known and unchallenged.
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Another New York college has announced its closure, with just a few days’ notice. Wells College, in Aurora, says it will shutter its doors at the end of the semester, following years of financial challenges. As students look to find new schooling come fall, the college has tapped a Westchester County university as its preferred teach-out facility.
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NewsChannel 13 meteorologist Paul Caiano delivers the Midday Weather Summary for Wednesday, May 1, 2024.
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Poverty. It’s a political issue. It’s a social justice issue. And it’s an education issue. In fact, it’s the elephant in the room whenever we talk about education in America. And a mighty elephant it is, because poverty plays into every aspect of a child’s health, well-being and academic success.
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The FBI Albany Field Office recently gave students at the University at Albany the chance to complete a Physical Fitness Test for Special Agents.
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An application for American Rescue Plan Act funding is prompting an investigation by the Albany County District Attorney.
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Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean is thinking about running for the office again, more than 20 years after he left the post.
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History enthusiasts and Saratoga Springs residents will have a chance to visit historic homes this month.