Jesse King
Hudson Valley Bureau Chief/Host, 51%Jesse King is the host of WAMC's national program on women's issues, "51%" and the station's bureau chief in the Hudson Valley. She has also produced episodes of the WAMC podcast "A New York Minute In History."
A graduate of SUNY Oneonta, King first joined the WAMC newsroom as an intern in September 2018. She grew up an avid writer and radio-nerd in Apalachin, New York, and spent much of her college years managing WONY 90.9 FM, contributing to the student-run podcast, "Oneonta Voices," and interning with Phoenix FM in Dublin, Ireland. She holds a B.A. in Music Industry and Mass Communications, and plays the fiddle in her free time.
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Rockland County residents grilled New York Congressman Mike Lawler on everything from rumored Medicaid cuts to deportations at a Sunday town hall. Here's how the Republican answered. -
Republican New York Congressman Mike Lawler was met with shouts, boos, and jeers from constituents at a combative town hall in Rockland County Sunday. -
Three Democrats are running in a heated primary for town supervisor in Woodstock, New York. -
On this week's 51%, we chat with Minnesota Law Professor Jill Hasday about her book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality. -
Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins used his first State of the County address Wednesday to announce a new partnership with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute -
Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus touted the county’s finances, emergency preparedness and land conservation efforts in his annual State of the County address Wednesday. -
Ulster County officials are discussing how to boost security at the county office building in Kingston after a local school board trustee posted a bathroom selfie holding a knife after a county meeting. -
A food bank in New York's Hudson Valley says it is worried about stocking shelves after funding cuts at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. -
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano is proposing a $1.49 billion budget for 2026. But with the New York state budget weeks overdue and threats of cuts to federal aid, he says a lot is still up in the air. -
The House has passed the SAVE Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship from anyone registering to vote in federal elections. What might this mean for married women and other voters with changed names or hard-to-reach documents? We discuss the bill (and where it goes from here) with Dr. Elizabeth Matto, director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.
