Lucas Willard
Assistant News Director, Host/Producer, The Best of Our Knowledge and WAMC Listening Party/ReporterLucas Willard graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in Communications. He also attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in 2010, where he studied audio and multimedia storytelling.
Prior to joining WAMC in 2011, Lucas worked with the Sound and Story Project of the Hudson Valley, the Big Shed Audio Documentary Podcast, the Albany Broadcasting Company, WDVL & WCVF-FM Fredonia, and WSUC-FM Cortland.
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Tonko seeks a change at the federal level that would even the playing field. In 2021, the House, then controlled by Democrats, passed a voting law that languished in the Senate that would require states to utilize independent redistricting bodies to draw Congressional maps. -
Daniel Morton-Bentley, General Counsel and Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs for the New York State Education Department, speaks with WAMC's Lucas Willard. -
As Republicans fear losing their narrow House majority in the upcoming midterms, GOP leaders in some states are discussing redrawing Congressional district boundaries to give their party an advantage in 2026. -
Playlist for Saturday, July 26th, 2026 -
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education and research.Researchers have revealed how an otherwise ordinary moth in Australia uses the stars to make an annual voyage.And a coalition of teachers’ unions is suing the Trump administration over billions of dollars in frozen education aid. -
It was three days before Christmas 2008, while most listeners were still asleep, that Ian Pickus showed up to work on Morning Edition at WAMC for the first time. Now, 17 years later, including the last dozen as News Director, Ian is leaving WAMC this week. -
New York State United Teachers this week signed onto a lawsuit seeking to force the U.S. Department of Education and the White House Office of Management and Budget to release $6 billion in education funding previously allocated by Congress for the upcoming school year. -
Playlist for Saturday, July 19th, 2025
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The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education and research.On this episode, we’ll speak with investigative journalist Mariah Blake.Blake’s new book “They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals” chronicles the decade-long fight for clean drinking water in the small community of Hoosick Falls, New York. -
A town hall was held Sunday in Plattsburgh with Congressional Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or AOC, of New York’s 14th district, and Paul Tonko of the 20th District.
