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The Roundtable
Weekdays, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

WAMC's The Roundtable is an award-winning, nationally recognized eclectic talk program. The show airs from 9 a.m. to noon each weekday and features news, interviews, in-depth discussion, music, theatre, and more!

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  • The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are The Ulster County Comptroller and the former president and CEO of the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley March Gallagher, a grants analyst based in Albany Emily Honen, and Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Robert Pondiscio.This is an abbreviated panel that is taking place during WAMC's February Fund Drive.
  • The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois, Semi-retired, Editor at large/columnist/editorial writer, Times Union Jay Jochnowitz, and newly former Mayor of the City of Albany Kathy Sheehan.This is an abbreviated panel that is taking place during WAMC's February Fund Drive.
  • The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Executive Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bard College and Director for the Center for Civic Engagement &Professor of Political Studies Jonathan Becker, Senior Fellow, Bard Center for Civic Engagement Jim Ketterer, and Political Consultant Libby Post.This is an abbreviated panel that is taking place during WAMC's February Fund Drive.
  • Each weekday morning, The Roundtable's Joe Donahue is joined by various experts, journalists, educators, and commentators to discuss current events. On Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review, we feature your favorite panelists discussing news items from the previous week.
  • Erin Harkes, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Metroland Now, joins us this morning for a new regular arts segment where she will talk about what’s in the pages of Metroland Now and preview each month’s events for First Friday in Albany.
  • Academy Award winning actress Melissa Leo joins us to discuss her upcoming Woodstock Film Festival event on February 7th at the Orpheum Theatre at 4 pm - a special in-person Q&A following a screening of “The Knife” - a tense, timely drama about truth, power, and a family pushed to the brink.
  • The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois, Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College Robert Brigham, CEO of The Business Council of New York State Heather Mulligan, and Professor of Government at Dutchess Community College President of the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley Karin Riedl.
  • Kingston-based singer-songwriter Al Olender is releasing her sophomore full-length album “The Worrier” on February 13. It follows 2022’s “Easy Crier.” Al will mark the release of “The Worrier” with her fourth annual “Alentine’s Day” event at The Old Dutch Church in Kingston, New York on February 13.
  • The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Chief of Staff and Vice President for Strategy and Policy at Bard College Malia DuMont, Senior Fellow for Health Policy at The Empire Center for Public Policy Bill Hammond, and Associate Professor of Music at Vassar College Justin Patch.
  • The New York State Writer’s Institute’s spring season gets underway tomorrow and will stage events through early May, featuring major contemporary fiction writers and authors of No. 1 national best-selling novels, memoirists and historians, eminent journalists, fantasy writers, poets, podcasters, presidential candidates, and much more.