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The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, immigration attorney and Partner with the Albany law firm of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, Cianna Freeman-Tolbert, political consultant and lobbyist Libby Post, and Albany Law School professor and Director of the Immigration Law Clinic Sarah Rogerson.

It's real estate today on Vox Pop. Renata Lewis and Alex Monticello join us to answer questions about buying or selling your property. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond.Today's panelists are WAMC's Alan Chartock, Siena College Professor of Comparative Politics Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Publisher Emeritus of The Daily Freeman Ira Fusfeld, and Chairman of Capital District Latinos Dan Irizarry.

Presidential Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco has become the first visiting artist at the SPAC School of the Arts (SOTA) -- a multidisciplinary school dedicated to dance, music, and theatre, with additional offerings in literary arts, visual arts, and media arts – in addition to serving as a mentor for the 2022 Adirondack Trust Company Festival of Young Artists.

The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today.

The Vassar Haiti Project has sent a team of doctors to the earthquake area in the south of Haiti. Dr. Gueslin Jossainvil is on the scene and will join us this morning. 4 doctors, 4 nurses, and a psychologist were in an area near the earthquake’s epicenter. They saw 80-100 patients a day and administering medications as needed. We get an on the ground report this morning.Co-Founder & Executive Director Lila Meade of The Vassar Haiti Project and Dr. Gueslin Jossainvil join us this morning.

The book "Struggling in the Land of Plenty" analyzes the appalling conditions under which homeless women and children live, the violence endemic to their lives, the role of the welfare state in perpetrating poverty, and their never-ending struggle for survival. Based on a four-year ethnographic study, Anne R. Roschelle examines how socially structured race, class, and gender inequality contributed to the rise in family homelessness and the devastating consequences for parents and their children.

Today's Book Picks come from Matt Tannenbaum from The Bookstore in Lenox, Massachusetts.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Former EPA Regional Administrator, Visiting Professor at Bennington College, and President of Beyond Plastics Judith Enck, Albany Law School professor and Director of the Immigration Law Clinic Sarah Rogerson, and Albany County District Attorney David Soares.