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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, Peabody and Emmy Award winning journalist Linda Ellerbee, Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany Robert Griffin, and Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick.

On this first day of winter, we talk weather with News 10 meteorologist Jill Szwed. Call with your question. 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.

The Lake George Music Festival celebrated their 10th Anniversary this year at a new home and they are now gearing up for a beautiful 11th season. After years of concerts in local churches, outdoor parks and community centers, the Festival moved to the historic Carriage House at the Fort William Henry Hotel. This morning we welcome the festival's founder, Alexander Lombard, to give us an update on the year in review, ongoing renovations to the new home and a preview of the coming season.

Bestselling authors and brothers Lee and Andrew Child have crafted a new Jack Reacher thriller: "Better Off Dead." It is filled with all the trademark suspense and breakneck pacing (and body count, of course!) that have become the series’ hallmarks.

President Biden says his administration is taking COVID seriously this winter. In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern, a Democrat from the second district, speaks with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

Build Back Better might have to wait a little longer.In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern, a Democrat from the second district, continues his conversation with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

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, Lecturer and Adjunct Professor in Communications for SUNY New Paltz and RPI Terry Gipson, and Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web, and Cognitive Sciences at RPI and Director of the RPI-IBM Artificial Intelligence research collaboration Jim Hendler.

In "Tax the Rich!" (The New Press) Morris Pearl, the millionaire chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, and Erica Payne, the organization’s founder, take readers on an insider’s tour of the nation’s tax code and show how the rich (and the politicians they control) structured the tax code to make themselves even richer. They explain how to un-rig the economy through the tax code to reverse America’s ever-growing and dangerously destabilizing concentration of wealth and power. Morris Pearl joins us.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, investigative journalist and UAlbany Adjunct Professor Rosemary Armao, Immigration attorney and partner with the Albany law firm of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna Cianna Freeman-Tolbert, and Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany Robert Griffin.

Will America be built back better before the new year?In today’s Congressional Corner, Vermont Congressman Peter Welch continues his conversation with WAMC’s Alan Chartock. This conversation was recorded December 6th.