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May is Older Americans Month. Our guest today is Greg Olsen, Acting Director of the New York State Office for the Aging. We'll discuss a range of issues affecting older adults, including social isolation and resources available to help older adults address them. The number to call at show time is 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.

In today’s Congressional Corner, New York Congressman Paul Tonko, a Democrat from the 20th district, wraps up 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, investigative journalist and adjunct professor at UAlbany and RPI Rosemary Armao, Publisher Emeritus of The Daily Freeman Ira Fusfeld, and Diplomat in residence at Bard College Frederic Hof.

Michio Kaku is the co-founder of String Field Theory and is the author of international best-selling books such as "Hyperspace," "Visions," and "Beyond Einstein." He is the the Henry Semat Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York and he joins us to talk about his latest book "Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything."

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Bennington College faculty member, former EPA Regional Administrator, and President of Beyond Plastics Judith Enck, immigration attorney and Partner with the Albany law firm of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, Cianna Freeman-Tolbert, and Chairman of Capital District Latinos Dan Irizarry.

Democrats say the House Republicans’ budget bill is bad news for Americans.In today’s Congressional Corner, New York Congressman Paul Tonko, a Democrat from the 20th 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, corporate attorney with Phillips Lytle LLP Rich Honen, Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick, and Wall Street Investment Banker Mark Wittman.

Jagged Little Pill is the new musical based on Alanis Morissette’s world-changing music and the show now on stage at Proctors in Schenectady, New York through Sunday. The New York Times says of the musical: “Redemptive, rousing and real, 'Jagged Little Pill' stands alongside the original musicals that have sustained the best hopes of Broadway.”Allison Sheppard plays Bella and is making her National Tour debut! She is a proud AMDA alumni.

The final concert of Albany Pro Musica’s current season explores Music for Peace in a Time of War on Sunday, May 7th, at 3 p.m. at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. Albany Pro Musica's Opalka Family Artistic Director, José Daniel Flores-Caraballo joins us this morning."Music for Peace in a Time of War": The final concert will music by Ralph Vaughn Williams and Franz Joseph Haydn. Guest baritone Philip Lima will return to share the stage with the Albany Pro Musica Concert Chorus, Masterworks Chorale.

Banda Magda will return to Saratoga Springs, New York when they play the Spa Little Theater at SPAC on Thursday, May 4 at 8 p.m.The group tours the world sharing their global sounds that range from samba to French chanson, from Greek folk tunes to Colombian cumbia and Afro-Peruvian lando. Their songs capture the best of mid-century pop ballads and cinematic arranging, drawing on the band’s global background and unchained musicality. Their third album “Tigre” was released in 2020.Banda Magda is founded and fronted by composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Magda Giannikou.