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The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Political Consultant and lobbyist Libby Post, Executive Director of The Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York Nic Rangel, Wall Street Investment Banker – Mark Wittman, and Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan.

The new book “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past” by Steve Benen is an investigation of the Republican Party’s dangerous campaign to rewrite recent history in real time.

Early this summer, the Capital Region based Americana band Zan and the Winter Folk released their first full length album “New Morse Code.”Led by songwriter Zan Strumfeld on guitar and vocals, The Winter Folk are Michael Gregg (banjo), Will Brown (lead guitar), Sean Fortune (Upright Bass) and Brendan Tompkins (drums). In addition to the core group, “New Morse Code” features other artists from the greater-Troy music community - adding vocals and instrumentation for various of the personal, haunting, resilient songs.

On this week’s 51%, we speak with the cast and crew of an upcoming production of Heidi Schreck’s 2017 play, What the Constitution Means to Me, at Hubbard Hall in upstate New York. We also take a trip to Sheffield, Massachusetts, to learn about civil rights icon Elizabeth Freeman, who successfully sued for her freedom during the Revolutionary War. And we remember Dr. Alice Green, activist and founder of Albany’s Center for Law and Justice, who died in August at age 84.

Democrats are on the trail after the convention.In today’s Congressional Corner, New York Congressman Pat Ryan of the 18th district speaks with WAMC’s Ian Pickus. This interview was recorded August 28th.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany Robert Griffin Albany Law School professor and Director of the Justice Center Sarah Rogerson, and Former Times Union Associate Editor Mike Spain.

Dan Delurey joins us to answer your questions about climate change and emerging clean energy technologies. Dan is Senior Fellow for Energy & Climate at Vermont Law and Graduate School. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

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, partner with the Albany law firm of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, Cianna Freeman-Tolbert, and Publisher Emeritus of The Daily Freeman Ira Fusfeld.

Musician Johnny Irion joins us in Studio A to tell us about his new album, "Sleeping Soldiers of Love." It was produced at his home studio in the Berkshires. Rolling Stone says of the album: "Songs that feel as lovingly hand-crafted as the jeans on the back of Neil Young's After the Gold Rush." The record release show is at The Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Massachusetts on Saturday 8/31.