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(Airs 02/04/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Lawsuits were immediately filed after Governor Hochul signed off on new district maps, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the gerrymander, and we’ll get reaction to a new survey that shows a positive outlook for economic growth in the North Country.

On this week’s 51%, we’re talking women in sports. Professor Amy Bass of Manhattanville College shares her thoughts on the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. We speak with two-time Olympian Tricia Mangan as she heads to the slopes, and Ithaca College Professor Ellen Staurowsky discusses the upcoming 50th anniversary of Title IX.

David Amram is a composer, arranger, and conductor of orchestral, chamber, and choral works, many with jazz flavorings. In his 91 years (admittedly, some spent a baby), he’s worked with Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes. He scored The Manchurian Candidate, was composer in residence for the New York Philharmonic, and made an omelet for Charlie Parker.

When Betsy Ross designed that flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes, everyone at the time knew there was a lot more land out there and there would likely be additions coming. However, at the time, there was already a functioning 14th colony on the Gulf Coast and it had changed hands between Spain and Great Britain a few times…with France in there around the edges. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we open up our own history class and take another look at West Florida, the forgotten 14th colony.We’ll also spend an Academic Minute with some transgender history.

(02/10/22 @ 3 p.m. & 02/12/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Paul Wolf, President of the New York Coalition for Open Government.

On this week’s 51% — why is the beginning of the year such a big time for divorce? We speak with attorney Lauren Hunt to learn more about the divorce process and dispel some of the myths. We also speak with Sarah Armstrong, author of The Mom’s Guide to a Good Divorce, on how to keep kids at the forefront during the change.

A Pennsylvania Groundhog ignores crowds of humans closely gathered around him, and then, despite having a four ounce brain, gets involved with meteorology. If he sees his shadow, this produces so much anxiety that weather systems throughout North America somehow get altered, and we have six more weeks of winter. And it all this revolves around the perceptions of a single Woodchuck, who serves as the country’s spokesrodent. Believe it or not, this does connect with the sky.

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are partners in work and life. The architects began working together in 1977. Their studio focuses on work for institutions including museums, schools, and nonprofit organizations.

With extending the child tax credit still a big topic on the news, a report from an ongoing clinical trial suggests that children of mothers who get regular cash assistance have enhanced brain development…and the more cash the better. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll hear from one of the study’s authors.

This week marks the start of the 10-week period when we get the year's fastest daily sunlight gain and the fastest growth in the Sun’s strength. We’ve now entered the year’s fastest growing increase in the sun’s intensity, and every creature can feel it. So while the first day of spring will not come for another five weeks, on March 20th, the current explosive growth in both the length of each day and in the strength of the midday Sun makes such official milestones mere formalities.