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On this week’s 51%, we discuss the growing burnout among healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic, and why some are leaving the profession. We also visit a new vacation spot for families and children battling serious illness, and speak with the new chief of surgery at Albany Medical Center.

(Airs 09/17/21 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: In response to strict new abortion laws in Texas, Governor Hochul says she’ll make New York a safe legal haven for women’s reproductive health, our political observer Alan Chartock on a new Siena Poll that measures the new Governor’s popularity, and state and local lawmakers in northern New York ask the Governor to push the White House to open the U.S - Canadian border.

(Airs 09/19/21 @ 6 p.m. & 09/20/21 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Former Times Union Editor Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, and Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette, and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rosemary, Rex, and Judy talk about whether the federal government should subsidize local media, whether newsrooms should go out of their way to hire reporters with political diversity, and much more.

Tune in to hear about the approaching fall sky and the behavior of the Harvest moon that sets it apart.

Each Wednesday and Sunday evening at 8 p.m. “Live At The Linda” brings you some of the best musical acts to grace the stage at The Linda - WAMC's Performing Arts Studio. This week features LILY and Stella and the Reptilians from earlier this year, and Bad Bad Hats from 2019.

Pushcart Prizewinning poet Maggie Smith gained star status with her breakout bestseller “Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity and Change.” Now with “Goldenrod,” Smith returns to her original craft with a powerful collection of poems that explore parenthood, solitude, love, and memory.

This week, when you first take a look at it, the issue of measuring student learning appears to be an educational problem: what and how much do students actually learn? But when you investigate the educational accountability movement, especially here in the U.S., you realize that the preoccupation with measuring student learning is a problem that goes much deeper.

For the 30th year, the Princeton Review has again listed what they feel are the best colleges in the country, and this year added a new batch of lists. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll hear how this new college guide was put together.

This flutist and composer was born in Chicago, where her grandparents arrived during the Great Migration. “It wasn’t perfect, but it was definitely an upgrade from Mississippi.” A musician reflects on her hometown and one of its sons.

(Airs 09/16/21 @ 3 p.m. & 09/18/21 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Westchester County Executive George Latimer.