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WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Reinvent Albany Co-Founder and Executive Director John Kaehny.

On this episode of The Best of Our Knowledge...A series of winter nature walks is aimed at bringing upstate New York residents closer to native plants and animals.We’ll learn about the importance of ants in the agricultural economy.And Jody Cowan will speak with an artist who is drawing attention to the student debt crisis with a unique exhibit in western Massachusetts.

Lydia Millet’s previous novel, “A Children’s Bible,” was a National Book Award Finalist. Her follow-up is “Dinosaurs” is deadpan funny and yet deals with the important themes of extinction and climate change.

(Airs 02/16/23 @ 3 p.m. & 02/18/23 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with New York State Governor Kathy Hochul.

On this week's 51%, we speak with Katie Hood, CEO of the One Love Foundation, about the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships — and how to tell which one you’re in.

Andrea Barrett, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the author of the new book “Natural History: Stories” The collection connects the lives of the family of scientists, teachers and innovators that she has featured in her writing throughout her career.

(Airs 10/14 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: union supporters rally at an Amazon warehouse upstate in a bid to become the company’s second workplace in the country to unionize, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts about the status of the state attorney general’s investigation into former President Trump, and we’ll join Senator Gillibrand in Plattsburgh where she highlighted funding for home heating assistance this winter.

(Airs 10/13/22 @ 3 p.m. & 10/15/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Blair Horner, Executive Director of the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG).

(Airs 10/16/22 @ 6 p.m. & 10/17/22 @ 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 and current Substack columnist Rex Smith, Adjunct Professor at RPI and Investigative Journalist, Rosemary Armao, and Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and a Journalism Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rosemary, Rex and Barbara talk about how journalism is failing the electorate ahead of the midterm elections, whether journalists are biased toward the U.S. and its allies when reporting on war, and much more.

(Airs 10/20/22 @ 3 p.m. & 10/22/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks William Barclay, Republican Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly.