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(Airs 01/12/23 @ 3 p.m. & 01/14/23 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with SUNY Chancellor John King about New York’s higher education system.

(Airs 01/15/23 @ 6 p.m. & 01/16/23 @ 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 Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at RPI and UAlbany, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rex, Rosemary and Ira talk about how to cover homelessness, whether journalist’s prey on people to get information, the Wall Street Journal reporter handcuffed by police, and much more.

Rightly proud of her field, she declares, “We’re the most trusted profession in the country for twenty-some odd years.” Police? Priests? Tech execs? Finance weasels? Yeah, right. Nurses! She’s the dean of the Columbia University School of Nursing.

She’s filmed a lot of musicians—Michael Tilson Thomas, the Metropolitan Opera—but her heart belongs to Doña Carlota Joaquina, princess of Portugal, the Shrew of Queluz: “Any woman who is known as a shrew I would probably like.” Produced with Ralph Farris and featuring music by Ethel.

On this episode on The Best of Our Knowledge…As COVID-19 restrictions ease, public school students are seeing the return of an exciting tradition – the school field trip. Jody Cowan will bring us more. The Peace Corps is sending its first deployment of volunteers around the world since the lockdown of 2020. Host Lucas Willard will speak with a recent graduate preparing for her two-year tour. And a storybook is helping young children affected by the war in Ukraine.

Each Sunday and Wednesday 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, we feature three performances spanning 13 years. Guitar aficionados Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters, Stephane Wrembel, and Michael-Louis Smith take the stage in an episode we have aptly dubbed “Guitar Hero.”

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On this episode of the Best of Our Knowledge… Elementary and middle school students compete in a district-wide spelling bee in Schenectady, New York. Online program Poem Renovation lets users explore poetry in a new way. And independent Hyper Saturation Magazine digs into the cultural landscape of upstate New York.

(Airs 02/10/23 @ 3 p.m. & 02/12/23 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

On this week’s 51%, we speak with editors Nan Bauer-Maglin and Daniel Hood about their new book "Gray Love: Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60."