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(Airs 09/24/21 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: the state’s unemployment insurance fund owes the federal government $9 billion, our political observer Alan Chartock on Governor Hochul stopping payment of legal bills for state employees who worked for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he faces ongoing investigations, and we’ll tell you what happened at the latest meeting of New York’s Climate Action Council.

On this week’s 51%, we celebrate women in dance. We speak with a student at Julliard and take some lessons from a professional ballroom dancer, and we also speak with choreographer Helen Pickett about her creative process.

(Airs 09/26/21 @ 6 p.m. & 09/27/21 @ 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, Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and a Journalism Professor at the University at Albany, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rex, Barbara and Ira talk about signs of increased diversity in top media positions, the Gabby Petito story, media bias and “White Woman Syndrome."

Earlier this year researchers found the farthest-ever galaxy, a Hubble smudge at a distance of 13 billion light years away. This week we’ll learn more about light travel, how the image is dimmer than we’d expect, and how 98% of the universe lies in a zone that can never be observed.

Playlist as aired on 9/25/21

Fiona Hill of the Brookings Institute began as a child dominoes hustler in a miners pub. “My granddad would have me play dominoes and bet on me, and every time I won, I would get a ginger beer.” This week on Person Place Thing - the making of a scholar.

Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll talk about how colleges are teaching degree programs in the supply chain.

(Airs 08/15/21 @ 6 p.m. & 08/16/21 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, and Judy Patrick, Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rosemary, Judy, and Ira talk about the media’s coverage of the three C’s: COVID, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and climate change.