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(Airs 05/14/23 @ 6 p.m. & 05/15/23 @ 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, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at RPI and UAlbany. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Judy, Rex and Rosemary discuss the town hall with Donald Trump and whether CNN should have hosted it, some of this year’s Pulitzer prize-winners, and much more.

On this episode of the Best of Our Knowledge: a new study shows only 51 percent of college students complete their studies, plus drone soccer, and a look at Eastern U.S. forests.

Sreoshy Banerjea is executive director of New York City’s Pubic Design Commission, which oversees art on city property, including consideration of its removal. Banerjea joins us to share highlights of her career and of course her person, place and thing of choice.

(Airs 05/19/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: County leaders across the state sound the alarm over what they call a growing migrant crisis, our political observer Alan Chartock speaks with Republican County Executive Steve Neuhaus about the migrant situation in Orange County, and the verdict is in, in the 2018 Schoharie limo tragedy trial – we’ll speak with Kevin Cushing, who lost his son Patrick in the crash.

On this week’s 51%: the month of June is National Gun Violence Awareness month. We hear from Jaclyn Schildkraut, executive director of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, about how the country’s epidemic is impacting children and schools.

(Airs 06/01/23 @ 3 p.m. & 06/03/23 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina speaks with Sarah Rogerson, Albany Law Professor and faculty Director of the Immigration Law Clinic.

Ann Napolitano took the literary world by storm with her tear-jerker of a novel “Dear Edward.” Her latest, “Hello Beautiful,” is an homage to Louisa May Alcott’s classic, “Little Women.” “Hello Beautiful” is a portrait of what is possible when we choose to love someone not in spite of who they are, but because of it.

Human rights lawyer and professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, Terry McGovern, tells us how she was reluctant to embrace her Irish heritage, Katrina Haslip and about a place in Howth, Ireland.

(Airs 06/02/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Supporters of a bill that would legally give terminally ill people the option to end their lives make a last-minute pitch to lawmakers, Sarah Rogerson, Albany Law Professor and Director of the Immigration Law Clinic on migrants being sent upstate from New York City, and we’ll take you to the sentencing of Nauman Hussain, the operator of the limo company involved in the 2018 Schoharie crash that killed 20 people.

On this episode of the Best of Our Knowledge: a New York education policy is requiring school districts to remove Native American names, mascots, and imagery