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(Airs 03/10/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Hochul’s proposal to increase the number of charter schools in the state is getting some pushback from members of the public education community, our political observer Alan Chartock speaks with Jesse McKinley of the New York Times, and Student advocates rally in Albany for free CUNY and SUNY tuition.

(Airs 03/03/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Convenience store owners say Governor Hochul’s plan to ban flavored cigarettes will lead to more tobacco products bought and sold on the black market, our political observer Alan Chartock speaks with New York state Senator James Skoufis, Chair of the Senate investigations committee, we’ll have a conversation with the Executive Director of the Adirondack Council who’s about to leave his post.

(Airs 03/05/23 @ 6 p.m. & 03/06/23 @ 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 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 talkabout whether the legal case against Fox news, whether reporters should put themselves in danger, and much more.

On this episode of The Best of Our Knowledge: researchers are using microbes to create tiny nanowires – technology that could be used to “sniff out” disease.

Scott Turow, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "Presumed Innocent" and "The Last Trial," returns with "Suspect" a riveting legal thriller in which a reckless private detective is embroiled in a fraught police scandal where the Police Chief is accused by three male police officers of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks.

Playlist as aired on March 4th, 2023:

It’s a half century since James Lovelock originated the Gaia Hypothesis – which says that our planet’s biosphere is a single intelligent entity that self-regulates conditions for the mutual benefit of all. Hear how physicists have been heading down this path for a long time and about the alternative: The universe was created from nothing.

Lunar eclipses appear best through binoculars or just the naked eye. The full moon is never a good telescope target, and hosting Earth’s blurry-edged shadow doesn't help much. It's not terrible, like macaroni salad, but Earth's shadow edge is fuzzy, and fuzzy is not a good thing through a telescope.

Jennifer Egan’s new novel, “The Candy House,” is a sibling novel to her Pulitzer-Prize and National Book Critics Circle-winning “A Visit from The Goon Squad.” It asks big questions about the totalizing and flattening effects of digital culture, privacy, and surveillance. It is a place where people can upload their actual memories, and let other people live in theirs.

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, with Thanksgiving around the corner we feature Linda comfort food: Willie Nile, Tinsley Ellis, and a special Liner Notes conversation with Stephane Wrembel.