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On this week's The Best of Our Knowledge: A new poll shows that while Americans mostly see the value in a college degree, many don’t think colleges are doing a great job in educating students.

(Airs 09/24/23 @ 6 p.m. & 09/25/23 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, and WAMC News Director Ian Pickus. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Rosemary, and Ian talk about Rupert Murdoch stepping down from Fox, Donald Trump on Meet The Press, sports writing and how major college programs have their way with the media, and much more.

Steve Sarowitz, the founder of Paylocity, is a partner in the Wayfarer Foundation, whose mission is to "advance humankind spiritually toward a future peaceful world civilization." Sarowitz tells us about Abdu'l-Bahá, Baha'i Gardens, Haifa, and his running shoes.

(Airs 09/17/23 @ 6 p.m. & 09/18/23 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld, and WAMC News Director Ian Pickus. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Rosemary, Ira, and Ian talk about being truthful not neutral, Gannett looking for a Taylor Swift reporter, whether high school student reports can do for sports what AI can’t, and more.

(Airs 09/14/23 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina speaks with Katherine Nadeau from New York Renews, a coalition of over 360 organizations working to mitigate climate change.

This week on The Best of Our Knowledge: students are back on campus, and for first-year students, one of the most daunting tasks of settling into college life is moving everything into the dorm.

(Airs 09/15/23 @ 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 first African American chief judge, Rowan Wilson, was inducted into his post, a conversation about the state’s nation leading climate leadership and community protection act, and we’ll remember the 22nd anniversary of 9/11.

Playlist as aired on 9/16/23

On this week’s 51%, we speak with science journalist and Brave the Wild River author Melissa Sevigny about the two women who risked their lives to botanize the Grand Canyon in the 1930s.

On this week's 51%, we bring you an interview with lawyer Jane Spinak on her book The End of Family Court. Spinak makes the radical case that the U.S. family court system is too broken to fix, and that abolishing it might bring better justice to families and children.