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(Airs 05/18/23 @ 3 p.m. & 05/20/23 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speakswith Republican Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus.

On this week's 51%, we speak with Dr. Brooke Ellison, associate professor of health policy and medical ethics at Stony Brook University. After a car accident left her paralyzed from the neck down at just 11 years old, Ellison became the first quadriplegic to graduate from Harvard University, with degrees in cognitive neuroscience and public policy. In her latest memoir, "Look Both Ways," Ellison reflects on how her understanding of her disability has matured – and how we can all thrive as a result of our experiences.

His Broadway debut, in "M. Butterfly," won every award going except the Nobel Prize in Mathematics. Fair enough: there is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics. He renewed everyone’s admiration with "Law & Order: SVU," and that’s not the half of it, or even the quarter, but why be precise? It’s not like there’s a Nobel at stake. Produced with Materials for the Arts.

On the latest 51%, we recognize Mother's Day and speak with author and psychotherapist Emma Nadler about her new memoir, The Unlikely Village of Eden, on her experience as a parent of a child with a disability.

On this episode of the Best of Our Knowledge: a new lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute seeks to accommodate students with different styles of learning; an online school based in the Bronx is graduating hip hop lyricists; and the Vermont State University system is reversing a plan to remove books from shelves and create digital libraries.

(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.