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(Airs 07/23/23 @ 6 p.m. & 07/24/23 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor and current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at RPI and UAlbany, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Judy, Rosemary, Barbara and Rex talk about whether journalists should pay their sources, minimizing harm in reporting, and much more.

The harvest season is here. We’ll learn about homesteading from planning to canning. New research suggests an old cancer treatment is effective in fighting tick-borne illness. And education officials in New York announce funding for mental health.

(Airs 08/20/23 @ 6 p.m. & 08/21/23 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with 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, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at University at Albany, and Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of The Saratogian and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Judy, Rosemary, Barbara and Rex talk about coverage of the tragic fire on Maui, a local newspaper in Kansas that was raided by police, Fox news coverage or non-coverage of the Trump indictments, and more.

(Airs 08/18/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: the state health commissioner with guidance on how to deal with new COVID-19 strains emerging this summer, a conversation with Blair Horner, Executive Director of NYPIRG, on young people, civics education and voting, and we’ll report on the U.S. trade representative’s visit to the Capital Region.

The esteemed pianist Wu Han offers not only beauty but insight, like this observation: “If you go to any concert and you hear a Dvořák piece, look for the pigeon and the train; it’s always in there.” Pigeons and trains, presented with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

The high sun’s weather effects still linger. Winter's typical sheets of stratus clouds and overcast lie months in our future, while puffy. Convective cumulus clouds caused by rising pockets of warm air, are still the norm. And we still experience the fact that air's capacity to hold moisture is 10 times greater now than it is in early spring and fall. So, unlike the dry air we typically get in mid-September, late August can still bring muggy conditions.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, August 19th, 2023

(Airs 9/7/23 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina speaks with New York state Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes about the influx of migrants upstate, climate change, bail reform, cannabis, and much more.

On this week’s 51%, we recognize International Overdose Awareness Day, and hear from women who have battled drug addiction and walked the complicated road to recovery.

"The House in the Pines" is a new psychological thriller from Ana Reyes. We follow Maya, a young woman who only has hazy memories about the most traumatic moment in her life – witnessing the mysterious death of her best friend – and feels the desperation to hide from and eventually fight for long-buried answers. This episode was recorded live at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on May 13, 2023.