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(Airs 12/29/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: we’ll talk about affordable housing, one of the top issues in the coming 2024 legislative session, we’ll take a look back at NYS government and politics in 2023, and ahead of the new year, nonprofits who help the hungry across the state are asking Governor Kathy Hochul to start planning for the summer.

(Airs 01/05/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: there’s some lingering disappointment over the Governor’s vetoes of a number of bills in the waning days of 2023, two state lawmakers want to create of a commission to finding out why people leave New York, and the city of Poughkeepsie makes history swearing in a new mayor.

President and CEO of American Jewish World Service Robert Bank esteems the International Declaration of Human Rights as a blueprint for humane, egalitarian, democratic societies, and for this: “Article 24 is the right to a vacation. There are some amazing things in here.”

This will be a great year in the night sky, one of the best of our lives. So get ready to scrawl some stuff on your calendar. Tune in to hear what and when you can catch the biggest sky events of the year, including a very close conjunction between two of our favorite planets.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, January 6th, 2024.

On the latest 51%, we mark the would-be anniversary of Roe v. Wade by speaking with Dr. Felicia Kornbluh, historian and author of A Woman’s Life is a Human Life.

Universities across New York state studying AI are banding together to unlock the potential of the technology to benefit public good. We’ll speak with a researcher who has been working to develop classroom curricula surrounding the rapidly advancing technology.

The winner of the Booker Prize 2023, “Prophet Song” by Paul Lynch, presents a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.

(Airs 01/25/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with New York Republican Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay about his recent trip to China, the governor’s budget proposal, use of the rainy-day fund for migrants, education, climate change, public safety, and much more.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, January 20th, 2024