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On this week’s 51%, we speak with mountain athlete and fertility doula Angie Marie to learn how some women are applying the concepts behind cycle syncing to their everyday lives.

(Airs 04/04/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with New York state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli about the budget negotiations, the lack of affordable housing, mental illness on the rise, village audits, and much more.

“City on Fire” by Don Winslow launched an ambitious crime fiction trilogy that has transported readers from the gritty streets of Providence to the glittering screens of Hollywood to the golden casinos of Las Vegas as Danny Ryan forges a dynasty. Winslow’s latest book is “City in Ruins.” It is also his last.

On the latest 51%, we continue our series on endometriosis, speaking with doctors, patients, advocates, and researchers about a disease that impacts roughly 1 in 10 women worldwide.

(Airs 05/02/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with New York state Republican Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay about the recently passed $237 billion state budget.

(Airs 05/03/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Hochul highlights changes in New York’s reading curriculum, Republican Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay shares his thoughts on what he considers too much spending in the state budget, and we’ll take you to the newly recognized 150 year old Hudson-Athens light house.

(Airs 05/03/24 @ 3 p.m. & 05/05/24 @ 6 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, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, WAMC News Director Ian Pickus, and Media Project Producer David Guistina. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, Ian and David talk about coverage of the campus protests and House Speaker Mike Johnson’s visit to Columbia University, when physical barriers get in the way of the news, and much more.

Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of “In the Time of the Butterflies” and “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents,” returns with “The Cemetery of Untold Stories” - a novel about storytelling that reminds us that the events of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end.

In the category of cool naked-eye sky events, you’ve got eclipses, comets, meteor showers, and the event happening right now – a bright conjunction. Tune in to hear about one of the best conjunctions of the year!

Periodical cicadas this spring are singing in enormous numbers across the United States. It’s reunion hundreds of years in the making.