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Playlist as aired on Saturday, October 26th, 2024

(Airs 10/31/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Yancey Roy, Albany Bureau Chief for Newsday, about the major races in next week’s elections, Proposition 1 on the ballot, and much more.

Election season is here and tensions are high. On this week’s 51%, we learn about a nonprofit working to heal America’s political divide and foster healthier dialogues between citizens. Gabriella Timmis of Braver Angels teaches us how to build trust and, in some cases, find common ground with people we disagree with. Our associate producer, Madeleine Reynolds, also speaks with etiquette expert Elaine Swann about how to confront rude people and “let crazy be crazy.”

For more than a decade, glass artists at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in southern Vermont have been challenged and inspired by the creativity of children. We’ll speak with an artist who is bringing drawings to life.We’ll meet students in upstate New York who are celebrating the turning point of the American Revolution.And we’ll catch up with an apple researcher in Western Massachusetts.

(Airs 11/21/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Democratic New York State Senator Liz Krueger about the recent election results, congestion pricing being revived, environmental legislation, and much more.

On this week’s 51%, we speak with physician and author Dr. Alice Rothchild about her new memoir, "Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician." Rothchild worked almost 40 years as an OB/GYN, taught at Harvard Medical School, contributed to the first edition of "Our Bodies, Ourselves," and co-founded an all-women’s practice in Boston in the late 1970s. In Inspired and Outraged, Rothchild uses poetry to explore her transformation from a 1950s “good girl” to a fierce physician and activist.

(Airs 11/22/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Officials in New York are not pleased about the Federal reduction in hours at border crossings, the MTA Authority approves a new version of its original congestion pricing plan, and New York ranks in the top 5 of states for early diagnosis, surgery and survival of lung cancer.

(Airs 11/22/24 & 11/24/24 @ 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, Barbara Lombardo, Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany and former Editor of the Saratogian, and David Guistina, Media Project Producer, Morning Edition Anchor, and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, Barbara, and David talk about the hosts of Morning Joe on MSNBC visiting President-elect Donald Trump at Mara Lago to mend fences, what treatment the media and journalists can expect from a second Trump Administration, and much more.

(Airs 11/15/24 & 11/17/24 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, former Times Union Associate Editor Mike Spain, WAMC News Director Ian Pickus and David Guistina, Media Project Producer, Morning Edition Anchor, and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Judy, Mike, Ian and David talk about press coverage of President-elect Trump’s Cabinet nominations from New York, and what treatment the media and journalists can expect from a second Trump Administration, and more.

The solar cycle is in its maximum phase, causing the northern lights to recently be visible in lower latitudes. We’ll learn about the science of auroras.And amid a drought in the northeast United States, we’ll learn about the causes and science behind wildfires.