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(Airs 07/05/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: With President Biden facing growing public pressure to step aside after last week's debate, prominent upstate New York Democrats are divided on the question, we’ll speak with Deanna Fox, the new CEO of the NY Farm Bureau about how farmers fared in the recent legislative session, and Saranac Lake is planning to celebrate an historic link between the Philippines and the Adirondack village in August.

An architect’s client is not just a customer, not quite a colleague. Theirs is a curious collaboration, one gracefully navigated by the head of GLUCK+, Thomas Gluck and the executive director of the WHIN Music Community Charter School, Charlie Ortiz, and they’ve got a fine new building to show for it.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, July 6th, 2024

What a year we’re having. First we got to see a super-rare total solar eclipse, when the Moon completely covered the Sun. And now this week, almost as rare, the Moon will eclipse a far more distant star, a famous blue one. When a star is blocked by the Moon, it’s called an occultation, and it rarely happens to one of the few truly bright stars that happen to be positioned along the Moon’s path.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal of a strict abortion ban in Idaho, allowing some emergency abortions in the state to continue — for now. On this week’s 51%, we speak with Rutgers Law School Professor Kimberly Mutcherson about what this means for patients in Idaho, and for the Court.

Librarian Fred Gitner was recently honored by the American Library Association for his work at the Queens Public Library on programs to assist migrants. “Over 200 languages are spoken in Queens,” he says. “We have collections in 50 or so and regularly purchase in about 30.”

(Airs 06/06/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Theresa Roth, Executive Director for The New York State Children’s Alliance (NYSCA), about child abuse in schools.

(Airs 06/07/24 @ 3 p.m. & 06/09/24 @ 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 Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, Barbara, and Ira talk what’s going on at the Washington Post, sports journalism and the WNBA, and much more.

The rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, has been rocky this year. We’ll dig into how the bumpy rollout could affect colleges and universities.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, June 8th, 2024