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(Airs 07/19/24 @ 3 p.m. & 07/21/24 @ 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 about media coverage of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, the Republican national convention, and much more.

Zach Iscol served in Iraq as a Marine and is now commissioner of New York City’s Department of Emergency Management. “We are always activated. We’re always responding to stuff,” he says. How to prepare for the worst.

(Airs 07/19/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Hochul convenes a youth mental health roundtable, two upstate prisons are closing, and we’ll have reaction from Hudson Valley lawmakers to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

(Airs 07/25/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar.

A century ago the famed astronomer Percival Lowell believed an unknown “planet X” was gravitationally tugging on Uranus and Neptune. So the wealthy Lowell founded an Arizona observatory to try to detect this ninth planet. We’re reminded of all this because this past week is when Pluto has come to its closest to Earth of 2024.

(Airs 07/18/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina speaks with New York State Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes about the GOP national convention platform and its potential impact on New York, whether President Biden should step aside for a younger candidate, the suspension of congestion pricing, cell phones in schools, and update on the legal cannabis industry, and much more.

(Airs 07/26/24 @ 3 p.m. & 07/28/24 @ 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 WAMC News Director Ian Pickus. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, Barbara, and Ian talk about what right wing media figures are saying about Kamala Harris, the appetite for more news about the former Vice President, former President and current President, and much more.

Vice President Kamala Harris is on track to earn the Democratic nomination for president. On this week's 51%, we speak with Ange-Marie Hancock, a political science professor at The Ohio State University, to learn more about Harris' work as vice president, and the obstacles commonly faced by women candidates on the campaign trail.

(Airs 08/15/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with New York State Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay, a Republican, about calls to revise the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Preservation act, prison closures, good cause eviction, the GOP national convention, and much more.

(Airs 08/08/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with New York State Senator James Skoufis, a Democrat, about the lack of housing, why he’s glad congestion pricing was suspended in New York City, his continuing investigations into IDAs, retail theft, and much more.