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27:30 On this week’s 51%, hear from the first woman expected to serve as Vermont Senate Pro Tem, and another woman has taken disaster prepping to another level. A record number of women will serve in Congress next year. And women are gaining political ground in a number of states, including Vermont. In fact, when the new biennium of the legislature begins on January 6th, the first woman to serve as the Vermont Senate Pro Tem is expected to be confirmed. During a caucus in November, Democrat B...

  The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Todays panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Cohoes City Director of Operations Theresa Bourgeois, The Empire Reports J. P. Miller, and former Associate Editor of The Times Union Mike Spain. Tags: 

(Airs 12/20/20 @ 6 p.m. & 12/21/20 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Times Union Editor-at-Large Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Editor and Investigative Journalist and Professor at the University at Albany, and Barbara Lombardo, Journalism Professor at the University at Albany and former Executive Editor of The Saratogian and Daily Freeman. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rosemary, Rex and Barbara talk about...

  The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Todays panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, counter-terrorism expert and best-selling author Malcolm Nance, political consultant and lobbyist Libby Post, and Albany Law School professor and Director of the Immigration Law Clinic Sarah Rogerson. We are also joined, for a portion of the program, by Dr. James Fagin, MD, an Immunology & Allergy Specialist in New Hyde Park, New York. Tags: 

• Dec 4, 2020 (Airs 12/04/20 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Two state Senators oppose a plan to raise tolls by nearly a third for drivers who don’t have EZ Pass, our political observer Alan Chartock on the politics of the pandemic, and the Governor signs major environmental legislation." class="wysiwyg-break drupal-content" src="/sites/all/modules/contrib/wysiwyg/plugins/break/images/...

5:54 WAMCs Dr. Alan Chartock discusses reports that Congress appears to be approaching a compromise on a $900 billion coronavirus relief package.  Dr. Chartock also considers whether New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will have to raise taxes on the states wealthy residents to address a massive budget gap. Also in the headlines: President-elect Joe Biden says he has been briefed on a number of cybersecurity breaches recently identified by the U.S. government. Tags: 

Trumps Popularity Among Republicans Could Make His Children Political Forces By Ryan Chatelain Nationwide SHARE Could the Trumps follow in the footsteps of the Kennedys and Bushes to emerge as the next American political dynasty? What You Need To Know Experts say that Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party is so strong that his family members could become political forces, with him campaignin...

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Todays panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, investigative journalist and UAlbany adjunct professor Rosemary Armao,  Times Union columnist Chris Churchill, and Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany Robert Griffin. Tags: 

27:30 On this week’s 51%, she’s a professor, pilot, computer scientist and author, and talks about how flying helped her face many fears. And we’ll hear about environmentally-friendly feminine products. The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a timid child in a small Midwestern town during the 1960s. Targeted by school bullies and dismissed by many of her teachers, she worried that people would find out the truth: that she was INTF. Inco...

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Todays panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, investigative journalist and UAlbany adjunct professor Rosemary Armao, The Empire Report’s J.P. Miller, and former Associate Editor of The Times Union Mike Spain. Tags: