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If you’re tired of missing the news from your backyard and the rest of the Northeast because you can’t catch all of Midday Magazine and Northeast Report, you can do something about it: subscribe to our new podcast. The WAMC News Podcast offers regular updates downloaded right to your smartphone, as well as exclusive interviews and more.
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Donald Trump’s return to the White House has some worrying about how his policies will affect consumer prices, the agricultural, and high-tech sectors. We speak with Hugh Johnson, chairman and chief investment officer at Hugh Johnson Advisors in Albany.
Officials in New York state are celebrating enrollment increases in the State University of New York system. According to new data, SUNY saw enrollment gains for the second year in a row for the first time in 15 years. We speak with SUNY Chancellor John King.
We break down the election results and what they mean for New York with Politico's Nick Reisman.
New York Democrats came into the election working feverishly to flip several key House seats, and they largely succeeded. But that was a rare bright spot during a huge performance for Republicans. We break it down with Jay Jacobs, Chair of the New York State Democratic Committee.
A lot of public radio reporting is telling difficult stories about challenging things that happen to other people. For NPR Life Kit host Marielle Segarra, a surprising breast cancer diagnosis a year ago was also a chance to get out the word about risk factors, treatment, and the latest science.
The holidays are on the horizon and with it, infectious disease season. Public health officials are hoping residents of the Northeast will get inoculated against the flu and COVID-19. We speak with Dr. Justin Chan, Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Bellevue Hospital Center.
On January 6, 2021, a lot of the people who stormed in the capitol in Washington were dressed like members of the military. But some of them were actually members of the military, too. A new NPR Embedded series called “A Good Guy” follows the case of one of them. We speak with NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and producer Lauren Hodges.
Is there a difference between solitude and loneliness? That’s an essential question in the new book “Party Of One: Be Your Own Best Life Partner” from NPR’s Meghan Keane, the longtime producer and creator of NPR’s Life Kit.
The conclusions of a months-long investigation into a roiling culture war in Stamford, Vt.
The candidates in the race for New York’s 19th Congressional district seat, Republican Rep. Marc Molinaro and Democratic challenger Josh Riley, debate for their only time before their rematch.
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The candidates running for Plattsburgh, New York mayor have debated as part of a Mountain Lake PBS broadcast. Democrat Wendell Hughes represents Area 8 in the Clinton County Legislature, which includes the south end of the city, and Republican Don Kasprzak served as mayor from 2004 to 2014. Mayor Chris Rosenquest is not running for a second four-year term. WAMC’s North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley was a panelist.
Wall Street profits increased more than 79 percent in the first of half of the year compared with the same period last year — and annual profits are expected to finish the year much stronger than 2023’s mark. That’s according to a new report from New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
The New York State Index of Consumer Sentiment now stands at 75.9 — at the breakeven point where pessimism and optimism are balanced. That’s according to the latest poll from the Siena College Research Institute, which finds consumer sentiment is unchanged from the second quarter of the year. The poll finds New Yorkers remain concerned about consumer costs. We speak with poll director Dr. Don Levy.
Longtime NPR Music contributors Ann Powers and Alison Fensterstock stop by to discuss the new book “How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History From NPR Music.” The book is part reclamation, part encyclopedia, and part critical reconsideration.
On November 5, voters in the 3rd Berkshire State House district will decide on their first new representative in over two decades. Marybeth Mitts is running against her as an independent candidate in the general after Democrat Leigh Davis won the primary. We speak with Mitts, of the Lenox town board, about how she hopes to win.
The presidential election is almost here, and it features a familiar face who’s already held the office against a trailblazer many Americans are still learning about. A new PBS “Frontline” documentary is the latest in an election year series focused on the candidates that dates to 1988. We speak with filmmaker Michael Kirk about “The Choice: Harris vs. Trump.”
The last several years have been a rollercoaster for state and local budget-writers, who confronted the disruption and uncertainty of the COVID pandemic, which torpedoed revenues, then an influx of federal aid that shored things up in the near term but left question marks in the out years. We speak with Justin Theal about new research from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Author Mark Leibovich of The Atlantic has spent years studying how figures in Washington secure power and hold on to it – often regardless of the outcome of any particular election. The Atlantic's latest issue is making some headlines of its own, with its wordless cover suggesting the peril to American institutions that may be in store in a second Trump term. Leibovich's new article is titled "Hypocrisy, Spinelessness and the Triumph of Donald Trump."
The Trust for America’s Health has released a new report on American obesity rates, and the numbers are startling. Four in 10 American adults are obese, and 23 states have adult obesity rates at or above 35 percent. We speak with Trust president Dr. Nadine Gracia.
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