November 3, 2023 - Ted Potrikus, who spent decades with the Retail Council of New York State, talks about his new book, which highlights some of his lobbying experience and serves as a navigation guide for Planet Albany.

November 3, 2023 - The Adirondack Council is out with their annual State of the Park report, which includes an assessment of the legislative and regulatory actions in Albany. The group's spokesman, John Sheehan, joins the show to discuss what went right over the last year, what went wrong, and what is left to be done.

November 2, 2023 - Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat, talks about a recent hearing on updating New York's bottle deposit laws and consider what future legislative action could look like.

November 2, 2023 - We discuss the affordability issues facing mobile home owners and highlight new housing protections for these New Yorkers, with Mike Borges, executive director of the Rural Housing Coalition of New York.

For her Artist Propulsion Lab residency, composer Shelley Washington wanted to pull back the curtain on composers’ lives and work. As part of that, she composed a new work for the ~Nois saxophone quartet and recorded voice memos documenting her process. The piece, Eternal Present, is about Shelley’s experiences of time-blindness, and premiered on New Sounds in September. In this podcast, Shelley takes us inside her process of composing Eternal Present.

November 1, 2023 - New York Civil Liberties Union staff attorney JP Perry provides an update on her organization's legal fight with the state to ensure low-income criminal defendants are provided legal defense attorneys.

November 1, 2023 - Dan Shapley, senior director of advocacy, policy, and planning for Riverkeeper, explains how strong state sewage regulations could make waterways in Hudson Valley, New York City, and Long Island safe for swimming again.

November 1, 2023 - For New Yorkers with disabilities it can be a challenge to get annual vaccinations, which is why Courtney Skivington-Wolf, the COO at Partners Health Plan, has outlined best practices for the medical community to implement for an easier process.

November 1, 2023 - Michael Bonse and Johanna Sullivan, of the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, make the case for law enforcement to update their training for domestic violence responses using a new model policy from the state.

October 31, 2023 - New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault Executive Director Emily Miles reviews the implementation of New York's "Enough is Enough" law and makes the case for increased financing and oversight of the measure.