Part 1: Does the President Matter? We hear more voices from last week's Fall Conference at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The Conference was called: "Does the President Matter? A Conference on the American Age of Political Disrepair," and was covered by WGXC's Rosalie Elkinton.

Part 2: What the Frack? We speak with Roger Downs, Legislative Director of the Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter, about the regulatory rule-making process for natural gas drilling using hydraulic fracturing to better understand the anticipated delay for finalizing regulations around "fracking" in NY-state.

Part 3: Local Elections: A conversation with Parry Teasdale, Editor/Publisher at the Columbia Paper and the former editor of the Columbia Independent, about regional elections and candidates.

Part 4: The Compact: A live set with Erin Hobson and Steven Ross, performing tonight at Club Helsinki in Hudson. Plus local headlines, events, radio banter, and more.