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WGXC Morning Show: Steve Barnes, Lew Daly, Wayne Ho, Jay Egg, Keith Schue (Audio)

Mar 02, 2021
Steve Barnes from the Times Union on ghost kitchens during the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, Lew Daly is the author of a new report from NY Renews: False Solutions: Gas and Trash; How the Fossil Fuel Industry is holding Back a Just Transition. Daly, the former research director at Demos, discusses bioenergy, renewable natural gas and green hydrogen with Mark Dunlea from WOOC. And Wayne Ho, President & CEO of Chinese-American Planning Council, Inc., spoke with WOOC's Sina Basila Hickey about the recent surge in Anti-Asian violence. Plus, WOOC's Mark Dunlea speaks with Jay Egg and Keith Schue, who have been awarded the Constellation Prize for Policy Impact for their work with SHARE in helping to defeat the proposed fracked gas turbines on Sheridan Avenue to power the state capitol and plaza. The WGXC Morning Show is a radio magazine show featuring local news, interviews with community leaders and personalities, reports on cultural issues, a rundown of public meetings and local and regional events, with weather updates, and more about and for the community, made mostly through volunteers in the community through WGXC. The Catskill Makers Syndicate produce the "Better Weather" for the show. Rob Gelles produces the Columbia County history segment "Rob Around The County" and "This Month in History" for the show. Some reports come from our partner station, WOOC-LP in Troy, out of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Tom Roe also cuts up local and national news with songs and sounds for the show. At 9 a.m. "The WGXC Daily," with local headlines, weather, and previews of community events, airs. At 10 a.m., national headlines from Public News Service are on WGXC.