Other Voices
Often, truth isn’t handed down from public officials but comes from listening to other voices. Once a week, you can hear a wide variety of views from people who shape our corner of the world in New York’s Capital Region. The Altamont Enterprise is the weekly newspaper of record for Albany County, New York.
We’ve talked with a Buddhist who provided therapy for Gilda Radner and then helped set up Gilda’s Club after she died; with a Muslim woman who is trying to educate people about her religion as she feels increased hatred; with an African-American man who, as a teenager, helped ferry people north from a town in Mississippi haunted by lynchings.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 421
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
GleeBoxx creator Shreya Sharath wants forgotten people to feel seen
Wiles publishes a book on lessons in leadership learned from the Bard
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Kate Cohen says, to save the country, atheists should make themselves known
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Daughter and mother coach dragon-boat paddlers
Anna Judge and Louisa Matthew realize they live in an ageist and sexist society — but, with generous spirits, they are paddling against the current.
The mother-daughter duo together coach a crew of dr…
Lyon Greenberg: A doctor takes a long view of his farm and his life’s journey
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Sky Baestlein follows her passions with a purpose
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Arthur Y. Webb, consummate public servant
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Angelica Sofia Parker and Elca Hubbard prepare for a pageant while supporting each other
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Diane Luci learned empathy as a child and uses it to mend a rent society
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Emily Tice: Baking is more than filling; it's fulfilling
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Pastor Holly Cameron says we desire to be connected
Holly Cameron loves her church.
She has been the pastor of the New Scotland Presbyterian Church for 25 years.
“The church is a place to try to understand what is something larger than myself, both with…
John Fritze says: Ham radios serve the public
John Fritze Jr. is a dedicated ham radio operator and a third-generation jeweler. He is passionate about both his avocation and his vocation — and on the cutting edge of each.
Hams have a saying as th…
Market ‘a chance for all of Guilderland to come together,’ says Scott Abraham
When Scott Abraham read about farmers committing suicide, he decided to do something about it.He read about families that had owned their farms for generations but couldn’t carry on. “It was just too…
Chef Lateef Clark says good meals can make a difference in students’ lives
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Alan Kowlowitz, New Scotland's application for national historic districts
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Tara McCormick-Hostash tells stories in an intimate space
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Nicole Gladieux, ‘Be a part of the community coming together’
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Poet Leonard A. Slade Jr., ‘We need to celebrate love and get to know one another’
In the way most of us breathe air — an essential intake to sustain life — Leonard A. Slade Jr. breathes poetry.
He inhales the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and Langston Hughes, an…
Anthropologist Thomas Plummer: Who made the earliest tools?
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Anita Martin on a journey to ‘help the horse world’
Anita Martin talks to horses.As a certified equine sports massage therapist, she helps horses in pain.
“When horses are in pain,” she says, “they need help. They can’t tell us with words, but they cer…