Other Voices

About 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

The Altamont Enterprise & Albany County Post

Category

kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2015

Latest episode

12 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

426 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Sept 2026

   Don Teator produces nostalgic, educational calendar of Greenville area barns

   Drawing on his background as a teacher and historian, Don Teator said he wants people to learn something from the 2027 calendars on Greenville area barns. “Every time I pass a barn, these barns either whisper or speak or shout something about their lives and the lives of the people who live there,” he said. “It’s a reflection of the culture and the society that they have thrived in.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   1 May 2026

   Memoirist Linda Bakst explores what it means to be a Jewish American

   One of her goals in writing the book, Linda Bakst said, is for people who are not Jewish to read it. “People may have a picture, a fairly stereotypical picture of what a Jewish person is,” she said, “and there’s a whole range of the way it’s expressed.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   5 Feb 2026

   Gerard Wallace’s lifetime and work on kinship care

   Gerard Wallace, who grew up in Brooklyn, suffered as a child and so devoted his career to ending childhood suffering. Retired now, he lives in the rural Helderbergs and believes some of the worst suffering happens in rural areas. Wallace, a lawyer who advocated for kinship family rights, had a hand in creating a dozen laws in New York state that gives grandmothers and other kin rights in caring for children whose parents are unfit. “Why I got into kinship care and meeting grandparents raising kids is that my home was really a broken home,” Wallace says in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “My father was an alcoholic, worked on the waterfront. He was a good person but, when he drank, it was a nightmare …. We grew up in a state of toxic stress.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

47,777,535

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

23

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

32