The WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Mendte

The WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Mendte

WOR News Director Larry Mendte takes a look back at some of the week’s biggest stories and talks with local newsmakers about the most important topics impacting our area.

Episodes

April 20, 2025 7 mins
Rich DeMuro hosts the nationally syndicated "Rich on Tech" radio show on 350+ stations, including 710~WOR in New York City.  On the show, he discusses consumer technology news and answers questions.  Rich covers major tech events and received a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for his coverage of technology-related social issues.  He has appeared on numerous national TV shows and networks, prior Rich was a senior editor at CNET and a re...
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Doctor Gregory A. Poland is an American physician and vaccinologist.  He is the Mary Lowell Leary professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, as well as the director of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group.  He is also the editor-in-chief of the medical journal Vaccine.  Poland received his BA in biology from Illinois Wesleyan University  In 1977 where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.  He received h...
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Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the New York Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and a law degree from Stanford University.  
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Vickie Paladino represents District 19 of Northeast Queens, which includes Whitestone, College Point, Bayside, Little Neck, Douglaston, and parts of North Flushing.  Elected in 2021 on a platform promising to deliver change and transparency to her district, Vickie works every single day to hold our leaders accountable and protect the interests of her constituents. Vickie was born in Whitestone to working-class parents. Her father, ...
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Ron Ananian learned some valuable lessons from his father, a mechanic who serviced President Franklin Roosevelt’s DC-3 aircraft during World War II.  He got the repair bug helping his father tune up the family car in time for an annual vacation.  He taught me to respect tools and machines.  My dad, who worked as the lead mechanic for American Airlines at LaGuardia Airport, would say, ''There is a place for everything and everything...
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Mike Thomas authored the critically acclaimed oral history The Second City Unscripted: Revolution and Revelation at the World-Famous Comedy Theater (Villard, 2009) and is a longtime arts/entertainment staff writer at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he frequently writes about comedy. Over the years he has interviewed numerous renowned comics and comedic actors, including Louis C.K., Stephen Colbert, Bill Cosby, Rodney Dangerfield, Phyl...
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Sliwa describes himself as a Republican candidate ''running for mayor of New York City to finally end the disastrous reign of de Blasio-Cuomo''.  In the late 1970s, he founded the Guardian Angels, a nonprofit volunteer organization that began its anti-crime activities by patrolling the subways.  Today, the group has chapters in 13 countries and over 100 cities, according to its website.  Safety and refunding the police are central ...
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Johnny has been The Post’s entertainment critic, its leading voice on movies and theater, since 2018. He began at The Post as an entertainment reporter in 2015 before moving to New York, he was a theater writer/editor at the Chicago Tribune and was chief theater critic of Newcity Chicago.  He is a voting member of the New York Drama Critics Circle.  Johnny majored in theater at Illinois State University. He lives in the East Villag...
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Veteran columnist Mike Kelly has reported from almost every corner of N.J. and the globe, including Iraq, Africa, Cuba, Malaysia, Israel (the West Bank and Gaza) and Northern Ireland.  He has covered many major stories, including the 9/11 attacks, the Clinton impeachment, Hurricane Katrina and the Bridgegate scandal.  Mr. Kelly's is also the author of three, critically acclaimed non-fiction books.  His website: www.mikekellywriter....
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Recently described by the media as a “legendary New York criminal defense attorney,” Jeffrey Lichtman has successfully handled criminal trials and appeals on some of the country’s largest stages.  His clients include those charged in the federal and state systems with white collar and non-white collar offenses.  For over 30 years, Mr. Lichtman’s practice style has been marked by exhaustive pretrial preparation and smothering pressu...
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Greg Giangrande is a transformative Human Resources and Communications leader with an exceptional record and reputation as a trusted partner and counselor to CEOs, Executive Leadership teams and Company Boards across iconic, multi-platform companies with global scale.  Recognized as a leading authority on careers and the workplace, Greg is the "GoToGreg" career advice columnist for the NY Post; was a weekly on-air contributor for I...
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Laura Curran is a Canadian-born American politician who served as the county executive of Nassau County from 2018 to 2021.  She was the ninth county executive in Nassau County history and the first woman to hold the office.  Curran worked as a reporter before serving in the Nassau County Legislature.  Curran previously served in the Nassau County Legislature from 2014 to 2017 and as a local school board member in her hometown of Ba...
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Gary Myers started covering the NFL in 1978 and was in the press box at Candlestick Park for The Catch on January 10, 1982, as the beat writer covering the Cowboys for the Dallas Morning News.  In 1989, he not only joined the New York Daily News, but also began a thirteen-season run as the inside information reporter for HBO’s popular Inside the NFL.  Myers has also hosted the YES Network’s This Week in Football since 2002.
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Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.  He writes for Politico, and often appears on such public-affairs programs as Meet the Press. Rich is a regular panelist on the KCRW program Left, Right & Center.  He is the author of Lincoln Unbound, The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free, and Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years — a New York Times bestseller.  Lowry began his career a...
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Rich DeMuro hosts the nationally syndicated "Rich on Tech" radio show on 350+ stations, including 710~WOR in New York City.  On the show, he discusses consumer technology news and answers questions.  Rich covers major tech events and received a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for his coverage of technology-related social issues.  He has appeared on numerous national TV shows and networks, prior Rich was a senior editor at CNET and a re...
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