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

February 1, 2025 8 mins
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Mark Starling has a lengthy background in News/Talk radio, mornings will be nothing new for him; he started his radio career doing mornings for 7 years at WLKF in Lakeland, Florida.  Mark has stops in Ithaca, NY, Rochester, NY, Harrisonburg, Va, and Tampa, Florida.  Starling's most recent stop was with News 96.5FM in Orlando where he served as the PM Drive anchor for Orlando's Evening News for 18 months.
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Joseph C. Borelli is the Minority Leader of the New York City Council and represents the 51st Council District, which encompasses Staten Island’s South Shore.  A passionate advocate for conservative ideology and common-sense governance, Borelli is dedicated to improving the quality of life for residents of his home borough and the city as a whole.  He was instrumental in the successful fight to eradicate polychlorinated biphenyls (...
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 John J. Nance has served as a leader and a pioneer in both aviation and medical safety and quality, and for the past 18 years he has become a familiar face to North American television audiences as the Aviation Analyst for ABC World News and Good Morning America.  As a professional speaker, John has given thousands of presentations over the last three decades to corporations, hospitals, military groups & government departments...
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Joe Neumaier, former film critic and film editor at the New York Daily News, has been a journalist and critic in New York for over 20 years.  His writing on movies and Hollywood has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, the New York Post, the London Observer, the Washington Post, USA Today Weekend, Hamptons magazine and the Financial Times.com, among others.  He"s appeared on MSNBC, Channel 2"s Sunday Morning, Fox 5...
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Sean Michael Spicer(born September 23, 1971) is an American former political aide who served as the 30th White House Press Secretary and as White House Communications Director under President Donald Trump in 2017.  Spicer was communications director of the Republican National Committee from 2011 to 2017, and its chief strategist from 2015 to 2017.  During his tenure as White House press secretary, Spicer made a number of public sta...
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Cindy Zipf uses her passion for science and advocacy to create campaigns and programs to drive public policy and reduce pollution.  Since its beginning in 1984, she has been at the helm of COA, the lean, green, ocean pollution fighting machine that is the only full-time ocean advocacy organization dedicated exclusively to the NY and NJ region. She reviews and evaluates regional, state, and federal policies for impacts to marine wat...
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Robert F. Holden was born in 1951 and raised in Maspeth  He and his wife of 45 years, Amy, have lived in Middle Village for decades and have three children and four grandchildren.  Holden worked as a graphic designer and served as a professor at New York City College of Technology (CUNY) in the Department of Communication Design.  For 25 years, he held the office of president of the Juniper Park Civic Association, which represents ...
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Marc Malkin is one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces on the red carpet.  An award-winning and Emmy-nominated journalist with more than two decades of experience working across broadcast, print and digital media, Marc began his career in celebrity journalism at Premiere magazine and went on to write, report and edit for the New York Daily News, Us Weekly and New York magazine.  He also served as an on-air correspondent at E! Ne...
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William Joseph Bratton, CBE is an American businessman and former law enforcement officer who served two non-consecutive tenures as the New York City Police Commissioner and currently one of only two NYPD commissioners to do so.  He previously served as the Commissioner of the Boston Police Department (BPD) (1993–1994) and Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) (2002–2009). He is the only person to have led the police de...
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Positions & Education:

Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics, Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine


Director, Division of Medical Ethics


Graduate Education
PhD from Columbia 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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Andrew Ansbro is President of the FDNY- Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York, representing 20,000 active duty and retired New York City Firefighters.  Ansbro was elected in June of 2020 to the post after serving as a UFA Delegate from 58 Engine in Harlem from 2005-2014 and a Marine Engineer Delegate from 2019-present.  Ansbro is a second-generation civil servant.  His father retired from the NYPD in 2002 as the Ch...
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Mike Lawler has a long history of public service.  Prior to being elected to the State Assembly, he served as the Deputy Town Supervisor in Orangetown and was a Senior Advisor to the Westchester County Executive.

Mike also served as Executive Director of the State Republican Party and previously founded his own government affairs and public relations firm.  He graduated from Manhattan College with degrees in Accounting and Finance a...
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