Episodios

  • Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins on State Budget Negotiations & Top Priorities

    Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins on State Budget Negotiations & Top Priorities
    Apr 10 2026
    New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Westchester Democrat who has led the Senate since 2019, joined the show to discuss the status of state budget negotiations as the Senate and Assembly majorities and Governor Hochul work to agree on a spending and policy plan. The state fiscal year began April 1, but the parties have passed budget extenders to pay the state's bills while they negotiate the roughly $265 billion spending plan that will also include a variety of major policy decisions, how much aid the state gives New York City, and much more. (Ep 577)
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    41 m
  • Finance Chair Linda Lee on the City Council's Budget Response to Mayor Mamdani

    Finance Chair Linda Lee on the City Council's Budget Response to Mayor Mamdani
    Apr 4 2026
    New York City Council Finance Chair Linda Lee, a Queens Democrat, joined the show to discuss the Council's response to Mayor Mamdani's $127 billion preliminary budget for next fiscal year (FY27, which begins July 1), top Council priorities, how the two sides of City Hall differ on closing the city's budget gap, what the city is asking for from the state, and more. (Ep 576)
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    58 m
  • Comptroller Mark Levine on City Budget Negotiations & the Importance of Economic Growth

    Comptroller Mark Levine on City Budget Negotiations & the Importance of Economic Growth
    Mar 27 2026
    New York City Comptroller Mark Levine, a Democrat, returned to the show for further discussion of the city's difficult budget picture and how to fill the multi-billion-dollar budget gap that Mayor Mamdani inherited — including on savings, spending, tax policy, state aid to the city, and more — as well as discussion of the importance of economic growth in the city and key pillars to a city economic development strategy. (Ep 375)
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    48 m
  • Senator Gustavo Rivera on State Budget Negotiations, Health Policy, & More

    Senator Gustavo Rivera on State Budget Negotiations, Health Policy, & More
    Mar 21 2026
    State Senator Gustavo Rivera, a Bronx Democrat and chair of the Senate health committee, joined the show to discuss state budget negotiations with under two weeks until the April 1 start of the new fiscal year. The conversation touched on major areas of negotiation among Governor Hochul and the two Democratic majorities of the State Legislature including climate and energy regulations, tax rates, Medicaid and other health policy and budget issues, mayoral control of New York City schools, and more. (Ep 574)
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    57 m
  • Housing Priorities for the Mamdani Admin, SEQRA Reform, & More, with Howard Slatkin & Annemarie Gray

    Housing Priorities for the Mamdani Admin, SEQRA Reform, & More, with Howard Slatkin & Annemarie Gray
    Mar 13 2026
    Experts Howard Slatkin and Annemarie Gray joined the show to discuss housing priorities for the Mamdani Administration, the city's overall housing policy and political climate, the push for state-level environmental review reform to speed housing development, and more housing policy specifics. Slatkin, executive director of Citizens Housing and Planning Council, is a former top official at the NYC Department of City Planning, and Gray, executive director of Open New York, is a former housing and planning official in the NYC Mayor's Office. (Ep 573)
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    1 h y 17 m
  • Lincoln Restler on Making Government Work, the Streets Plan, & the Department of Community Safety

    Lincoln Restler on Making Government Work, the Streets Plan, & the Department of Community Safety
    Mar 7 2026
    New York City Council Member Lincoln Restler, a Brooklyn Democrat, joined the show to discuss making city government work, his priorities for the new term, a recent hearing on the city's Streets Plan and the expansion of bus, bike, and pedestrian infrastructure, his bill to create the Department of Community Safety that Mayor Mamdani has promised, and more. (Ep 372)
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    1 h y 4 m
  • Julie Won on Her Bid for Congress in NY-7

    Julie Won on Her Bid for Congress in NY-7
    Feb 28 2026
    Julie Won, a Democratic candidate for Congress in New York's 7th Congressional District (which includes parts of Brooklyn and Queens), joined the show to discuss her campaign to succeed the retiring Rep. Nydia Velázquez in the House of Representatives. Won is a City Council member from Queens running in this June 2026 primary. (EP 571)
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    1 h
  • Jasmine Gripper & Ana Maria Archila on the WFP, Progressive Politics, & 2026 Elections

    Jasmine Gripper & Ana Maria Archila on the WFP, Progressive Politics, & 2026 Elections
    Feb 26 2026
    Jasmine Gripper and Ana Maria Archila returned to the show to discuss their work leading the New York Working Families Party, progressive politics and efforts to influence state policy-making, Mayor Mamdani, Governor Hochul, and endorsements in 2026 Democratic primaries including New York's 7th and 10th congressional districts. Gripper and Archila have been co-directors of the NYWFP for the last few years, and Gripper has now become sole state director while Archila just left party leadership to soon join the Mamdani administration as Commissioner of International Affairs. (Ep 570
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    1 h y 3 m