Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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Anything But Election News
It's only March, but a lot of us already experiencing 2016-election-coverage-fatigue.
So tell us: what recent news stories (local, national, or international) have been overshadowed by election news? Call 212-433-9692, or tweet at us @BrianLehrer.
Here to get the ball rolling with a few news stories: Azi Paybarah, a reporter for POLITICO New York, Lee Keough, Editor in Chief of NJSpotlight.com, and Cora Currier, reporter at The Intercept.
Among the stories the reporters discussed with Brian are the safety crisis in New York City's homeless shelters, New Jersey's transportation funding crisis and an Italian aid worker captured by al Qaeda in Pakistan and killed by a U.S. drone strike, whose family still hasn't received compensation that Pres. Obama said they would in a speech about the strike in April 2015.