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Rep. Jeffries on COVID-19 Relief, The Debt, And Other Issues
U.S. Representative (D NY-8th, Brooklyn and Queens) and House Democrats chairman Hakeem Jeffries, talks about the latest on the Covid-19 relief bill, and other national issues before Congress.
Two Big NYPD Stories
Jake Offenhartz, Gothamist/WNYC reporter, reports on how the NYPD's Strategic Response Group - formed as an anti-terror squad -- instead wound up heavily policing protests this past summer. Plus: Gothamist and WNYC filed a public records request years ag
What 'La Brega' Means to Puerto Ricans
Alana Casanova-Burgess, host of La Brega, and reporter and producer for WNYC's On the Media, talks about her new podcast, La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience, and explains what "la brega" means to Puerto Ricans, and how it so often defines l
Group Therapy for Therapists
Lori Gottlieb, psychotherapist, cohost of the Dear Therapists podcast, and the author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019), talks about how the role and job of therapist
Money & Endorsements In The Mayoral & Council Races
With the June primary four months away, Brigid Bergin, the City Hall and politics reporter for WNYC and David Cruz, WNYC/Gothamist news editor, talk about some of the factors shaping the race, including big endorsements and big money.
Economic Relief and Equity
Heather McGhee, chair of Color of Change board of directors, former president of the liberal think tank Demos and the author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World, 2021), talks about her new book and how
Police Reform from the Inside
Rosa Brooks, law professor at Georgetown University and founder of Georgetown's Innovative Policing Program and the author of Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City ( Penguin Press, 2021), talks about what she learned after joining the Washington
Call Your Senator: Sen. Gillibrand on COVID-19 Relief, Immigration Reform
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D NY) talks about the razor-thin Democratic majority in the Senate and what that means for the Biden agenda and New York residents, including on immigration reform, COVID relief and more.
Sen Biaggi on Revoking Cuomo's Emergency Powers
Alessandra Biaggi, State Senator representing New York's 34th Senate District, talks about the details of her bill, which would repeal Governor Cuomo's expanded emergency powers, which he was granted last spring at the start of the pandemic.
Advice For Raising Pandemic Pets
Pet adoptions have boomed since the start of the pandemic, and dog trainers and pet behavior specialists are booked for weeks in advance. Robert Haussmann, certified trainer and behavior specialist and co-founder of Dogboy NYC, takes your calls if you've