City Spending Cuts; Hoboken's Response to Climate Change; Adam Kinzinger; Dean Obeidallah

4 segments
Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-WY, speaks as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol meets, 12/19/22. Co-chair Bennie Thompson, L, and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R.

On today's show:

  • Laura Nahmias, senior reporter covering New York City and state politics at Bloomberg News, discusses the cuts to services from libraries to the NYPD, in a mid-year adjustment from Mayor Adams.
  • Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for The New York Times and the author of The Intimate City: Walking New York (Penguin Press, 2022), talks about the work Hoboken has done since the flooding during Sandy to handle storm surges and heavy downpours.
  • Adam Kinzinger, former Illinois congressman (2011 to 2023) who served on the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, Air Force veteran, CNN commentator and the author (with Michael D'Antonio) of Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country (The Open Field, 2023), talks about his new book and the current state of the Republican Party.
  • Dean Obeidallah, comedian and co-founder of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and host of ""The Dean Obeidallah Show” on SiriusXM radio, talks about the New York Arab American Comedy Festival 20th anniversary tour and finding ways to laugh in tough times, from the festival's founding in the wake of 9/11 to the conflicts today.

 

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