What's in the City's $107 Billion Budget?; The Big Picture on NYC Public Safety; The USDA Clears "Lab Grown" Meat; Opinion Day

Mayor Eric Adams outlines his FY24 Executive Budget and then holds a press conference to discuss the proposed budget at City Hall on Wednesday, April 26, 2023.

Coming up on today's show:

  • After months of contentious negotiations, Mayor Adams and the City Council agreed on a budget deal. Elizabeth Kim and Giulia Heyward, reporters for Gothamist and WNYC, talk about how libraries, schools and other agencies fared.
  • Deanna Logan, director of the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ), talks about the work of the MOCJ in seeking solutions to public safety issues and the effect of bail reform on the supervised release program the office oversees.
  • Last week, the USDA cleared the sale of cultivated meat, also known as lab-grown meat. Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business writer covering the food sector, explains how the meat is grown in a lab and its implications, including the impact that it might make on reducing climate change and whether or not it complies with halal and kosher food practices.
  • Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, host of its new podcast "Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal" and the author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution (The New Press, 2022) now in paperback, talks about the final three cases expected to be decided on the last day of this Supreme Court term.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.