Monday Morning Politics: Looking Ahead to Midterms; New Jersey Budget Update; Investing Pension Funds In Affordable Housing; Jazz Legacies

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 20
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On today's show: 

  • David Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst for The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, talks about early indications for the upcoming midterm elections.

  • Michael Sol Warren, New Jersey reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, recaps last week's Ask Governor Sherrill and updates the New Jersey budget developments.

  • Mark Levine, NYC Comptroller, talks about his plan to invest $4 billion from NYC's pension funds into affordable housing developments in the city, plus weighs in on the budget and other city news.

  • Elizabeth Alexander, president of The Mellon Foundation, poet, educator, memoirist and scholar and the author of The Trayvon Generation (Grand Central Publishing, 2022), talks about the latest cohort of the Mellon Foundation's (in partnership with the Jazz Foundation of America) jazz legacies fellows, and the importance of the genre. Plus, saxophonist Gary Bartz reflects on his long career in jazz.

 

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

Photo credit: dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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