#AskTheMayor; The Candidates' College Cost Proposals; A Campaign Sting Gone Wrong

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 27, 2016

Coming up on today's show:

  • NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses the latest city news.
  • Back before the debate over transgender people and bathrooms became the political firestorm it is right now, the bathroom was still a place of great emotional and social contention for trans individuals. Meredith Russo shares her personal story of switching bathrooms while transitioning and the backlash she faced.
  • On #30Issues, we continue our conversation about the cost of college by looking at each of the candidates' proposals on college debt with NPR's Anya Kamenetz.
  • Hear about a self-described guerrilla journalist and his failed sting on a prominent donor to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, with The New Yorker's Jane Mayer.
  • How do New York City's parks rate on a national level? Here to report: Adrian Benepe, senior vice president and director of City Park Development at The Trust for Public Land and former NYC Parks Department commissioner.

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