Ask the Mayor; Deals on the Hill; NJ Mayors; Pittsburgh

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 9, 2018

Coming up on today's show:

  • New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC;
  • Gabe Debenedetti, POLITICO national political reporter, reports on the overnight budget deal;
  • Steve Fulop, mayor of Jersey City, and Nora Radest, mayor of Summit, New Jersey, talk about New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy's proposal to get around the SALT deduction cap that he unveiled at the recent NJ Conference of Mayors event; and
  • Mark Whitaker, former managing editor of CNN Worldwide and the author of Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance  (Simon & Schuster, 2018), looks at the history and influence of the African American community in Pittsburgh.

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