
Measles Outbreak Now Public Health Emergency; Trump's Taxes; Cannabis as a Social Justice Issue; A New Wave of Progressive Prosecutors
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 10, 2019
 Coming up on today's show:Â
- Dr. Oxiris Barbot, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, discusses New York City's efforts to combat the outbreak of the measles virus, including the declaration of a public health emergency, and what that entails;
- New York State Senator, Brad Hoylman (D-27) talks about the legislation he is sponsoring that would make President Trump's New York State tax returns public.
- Shaleen Title, commissioner of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, Massachusetts voters elected to legalize cannabis in 2016. Title joins to discuss how the state is working to ensure business opportunities to communities that have been disproportionately impacted by cannabis prohibition and Crystal Peoples-Stokes, Democratic majority leader of the New York State Assembly (District 141, Buffalo), joins to talk about New York's efforts ahead of legalization; Â
- Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, and the Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and the author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration  (Random House, 2019), looks at the role "tough on crime" prosecutors (and the voters who elected them) have had in creating the crisis of mass incarceration.


