Mayor's Homeless Encampments Sweeps; Will the NYS Budget Help Decarbonize Buildings?; A Russian Scholar on Putin's Plans; 'Trans Youth Town Hall'

Coming up on today's show:

• Elizabeth Kim, reporter who covers mayoral power for the People and Power team at Gothamist and WNYC, and Juan Manuel Benitez, reporter at NY1 and host PuraPolítica, talk about the latest city news, including the Adams' Administration's work to clear encampments of unhoused people throughout the city this week.
  
  
• The number one emitters of carbon in New York State are its buildings. Lisa Dix, New York director of the Building Decarbonization Coalition, discusses how those emissions can be reduced through funds in Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposed New York State budget.
  
  
•  Nina Khrushcheva, professor international affairs at The New School and co-author (with Jeffrey Tayler) of In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones (St. Martin's Press, 2019), shares her thoughts on Putin's approach to peace talks with Ukraine, and more as the war continues.
  
  
• Raquel Willis, writer, activist, and host of LOGOtv's three-part series "Trans Youth Town Hall," discusses her television series and takes calls from trans listeners on Trans Day of Visibility.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.