Beating the Heat; Spanish-Language Media; The Economic Tools to Cool Inflation; #BLTrees: July

Coming up on today's show:

• Christina Farrell, first deputy commissioner of the NYC Office of Emergency Management, talks about what her office is doing to help New Yorkers most at risk during the heat wave. Then Mark Levine, Manhattan borough president, shares more tips on how to beat the heat, as well as his plan to help slow the monkeypox outbreak.

• A new company recently purchased eighteen Spanish-language stations that will serve ten of the largest Latinx-populated cities in the country. Graciela Mochkofsky, dean-elect at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism and contributing writer for The New Yorker, joins to talk about what this means for the Spanish speaking community, plus her thoughts on the state of journalism as she enters her new role as dean of the Craig Newmark School of Journalism.
  
  
• Austan D. Goolsbee, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and a member of the President Barack Obama's cabinet, breaks down the latest economic headlines.
  
  
• We check in on our year-long project #BLTrees, following the seasons through the trees around us with Marielle Anzelone, urban botanist and ecologist and the founder of NYC Wildflower Week. This month, Kate Orff, landscape architect, founder of SCAPE Studio and professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) where she directs Urban Design Program and isco-director of the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes (CRCL), talks about "Trees as Protection" from the sun, storm surges, and air particles.

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