Coming up on today's show:

• Mayor Adams has called for city agencies to cut their budgets, but the Independent Budget Office found the city is owed more than $2 billion dollars in unpaid fines. NYC Council Member Gale Brewer (District 6, Central Park, Lincoln Square, Upper West Side, Clinton), who commissioned the IBO's report, shares her priorities for the city's budget.
  
  
• After days of protests for more gun control laws after a school shooting last month, two Black lawmakers in Tennessee's House were expelled for their roles in the protests. Blaise Gainey, political reporter for WPLN, reports on what happened and what might happen with both gun laws and the lawmakers in the coming days.
  
  
• Terri Gerstein, fellow at the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School and the Economic Policy Institute, talks about the recent changes to child labor laws around the country and why a loosening of those laws may be harmful to children.
  
  
• Brendan O’Leary, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, honorary professor of political science at Queen’s University Belfast and the author of Making Sense of a United Ireland (Penguin Ireland, 2022), talks about the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended the violence in Northern Ireland and where things stand now and the potential for a united country one day.
  
  
• Marielle Anzelone, urban botanist and ecologist and the founder of NYC Wildflower Week, tells us more about where to look and how to identify the trees in bloom now, as listener share their favorites.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.