Primary Day Exit Poll; Climate Change in NJ Schools; Life and Times of Richard Ravitch; Supreme Court Opinion Day
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 27, 2023
Coming up on today's show:
- All 51 New York City Council members are up for reelection in November (as well as the Queens and Bronx DAs) and primary day is here. Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, reports on how early voting went, early turnout numbers, competitive races and which races are using ranked choice voting, plus listeners call in to share who they voted for.
- New Jersey was the first state in the country to mandate public schools teach climate change. Lauren Madden, professor of elementary science education and coordinator of the environmental sustainability education minor at The College of New Jersey, and Anya Kamenetz, longtime former NPR education reporter, advisor to the Aspen Institute and the author of several books including most recently The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, And Where We Go Now (Public Affairs, 2022), talk about how it's going so far, what is in the curriculum and how this has become another front in the school culture wars.
- Sam Roberts, obituaries reporter and former urban affairs correspondent at The New York Times where he hosts the podcasts "The Caucus” and “Only in New York" and host of CUNY-TV's “The New York Times Close Up”, talks about the life of New Yorker Richard Ravitch, who died Sunday. He helped save the city from bankruptcy in the 1970s, chaired the MTA and served as lieutenant governor of the state.
- Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, host of its new podcast Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal and the author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution (The New Press, 2022) now in paperback, talks about today's opinions from the Supreme Court as they work through the remaining cases from this term.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
