Brad Lander; California's Lawsuit Against Big Oil; Ending Child Poverty; Niche Neighborhood Drama

Coming up on today's show:

• Brad Lander, New York City Comptroller, talks about scrutinizing the city's contract with DocGo for administering services to migrants, why he sued Fox on behalf of NYC pension funds and more local news.
• Earlier this month, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a lawsuit against five major oil companies seeking compensation for damages caused by climate change. Blanca Begert, California climate reporter for Politico, where she anchors the California Climate newsletter, explains what's behind the lawsuit and how Governor Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta will proceed.
• Through the story of three North Philadelphia children and drawing on his research, Nikhil Goyal, sociologist and policymaker who served as senior policy advisor on education and children for Chairman Senator Bernie Sanders on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Committee on the Budget and the author of Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty (Metropolitan Books, 2023), shows how poverty limits the lives of U.S. children and offers policy solutions.
• Listeners call in to share the drama from their neighborhoods—whether it's over pickleball court space, pet owners not doing their part to keep the streets clean or other local issues..

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.