Meet the Candidate: Tom Suozzi; Implementing Local Law 97; Middle East Update; How 'Nones' Find Community Without Religion
The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 6, 2024
On today's show:
- Tom Suozzi, former congressman (D NY3), talks about his campaign to reclaim his seat in Congress in the special election on February 13.
- New York City’s landmark emissions reductions law took effect earlier this month. Rohit T. Aggarwala, chief climate officer and commissioner of NYC's Department of Environmental Protection, Simon Mugo, program manager of NYC Accelerator, and Andrew Chintz, financing specialist at NYC Accelerator, which provides free guidance to meet energy efficiency upgrades for buildings, talk about the implementation process so far, how owners can work to retrofit their buildings and what tools are available to them.
- Missy Ryan, Washington Post reporter covering the Pentagon, military issues and national security, talks about the latest on the Israel/Gaza war and the Biden response to the attack on U.S. troops in Jordan.
- A recent Pew Research poll found that 28% of the United States' population of "adults are religiously unaffiliated, describing themselves as atheists, agnostics or 'nothing in particular.”' Furthermore, "'nones' tend to vote less often, do less volunteer work in their communities, and follow public affairs at lower rates than religiously affiliated people do." Listeners who fall into the category of "nones" share how they find community without religion in their lives.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
