NYC Has a Budget Deal; Rent Guidelines Board Vote; New Nuclear Plant Upstate; Supreme Court's 'Blockbuster' Term; Previewing the Ranked Choice Voting Results

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 1, 2025
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On today's show:

  • Justin Brannan, New York City Councilmember (District 43 - Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach), chair of the Council Finance Committee, explains what's in the city budget for the next fiscal year, including a pilot program for free child care for children under 2 for low-income families, an extension of library hours at ten branches, and more.
  • David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, reports on what happened at the Rent Guidelines Board meeting Monday night, where members of the board are deciding how much to raise the rent on rent-regulated apartments. 
  • Patrick McGeehan, reporter for The New York Times covering infrastructure in New York City and surrounding area, talks about Gov. Hochul's plan for a new nuclear plant upstate.
  • Ruth Marcus, contributor to The New Yorker, former columnist for The Washington Post and the author of Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover (Simon & Schuster, 2019), talks about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and takes stock of the Supreme Court's latest blockbuster decisions.
  • Right before the full results of New York City's ranked choice voting in the mayoral primary is released, Steven Romalewski, Director of the CUNY Mapping Service in the Center for Urban Research at CUNY's Graduate Center, talks about his predictions based on the first-choice data.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

 

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