Coming up on today’s show:
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Local Law 97 – which will require buildings in the city to limit carbon emissions – goes into effect next year. Rit Aggarwala, Chief Climate Officer and commissioner of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection, talks about the law and what it means for building owners and tenants.
When Wisconsin voters elected Janet Protasiewicz to the state’s Supreme Court, it was seen as a victory for democracy in a “democracy desert.” So why have Republicans moved to impeach her barely a month into her tenure? Dan Kaufman, journalist and author of The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018), discusses this development and offers context.
As New York Fashion Week wraps up this week, Vanessa Friedman, fashion director and chief fashion critic of The New York Times, talks about the annual production of glitzy shows and parties, what this fashion week tells us about the industry and about what we wear.
Carolina Hidalgo, senior producer for WNYC’s Radio Rookies, introduces the new class of Radio Rookies while Radio Rookie Fanta Kaba shares her story on how her family found stability in a NYCHA apartment and how residents are wary as public housing here in the city is changing.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
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