Below are archive episodes of City Limits and Gotham Gazette’s weekly city politics and policy podcast, which ran for five years before co-host Jarrett Murphy departed in 2021 to pursue a career in nursing. To listen to current episodes of the Max Politics Podcast, visit Gotham Gazette’s website here.
The Brooklyn Beeps chalks the city’s troubles up to dysfunction. Winning the race will require defining that term, and outlining a plan to defeat it.
Brooklyn’s Mark Treyger wants the city to offer more in-person schooling to young and disabled kids who fare especially poorly in remote learning. The temporary shutdown offers a chance to adopt such a plan, he says.
Manhattan’s Liz Krueger says bars and gyms must close if the city is to avoid another catastrophic experience with COVID-19.
Zach Iscol and Carlos Menchaca are part of the growing and diverse field hoping to win the June 2021 Democratic primary.
At least six Congressional seats and at least a dozen State Senate districts are in play, Jay Jacobs tells the Max & Murphy Show.
There are four upcoming meetings for the public to weigh in on what needs to happen to reshape the NYPD.
The only thing worse than a serious illness is a bad diagnosis. And that is what President Trump has offered in his size-up of the U.S. voting system.
Andrew Gounardes turned one of the last red seats in New York city blue two years ago. He could face a tough race trying to hang on to it.
The head of the union that recently voted ‘no confidence’ in Mayor de Blasio’s leadership talks about how the resumption of in-person school is going, and Manhattan BP Gale Brewer discuss what it will take for her borough to mount a comeback.
The mayor’s intense desire to provide in-person learning led the city to underestimate the obstacles to bringing kids back.
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