Closing Rikers
Max & Murphy: Borough Jails Plan Enters Key Phase
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‘The plan that is in progress right now is the right plan, it’s one that is viable, it’s moving.’
buses
Max & Murphy: Leading Advocate for Transit Sizes Up MTA’s Progress
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John Raskin talked about the big problem that unites all of the other challenges facing the subway, buses and commuter trains: The lack of accountability in the transit system as it now exists.
board of elections
Max & Murphy: The Queens DA Race and the State of Police Reform
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The weekly WBAI public affairs show gets an update on the recount in the Queens Democratic district attorney primary and checks in with a top advocacy group about where criminal-justice reform stands.
Bushwick
Max & Murphy: Reynoso Sizes Up Bushwick’s Past, Present & Future
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The discussion about development, housing, rezoning and gentrification in New York City is sometimes painted as a tug of war between those who embrace change and those who resist it, hopelessly. In Bushwick, it’s clear that picture is inaccurate.
civil liberties
Max & Murphy: The State of NYC’s Civil Liberties in 2019
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New York Civil Liberties Union executive director Donna Lieberman joined WBAI’s Max & Murphy Show on Wednesday for a special Independence Day Eve discussion of where civil liberties stand in New York City.
2020
Max & Murphy: Albany Democrats on Rent, Marijuana, Cuomo, De Blasio and More
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Ben and Jarrett talk to Democratic State Sens. Liz Krueger and Zellnor Myrie about the landmark 2019 session. But first, they break down the previous day’s Queens district attorney primary and Bill de Blasio’s debut on the presidential debate stage.
Agenda 2019
Max & Murphy: State’s New Climate Law is Huge Move, And a Compromise
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New York State legislators on Tuesday passed one of the most ambitious pieces of environmental legislation seen in the United States: a bill that sets the Empire State on a path to net zero greenhouse-gas emissions.
Max & Murphy: Sizing Up the Race for Queens DA
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The 2019 Democratic primary for Queens district attorney is anything but drowsy, because it embodies the yawning gap between yesterday’s mainstream thinking on criminal justice and today’s.
2021
Max & Murphy: Eric Adams Says Speaker & Comptroller Are Both Wrong on Campaign Finance
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The beep weighed in on the beef between two of his likely 2021 rivals and also talked about borough jails, NYCHA develpment and the Queens DA’s race. Plus, a look at end-of-session politics in Albany.
GOVERNMENT
Max & Murphy: A Hard Look at Vision Zero
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The reduction of traffic deaths in New York City under his Vision Zero program is one of Mayor de Blasio’s talking points as he runs for president. But while deaths have fallen, an advocate and a Councilmember agree that progress has slowed.