In their book, "New York's New Edge" co-authors David Halle and Elisabeth Tiso discuss new and innovative developments in New York City: the High Line; Chelsea: the world's largest art gallery district; Gansevoort Market; the Whitney Museum, and more.
Major litigator, a former Assistant US Attorney for New York's Southern District, tv host, author of "The Mother Court" James D. Zirin describes his early attraction to the courtroom and to the law, and the famous cases to come before the Mother Court.
Ian Vandewalker of the Brennan Center for Justice's Democracy program has produced a number of studies on campaign money - particularly "dark money" and its effect on U.S. politics. The 2014 campaign was the most expensive mid-term election in history.
Ed Rollins, Hofstra Univ., Sr. Presidential Fellow, considers the effects of the historic Republican win in the 2014 mid-term elections. The Republican party's wings need to deal with tax reform, immigration, the middle class and 2016 election.
Democrates: Governor Cuomo, Attorney General Schneiderman, New York State Comptroller DiNapoli won statewide elections by substantial to huge margins, but not in the Senate. What were the issues; who are the winners and losers - upstate and downstate?
The ARC Tunnel (Access to the Region's Core) leads the conversation discussion of transportation, with Robert Paaswell, CCNY Institute of Urban Systems. New rail tunnel between NJ & NY began in 2009; cancelled in 2010 by Gov. Chris Christie.
Robert Paaswell, CCNY Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, director of the CUNY Institute of Urban Systems calls the MTA a success: 8 million trips a day; 6 million+ riders. But, according to Prof. Paaswell, it needs to modernize.
New York City Police have successfully reduced crime and improved public safety. The Citizens Crime Commission, founded in 1979, looks to new ideas to further reduce criminal activity. President Richard Aborn, reviews some of CCC's initiatives.
Ed Rollins, adviser to four presidents, manager of President Reagan's landslide reelection campaign and now, Senior Presidential Fellow at Hofstra University discusses the 2014 and 2016 elections and the poisonous stalemate in Congress.
Award winning documentary filmmaker, creator of "If Knishes Could Talk," about the NY accent, Heather Quinlan has taken on the Miracle Team: the '86 Mets - a gritty band of outlaws; perhaps, a metaphor for 1980's New York.
Richard Murphy, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, the Philippines and Syria defines and clarifies participants-Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and terms-Sunni, Shia, Sharia, Caliphate to understand the struggle in the middle east.
Chair Marc V. Shaw and Executive Director Michael Jacobson lead the recently created CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance, applying "a data-driven approach to the challenges and opportunities confronting government."
Wise Guys & Gal: Errol Louis, Azi Paybarah, and Liz Benjamin, review the recent Democratic primary; upstate's reaction to downstate's initiatives; the Working Families Party, the Independence Party...and more.
Compt. DiNapoli manages many of our pensions: $176.2 billion worth; he reviews the fiscal health of NYS and NYC budgets. He's more than a little concerned about the "corruption eruption" in government. Some say he's the "nicest guy in Albany!" But, is he?
CUNY TV welcomes James B. Milliken, newly appointed Chancellor of The City University of New York. After nearly a decade as president of the University of Nebraska, Chancellor Milliken has returned to NYC, where he attended law school and married.
Ian Vandewalker, counsel to the Brennan Center for Justice-Democracy Program discusses the Roberts Court: their striking down 7 campaign finance laws since 2006, and most recently McCutcheon, and the influence of "dark money."
James Parrott, of the Fiscal Policy Institute and Charles Brecher, of the Citizens Budget Commission, discuss the complexities and the uncertainties of the New York City budget.
To the Irish immigrant haunted by the potato famine and bigotry of the Know Nothing movement, Tammany Hall's support of the poor was a godsend. Terry Golway, author of "Machine Made" provides a revisionist view of Tammany Hall. A great read!
"The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences" is the effort of scholars and specialists in the hope that it "could make a significant contribution to public understanding and to improving the justice system."
Richard Ravitch, MTA chairman, baseball labor negotiator, Lieutenant Governor, NYS Budget Task Force co-chair, after 6 decades in public service is now an author. His well received memoir, "So Much To Do" is both NY's past and a guide to the future.
NYU professor, Pedro Noguera, author of 10 books and numerous articles, continues his conversation with host Doug Muzzio about the state of education in the US, and what needs to be done to promote programs to improve public education.
Pedro Noguera, prolific author, NYU professor discusses Common Core, Race to the Top, No Child Left Behind indicating that there are no short cuts; gimmicks; silver bullets when promoting programs to improve US public education and the future of students.
Ed Rollins, Republican campaign consultant and advisor and Hank Sheinkopf, Democratic political campaign advisor at every level of government discuss the 2016 election and candidates, a divided electorate, and the exceedingly high cost of elections.
Scott Stringer, New York City's Comptroller, talks about the responsibilities of his office, describing it as a counterweight to the Mayor
37% of NY's population are immigrants; 55%, when their children are included; 168 "home languages" are spoken in New York's public schools. Nancy Foner, author of "One Out of Three" discusses NY's contemporary immigrant population.
Ron Kuby, criminal defense/civil rights attorney, co-host of "Curtis & Kuby" on 77 WABC radio, talks about wrongful conviction cases in NYC in the 1980's. Crack, the upswing in crime created an urgency to solve cases, jailing many who were innocent.
Mayor John Lindsay (1966-1973) "... was a controversial figure...aligning himself with racial minorities...poor people who had been left on the sidelines of politics" says Joseph Viteritti in "Summer in the City: John Lindsay, NY, and the American Dream."
James Parrott, Fiscal Policy Institute, on Gov. Cuomo's 2014-15 budget: his concerns-impact from unspecified cuts; the effect on health care system funding from uncertainty surrounding the Federal Medicaid Waiver; the freeze to state aid to municipalities
Richard Ravitch, former NY Lieutenant Governor, and chair of the MTA (1979 to 1983), talks about the MTA's problems and prospects, such as new revenue sources, ideas proposed many years ago: tollls on bridges, increased gas taxes and car registration.
Remember "progressive radio," or "black radio" or, even American radio? Is American radio dying - if so why? and what will take its place? Just a few of the questions asked of Mark Riley, 30+ years radio veteran, broadcast journalist, on-air personality.
