The Brian Lehrer Show
Summary: Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Snap Judgment, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin and many others. © WNYC Studios
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NYS Assembly Member Karim Camara (D-43) represents parts of Crown Heights, Lefferts Gardens, and East Flatbush. He is chair of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus and is also an ordained minister. Assemblyman Camara talks about budget negotiations in Albany and his caucus's efforts to direct money to education funding versus corporate tax cuts.
Dana Goldstein, a contributor to The Atlantic and fellow at The Nation Institute, unpacks a new study that found parental involvement in school and homework doesn't always improve kids' academic achievement. The study tracked almost 30 years of data, and found that only a few habits (out of the 63 it tracked) led to higher test scores: reading aloud to young children and talking about college to teenagers. The mostly useless stuff? Meeting with teachers, helping teenagers pick out high school classes, volunteering at school, observing classes and even homework help.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is now the author of A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power, about gender equality around the world. He'll discuss his push for women's rights and some of today's headlines.
With the state budget deadline looming, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, New York State Senator (D-35) and Democratic conference leader, discusses the process and her party's priorities, including pre-K funding and public campaign financing, and a new chance for the state Dream Act.
After months and months of rosy reports about ridership, reports last week show that Citi Bike is actually in big financial trouble. How did this happen? Kate Hinds, WNYC transportation reporter, and Andrea Bernstein, WNYC metro reporter and editor, discuss the numbers and how Citi Bike could be saved. When organizers rolled out CitiBike, there was a focus on local riders. Now they need tourists http://t.co/pGtPVLQ8dL pic.twitter.com/Re5v4wmLiW — Jody Avirgan (@jodyavirgan) March 21, 2014 .@AndreaWNYC reminds us that Citi Bike is the only bike share program in the country that doesn't have some mix of public funding. — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 25, 2014
Bob Mankoff, New Yorker Magazine cartoon editor, discusses his new book, How About Never--Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons. @BrianLehrer @NewYorker Besides the title, has to be fusilli pic.twitter.com/FHaf1hlNae — KO'D (@KODwrites) March 25, 2014 Our absolute, all-time favorite RT @MTM130: @BrianLehrer yeah, one of my favorites!! pic.twitter.com/JbrnqINLuw — Studio 360 (@Studio360show) March 26, 2014 @BrianLehrer @NewYorker Bad goldfish! My favorite. I don't even know why it's funny to me, but it is. pic.twitter.com/wUQBnetWUe — Jill (@RetroVee) March 25, 2014 BECAUSE THEY ARE DOGS! #NYercartoon @brianlehrer pic.twitter.com/G1CH3sXVik — Alana Casanova (@AlanaLlama) March 25, 2014 @BrianLehrer We have tons of New Yorker cartoons on our fridge, this is a favorite pic.twitter.com/Vm27HjL88H — Jessica Bowers (@MsFader) March 25, 2014 @BrianLehrer pic.twitter.com/qhUdzn7oKb — barbara thompson (@bthompson310) March 25, 2014 @BrianLehrer can a political reporter not have this one? pic.twitter.com/jn2SxMMRDT — Annie-Rose Strasser (@ARStrasser) March 25, 2014 @BrianLehrer yeah, one of my favorites!! pic.twitter.com/uLl19MQgdn — Mary Martin (@MTM130) March 25, 2014
Alexandra Stevenson, reporter for The New York Times, discusses hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman's quest to bring down the nutritional supplement company Herbalife, which he calls a pyramid scheme. Stevenson explains his questionable methods and how Latino advocacy groups got involved.
WQXR is collecting your gently used musical instruments and distributing them to schoolchildren in music classrooms in the area. Graham Parker, general manager of WQXR, explains how the instrument drive works as we take your calls about a musical instrument that changed your life.
Drawing on her own experience surviving having been sex-trafficked at age 14, Holly Austin Smith, advocate for human trafficking victims, talks about the cultural forces that make young men and women susceptible to exploitation in her book, Walking Prey: How America's Youth Are Vulnerable to Sex Slavery (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Yesterday at Riverside Church, Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a speech on education where he admitted that he “didn’t measure up” in explaining his stance or charter schools. On the Brian Lehrer Show, de Blasio clarified that he "didn't explain the criteria" for his co-location decisions clearly enough. The mayor stood firm on the decisions, however, saying that "the Bloomberg administration was rushing...and they were willing to cut some corners" in making decisions about co-location at the end of 2013, and that there will be "a moratorium" on co-locations until a new set of criteria is implemented. When asked about Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy network -- which lost some facilities -- de Blasio insisted that "we are accommodating" those students. On the nature of the charter school debate in general, de Blasio insisted that charters continue to be part of the larger school network, and that "some of the innovations...will work" in the larger system, though not those funded by resources not available to the DOE. "Charters are supposed to be uplifting [to] the entire system," said the mayor. "Once we get the co-location process right, there's going to be a process for charters to have new chances to grow." On @BrianLehrer now, @BillDeBlasio highlights two major accomplishments so far: stop & frisk reform & paid sick leave bill for 500k+ NYers. — David Moore (@ppolitics) March 24, 2014 "I'm going to make this a personal crusade," @BilldeBlasio tells @BrianLehrer of teacher recruitment/retention — Celeste Katz (@CelesteKatzNYC) March 24, 2014
Azi Paybarah, political reporter for Capital New York, discusses the headlines in local news - including the annual Inner Circle show from this past weekend, which has been satirizing City Hall since 1923. "It's possible," @azi on whether Mayor de Blasio softened charter school rhetoric to get more money from Gov Cuomo for pre-k @BrianLehrer — Beth Fertig (@bethfertig) March 24, 2014
Paul Ryan recently made remarks about "culture in our inner cities" that sparked a firestorm over race, responsibility, and the GOP's framing of economic issues as they begin to think about both this Fall's midterms and 2016's presidential election. Maggie Haberman, senior political reporter for Politico, discusses the Ryan remarks, her reporting on Hillary Clinton, and the week's national political headlines.
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Matt Katz on New Bridgegate Emails (First) | A Scientific Approach to Parenting (Starts at 22:50) | Caffeine Conundrums (Starts at 49:30) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.
Critic Ted Gioia recently wrote a piece in the Daily Beast saying that modern music critics are too obsessed with "lifestyle" reporting. Jody Rosen, music critic for New York Magazine, wrote a response, in which he defends modern criticism -- at least, the good stuff.
Capital New York's Sally Goldenberg discusses her reporting on the city's plan to revamp the restaurant grading system, and Andrew Hawkins, a reporter at Crain's New York Business, talks about the new parks commissioner, which the mayor is expected to announce today. Plus, Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, talks about the financial difficulties facing Citi Bike.
