MTA Chair Lieber on Congestion Pricing and More; What Direction Will a New Pope Take the Catholic Church?; Job Losses and Opportunities; New in Central Park
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 24, 2025
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Coming up on today's show:
- John "Janno" Lieber, chair and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), talks about the MTA's fight with the federal government over congestion pricing, how the tolling program is going, the Trump administration's takeover of the Penn Station revamp and more transit news.
- Daniel Rober, associate professor and department chair of the Catholic Studies department at Sacred Heart University, talks about the leading contenders to be the next pope, the fraught process in the Vatican and the different directions the next leader of the world's Catholics might take the church.
- Layla O'Kane, a senior director at Opportunity@Work, and Cole Napper, vice president of People Analytics at Lightcast, a labor market analytics company, talk about the latest data on job losses, economic mobility and career opportunities for 'STARs', workers skilled through alternative routes.
- Betsy Smith, president and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy, talks about Saturday's opening of the revamped Harlem Meer area of the park, plus other news.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
