Mayoral Campaign Update; Vaccine Volunteers; Long Island Police Hiring Practices Under Scrutiny; Ask the Mayor
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 28, 2021
Coming up on today's show:
- With less than a month to go before the New York City primary elections, listeners call in to talk about who's on their ranked choice list, and Elizabeth Kim, senior editor for Gothamist, talks about the latest news from the campaign trail.
- Mitra Kalita, co-founder of URL Media and CEO and publisher of Epicenter-NYC, and Maria Peterson, Montgomery County, Maryland high school teacher and member of the Vaccine Hunter group, talk about how vaccine outreach volunteers across the country are banding together to trade tips on how best to reach unvaccinated communities and people and get more shots in arms.
- Jim Baumbach, Newsday investigative reporter, talks about his reporting that Black and Latino applicants are much less likely to be hired as Nassau or Suffolk County police officers.
- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
