Below are archive episodes of City Limits and Gotham Gazette’s weekly city politics and policy podcast, which ran for five years before co-host Jarrett Murphy departed in 2021 to pursue a career in nursing. To listen to current episodes of the Max Politics Podcast, visit Gotham Gazette’s website here.
It was cold on Wednesday when Christine Quinn—CEO of the homeless-services organization WIN—spoke to the Max & Murphy Show on WBAI. For the former Council speaker and 2013 mayoral candidate, the temperature was an important point of reference.
‘Mistakes were made early, they were made often, they were repeated, they were compounded.’
Two leading advocates say the proposed changes to police misconduct investigations, the land-use process and budget rules are substantive if not sweeping—while ranked-choice voting represents a significant change to how democracy operates in New York.
The three candidates running for public advocate provide different rationales for how to use the office. The common thread is that each sees potential for the office to make a difference, if big changes are made.
History offers little guidance for how Bill de Blasio should navigate his remaining time in office now that his presidential campaign is done.
For all its positives, the plan doesn’t answer all the questions facing the MTA over its finances or ability to achieve its ambitions.
‘Fusion voting should exist because if we want to have legitimate third parties that people can feel comfortable voting for and not playing the spolier, then it gives us the option.’
‘For the first time in a decade, the DHS shelter census is flat and actually trending downward,’ Steven Banks, the commissioner of the Department of Social Services, told the Max & Murphy Show.
Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism and Intelligence John Miller says the threat to New York has evolved from spectacular plots directed by large ‘terrorist bureaucracies’ to lone-wolf attacks across a broad spectrum of beliefs.
Yes, the School Diversity Advisory Group called for ending Gifted & Talented programs. But, as a group member and a Council education leader told the Max & Murphy Show, its recommendations don’t start or end there.
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