Brian Lehrer Weekend: Gov. Kathy Hochul; Measures on Tipping and Rat Control; George Takei

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🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. New York Governor Kathy Hochul breaks down the state budget and WNYC/Gothamist's Jon Campbell offers analysis (First) | Council member Shaun Abreu on proposed changes to tipping on delivery apps—and a plan to curb the city's rat population (Starts at 32:15) | George Takei discusses his debut picture book, an age-appropriate personal history a childhood in Japanese American incarceration camps during WWII (Starts at 1:14:35) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

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0:00.0	Hi, Brian Lairer here.
0:01.3	Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend,
0:03.0	three of our favorite segments from the week,
0:05.0	packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.
0:07.6	So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m.
0:11.3	on WNYC on WNYC.
0:36.7	Good morning again, everyone.
0:38.4	Governor Kathy Hokel joins us now with details of what she says is a conceptual agreement on the new state budget that could have massive implications for affordable housing in New York State and a lot of other things.
0:50.5	We have about 10 minutes with the governor today.
0:52.9	So Governor Hokel, always good of you to come on with us.
0:55.2	Welcome back to WNYC.
0:57.5	Thanks, Brian.
0:58.3	Looking forward to our conversation.
1:00.2	A couple of things about housing to start.
1:02.3	All I've seen so far is this language like preliminary agreement and conceptual agreement.
1:09.5	So can you give us any specifics, first of all, of the so-called
1:13.3	good cause eviction rent increase limits or the tax breaks that developers could get as part of a
1:20.7	deal for building how much affordable housing? Well, Brian, as you mentioned, this is still a
1:26.3	conceptual agreement. All those specific details will be out, you know, within a matter of mentioned, this is still a conceptual agreement.
1:31.4	All those specific details will be out within a matter of days, I believe.
1:49.8	But what that does is when I had that press conference, it signals that there is a handshake deal between myself, the speaker or the assembly and the majority leader of the Senate, that we're prepared to have them go back to their conferences and then bring to us, we'll settle on the final details. So all that will be out there, but I will say, we realize, and everyone talks about this shortage of housing crisis and the fact that New York
1:56.8	City has a 1.4% vacancy rate, I knew the only way out, an economists know the only way out,
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