It's the Brian Larishow on WNIC. Good morning, everyone. And thanks to Arun Vanacapal for filling

in yesterday when I was off atoning for my sins. That would take weeks, really. But they

only give us one day a year in Judaism. Of course, maybe God was making everyone in the

tri-state area atone for our sins for three days, with the constant wind and rain of biblical

proportions we've been living with. I especially feel bad for parents of young kids. I have to say,

having been in this position, many of whom had a three-day weekend off from school, no less,

and parents had to be the entertainment committee. You know how that goes. But you did it. Now your

moral slate is clean and good to go, probably for another year. Speaking of the public schools,

when New York City Chancellor David Banks was on the show this month, he acknowledged the

challenge of preparing five to 15% budget cuts, like all city agencies will have to do under Mayor

Adam's recent order, given the looming budget deficits, the chancellor said this. It's going to

probably affect every aspect of what we do. So it's not any specific program. I can't imagine any

program that's not going to be affected by cuts of this size. And so we will know the specifics

more in the coming weeks. But everything is on the table. Chancellor Banks here on September 12th,

he's supposed to submit details to the mayor's office of what he would cut by November. The mayor,

as you know, is hanging that $12 billion projected deficit over the next several years on city

services for the 100,000 plus asylum seekers who have come since last year. So now we're going to

talk to the New York City controller whose job it is to oversee the city's finances as a point

of reference on where he's coming from. Brad Lander wrote an opinion piece for the Nation magazine

this month called Don't Listen to Eric Adams, Immigrants Make New York City. We'll also talk to

controller Lander about other things, including his statement yesterday on the tentative settlement

of the writer strike. And did you know he's suing Fox News? Controller Lander, always good

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