Brian Lair on WNYC, where in election season now early voting continues in New York

and New Jersey. Connecticut does not have early voting, though they will starting next

year under new law. We talked about some of the New York races with Bridget Bergen last

week. Now we'll check in on some of the hot races and issues in New Jersey with WNYC's

Nancy Solomon, and though the entire state legislature is up for election right now,

the most interesting and consequential races might be for your local school boards. Some

of them being caught up in the culture wars. Plus we might get a hint of some key 2024

congressional races for next year with control of Congress, as we were talking about a little

bit with Congressman Himes, being at stake next year and how they might be run. We'll also

talk about a big windmill manufacturer pulling out of a plan to build two wind farms off

the Jersey shore just yesterday, despite the legislature granting them a billion dollars

in tax credits. Governor Murphy called the decision to withdraw outrageous. Hi, Nancy,

welcome back to the show. Hi, Brian. Can we do the wind farms first? What was the Danish

company Orsted planning and what happened yesterday? Yeah, this was huge. Orsted is the

largest producer of offshore wind in the world. And so New Jersey, I think, was feeling,

you know, the Murphy administration was feeling pretty good about their contracts to have the

biggest wind developer in the world doing their offshore wind. And they had just like

announced, I mean, we've seen lots of other projects that are struggling up and down the

east coast with costs and inflation, but there was no hint that this was coming. So they

announced that they're pulling out. They have two projects. One of them has already been

permitted, which is a huge thing because it takes upwards of five years, even a little

bit more, to get the permits pushed through both federally and the state permits. So they

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