Brian Lair on WNYC.

All right, just a few more texts on the state of the city, because there are so many,

and they're so good, and I can't resist.

Listen to rights, regarding the administrative burden on police,

nobody's debating the administrative burden placed on nurses and doctors by the medical legal

framework.

The listener writes, I would say the state of the city is compassion.

This call-in shows how compassionate New Yorkers are.

And one last one, the state of New York City is changing, always changing.

Some will be happy with those changes and others will not.

That is a constant.

All right.

Now we turn the page.

Now we'll look at the high-stakes special election taking place to replace George Santos in Congress,

in which voting is already underway if you have a mail-in ballot.

The in-person voting begins next Saturday, February 3rd.

The district in Queens and Nassau County is very swingy, Democratic for a long time, Republican

recently, Biden for president, Santos for Congress. We've been discussing the race in the local

context since the candidates were chosen. Today we'll look at it more in the national election

year context of how it might be a bellwether for what crucial suburban swing

district voters care about nationwide as the parties compete to not just win the presidency,

but also control of Congress. The candidates are Democrat Tom Swazi, who held the seat

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