Brian Lear on WNC, now as we usually do on Wednesdays after Mayor Adams Tuesday

news conferences, our lead Eric Adams reporter Elizabeth Kim joins us with clips and analysis,

but today we have kind of a special edition because our Albany reporter

John Campbell is joining too. Why? Because yesterday both Mayor Adams and Governor

Hockel,

just to make the heads explode of reporters like us,

gave their annual budget addresses on the same day.

And if that sounds bureaucratic and wonky, oh, budget addresses,

remember the budget is where the rubber of nice political speeches

meets the road of what actually gets funded

and who gets helped or hurt, right?

And most of you know about the tensions around the budget recently,

especially in the city, with the cuts to libraries

and so many other things that the mayor had imposed caused he said by the overwhelming new

expenses from so many asylum seekers coming all at once well he's actually

dialing some of those cuts and that

for Governor Hockel, she's got her own budget issues, but here's what she says

her budget can accomplish.

This budget proves that you can have fiscal discipline and that can coexist with people-driven progressive policies.

Progressive policies like rebalancing which districts get how much state education funding already

causing a backlash in some school districts that will explain.

Hi Liz and John welcome to our Wednesday meet-up.

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