It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

On today's show, we'll welcome New York City's acting sanitation commissioner, Javier

Lahan.

So many New Yorkers have complained about garbage piling up on the streets, right, since the big snow and ice storm.

And in some cases, complained about how the snow was cleared as well.

And maybe even about how some of your neighbors are not doing their part to keep things as cleaned out as possible.

We'll hear the commissioner's explanation and discuss

what comes next as the big melt inevitably begins. Also, the new mayor of Jersey City, James

Solomon today, after the outgoing mayor, Steve Fullop yesterday. And all of it, producer Jordan

Loff introduces the new get lit with all of it

newsletter it's a newsletter for book lovers that'll be a fun segment this will include a reveal

of the upcoming get lit with all of a group reads that you'll be able to join in on but we start here

one of the biggest issues for the midterm elections will be the affordability of health care.

You'll remember that the government shut down late last year was largely over the Democrats,

wanting to continue those extended subsidies for Affordable Care Act or Obamacare insurance policies,

while the Republicans wanted the subsidies to end. The Republicans won that

issue, remember, meaning the disputed subsidies expired. Now, government data released in late January

indicates the number of Americans insured through Obamacare has dropped by more than a million

people. So with health care costs looming as a midterms issue

that seems to favor Democrats,

President Trump last week announced a new program

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