The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM / 2 May '23

09/05/2023 54 min
The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM / 2 May '23

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Episode Synopsis

—In our first segment, we spoke with Lee Ziesche, spokesperson for Public Power New York, about climate legislation recently enacted in New York that greatly expands the ability of the public sector to produce renewable energy. Advocates are hailing it as the first state-level Green New Deal. But, will Gov. Kathy Hochul seek to undermine an initiative she was cornered into supporting?

—Sounds from May Day '23: Union square rally and Starbucks workers confront management

—NY Gov. Kathy Hochul delayed the passage of NY's annual state budget by a month to win rollbacks in the state's 2019 bail reform law. The Indy's criminal justice correspondent Ted Hamm talks about what the impact could be of these punitive new measures.

—Tess Cohen has been both a prosecutor and a defense attorney. Now, she is running in the Democratic primary for Bronx District Attorney against incumbent Darcel Clark. Cohen has vowed to shrink the footprint of the criminal justice system in NYC's poorest borough.