The Brian Lehrer Show

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander talks about his office's forthcoming audit of NYC's housing stock, issues in the city's Intensive Mobile Treatment (IMT) program for people with serious mental health conditions, his take on the city's first remote school snow day and more city news.

New York City Councilmember Susan Zhuang discusses public safety and quality education in her district. Topics include the need for cameras in schools, cleaner streets, addressing loud motorcycles, and celebrating Lunar New Year with a focus on community unity.

Listeners call in to share stories of their personal and professional "Super Bowls" - the non-football event they are most excited about, and professionally, the highest achievement in their industry.

Susan Page, USA Today Washington bureau chief and the author of Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power (Twelve, 2021) and the forthcoming The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters (Simon & Schuster, 2024), rounds up the latest news from the Biden White House, the campaign trail, and more national headlines.

Kai Wright, host and managing editor of Notes From America with Kai Wright and Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows, talks about how communities of color struggled with, and eventually reckoned with the HIV and AIDS crisis.

Errol Louis, political anchor of Spectrum NY1 News, host of Inside City Hall, New York Magazine columnist and host of the podcast You Decide, and Rich Barrabi, co-anchor of "Mornings on News 12" and host of "Power and Politics" on News 12 Long Island, recap News 12 Long Island's debate between Democrat Tom Suozzi and Republican Mazi Pilip, who are in a tight race for a special election to replace George Santos in Congress in New York's 3rd Congressional district, and discuss the major issues at play.

Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019,) offers analysis of the oral arguments held at the Supreme Court over Colorado's decision to disqualify Trump from the primary ballot.

Mark Anthony Neal, Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies and Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University, offers an abridged history of Black comedy as a tool for activism from Dick Gregory to the present.

This year's winners of the Lehrer Award for Community Well-Being focus their work on caring for the migrants arriving in NYC from the southern border. Nuala O'Doherty-Naranjo, attorney, community activist and the founder of the Jackson Heights Immigrant Center; Jesus Aguais, president of Aid for Life; and Power Malu, founder of Artists Athletes Activists, talk about their work connecting migrants with the services and the community they need.

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Down to the Wire in the NY-3 Special Election (First) | Kwame Alexander on Sharing the Poems (Starts at 43:19) | Black Comedy From Dick Gregory to the Present (Starts at 1:08:59) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.