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Summertime blues: What’s next for NYC?
You Decide with Errol Louis - July 11, 2024 08:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsWhen it comes to local politics, it’s already been a sticky summer. From congestion pricing being put on hold to the 2025 mayoral race already heating up, there’s been plenty of major news in New York City beyond the fight for the White House. This week, NY1’s Errol Louis was joined by two jo...
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Jacob Kornbluh: A political awakening in the Jewish community
You Decide with Errol Louis - July 03, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsThe Jewish community in New York was devastated by the surprise attacks that took place in Israel on Oct. 7. With over 1.3 million Jewish residents, New York City has the largest Jewish population outside of Israel. As the Israel-Hamas war continues, the rise in hate crimes and antisemitism has ...
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Bruce Ratner: Stopping cancer when it’s still curable
You Decide with Errol Louis - June 27, 2024 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsEarly detection of cancer remains the single-best way to combat a disease that is the second-leading killer in the world. But many of the resources in the fight against cancer are devoted to relatively ineffective late-stage treatments. Bruce Ratner, known by many New Yorkers for his real estate...
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Karen DeWitt: Reflecting on a decades-long career covering New York politics
You Decide with Errol Louis - June 20, 2024 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsKaren DeWitt has been covering the statehouse since 1986. She joined the press corps at a time when very few women were in the industry, and quickly became a trusted voice on New York public radio, covering multiple governors, budgets, scandals, a pandemic and more. Recently, she announced that ...
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Marisa Holmes: Demonstrating history
You Decide with Errol Louis - June 13, 2024 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsProtesting is American as apple pie; it’s right there in the First Amendment. Regardless of what side of the aisle they are on, many Americans at some point in their lives have taken to the streets. Most recently, pro-Palestinian student protesters set up encampments at colleges across the count...
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Jackie Bray: Preventing a storm of mass shootings
You Decide with Errol Louis - June 06, 2024 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsTwo years after a racially motivated mass shooting killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, Errol spoke with Jackie Bray, the first female commissioner of the State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services. Bray joined NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss a new task force that w...
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Michael Waldman: 6 to 3 - How the Supreme Court is dividing America
You Decide with Errol Louis - May 30, 2024 08:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsFrom overturning the constitutional right to abortion to loosening long-standing gun laws, the Supreme Court ended one of its most historic and tumultuous terms in 2022. Breaking it all down is legal scholar Michael Waldman, author of “The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America.” ...
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‘Gridlock’ Sam Schwartz: 50 years in the making, congestion pricing is fast approaching
You Decide with Errol Louis - May 23, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsMore than 50 years ago, an early form of congestion pricing almost came to New York City when Mayor John Lindsay attempted to charge drivers for crossing the East River bridges into Manhattan. While Lindsay’s push died in court, one of his chief planners, Sam Schwartz, has been stuck in city tra...
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Live from N.Y.: The life, legacy and near-presidential candidacy of Mario Cuomo
You Decide with Errol Louis - May 16, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsBuilding on the success of NY1’s documentary about the career of Mario Cuomo, NY1 and Hunter College’s Roosevelt House held an in-depth discussion about the former governor that was moderated by Errol Louis. Errol’s panelists were Mary Ann Crotty, Cuomo’s former director of state operations; Har...
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Dan Barry: The genius of Jimmy Breslin
You Decide with Errol Louis - May 09, 2024 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsFew people have had more of an impact on modern journalism than Jimmy Breslin. Breslin was a Pulitzer Prize Award-winning New York journalist and author who rose to fame in the 1960s, with columns that attracted millions of readers. Breslin displayed an unrivaled mastery at deadline journalism, ...
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Norman Siegel: A lifetime of protecting the First Amendment
You Decide with Errol Louis - May 02, 2024 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsNorman Siegel has been a civil right and civil liberties lawyer in New York City for over 50 years, spending a significant portion of his career defending free speech, often to his own detriment. The pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and colleges across the country have highlighted...
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Zephyr Teachout: Protecting kids from online danger
You Decide with Errol Louis - April 25, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsAn increase in teen depression and mental health disorders over the last decade has largely been attributed to the widespread adoption of the smartphone by adolescents. Parents are obsessively worrying about screen time and the effects it could have on their children. One such parent is Zephyr...
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Basil Seggos: New York’s environmental defender is stepping down
You Decide with Errol Louis - April 18, 2024 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsFor more than eight years, Basil Seggos had led the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation, trying to help New York in its transition away from fossil fuels. Now leaving office, Seggos joined NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss New York’s pivotal 2019 climate law and his own tenure with two d...
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Harry Siegel: A column on subway crime sparks an online attack by the NYPD
You Decide with Errol Louis - April 11, 2024 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsAfter criticizing police strategy aimed at combatting subway crime, New York Daily News columnist Harry Siegel found himself under attack online by the NYPD. The mayor later defended police brass for going after Siegel and the police commanders doubled down on their harsh words in several interv...
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Chris Norwood: A new combat mission against diabetes
You Decide with Errol Louis - April 04, 2024 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsWith diabetes continuing to disproportionately affect the poor and people of color, the Bronx nonprofit agency Health People is launching a new campaign against the disease. Chris Norwood, the group’s founder and executive director, joined NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss their new education effort ...
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Eric Klinenberg: Following seven lives in ‘the year that changed everything’
You Decide with Errol Louis - March 28, 2024 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsTrying to make sense of one of the most pivotal years in American history, scholar Eric Klinenberg decided to focus on 2020 by using seven New Yorkers as his lens. With social unrest, economic turbulence and a presidential election as his backdrop, Klinenberg tells a story that is still far fr...
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Cannabis at the crossroads — A live discussion
You Decide with Errol Louis - March 21, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsRecently, NY1’s Errol Louis moderated a panel discussion, hosted by Vital City and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, on New York’s rocky rollout of legalized cannabis — examining what policies and practices are needed to create a viable market moving forward. Louis was ...
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Elizabeth Holtzman: A pioneer looks back and ahead to our political future
You Decide with Errol Louis - March 14, 2024 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsFew women have had a bigger impact on New York City politics than Elizabeth Holtzman. A Brooklyn native, Holtzman embarked on a political career over 50 years ago. She was an aide to Mayor John Lindsay in the late 60s and then became the youngest woman at the time ever elected to Congress at 31 ...
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Tricia Romano: How the Village Voice revolutionized journalism
You Decide with Errol Louis - March 07, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsThe Village Voice is widely considered being America’s first alt weekly newspaper. Started in 1955 by a small group of writers and editors that included Norman Mailer, the radical paper changed journalism. For six decades, the Voice covered politics, news and culture with a blend of energy and b...
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Terry Golway: Was La Guardia our greatest mayor?
You Decide with Errol Louis - February 29, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsFighting for the rights of immigrants and the impoverished during the Great Depression, Fiorello La Guardia was considered “America’s mayor” by millions of New Yorkers during his 12 years in office. In a new book about La Guardia, journalist and historian Terry Golway looks at the many political...
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Michael Beschloss: What’s at stake in 2024?
You Decide with Errol Louis - February 22, 2024 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsThere are a little over nine months until the 60th presidential election in November. As the primaries wrap up, it remains clear that it will be a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Michael Beschloss is an American historian specializing in the United States...
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Dr. Uché Blackstock: Tackling racism in our health care system
You Decide with Errol Louis - February 15, 2024 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsRacism often ensures that Black Americans get worse results than other groups when they visit the doctor or an emergency room. It not only affects patients: only 2% of physicians in the U.S. are Black women. Dr. Uché Blackstock is trying to level the playing field. A New York-based physician, Bl...
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Allan Lichtman: The best forecaster of presidential elections for 40 years
You Decide with Errol Louis - February 08, 2024 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsWith the presidential race already underway, NY1’s Errol Louis decided to have a candid conversation with Allan Lichtman, an acclaimed historian who has devised a successful system that has — with one exception — correctly predicted the winner of the last ten presidential elections. Lichtman d...
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Scott Stringer: Is New York City ready for his second act?
You Decide with Errol Louis - February 01, 2024 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsScott Stringer spent three decades in New York politics before badly losing in the Democratic primary for mayor in 2021. But a few weeks ago, with Mayor Eric Adams facing low poll numbers, the former city comptroller announced he was exploring another run for mayor. Stringer joined NY1’s Err...
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State of the City: Mayor Adams' big midterm exam
You Decide with Errol Louis - January 25, 2024 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsHalfway through his term in office, Mayor Eric Adams delivered his annual State of the City address, detailing proposals covering everything from the ongoing migrant crisis to public safety to housing and the economy. He also said Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan has declared social media a ...
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Cea Weaver: Are we closer to fixing N.Y.’s housing problem?
You Decide with Errol Louis - January 18, 2024 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsA year after Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers failed to reach a deal on a housing plan, they’re back at work in the State Capitol with the governor making a more modest proposal to build affordable homes across the state. One person who’s fighting every day to end the crisis is Cea Weaver...
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Key takeaways from Gov. Hochul’s policy agenda
You Decide with Errol Louis - January 11, 2024 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsThis week, Gov. Kathy Hochul delivered her third State of the State address, focusing on housing proposals and plans to make the state a safer and more affordable place to live by addressing mental health care — especially in young New Yorkers. Her agenda is much more scaled back than in previou...
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'You Decide': The year review of 2023
You Decide with Errol Louis - January 04, 2024 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsThis week, in addition to celebrating its five-year anniversary, NY1’s “You Decide” is taking a quick look back at 2023 with an eye on 2024. Errol Louis selected some of his favorite episodes of the podcast from the past 12 months, and discussed why he found each conversation so memorable and re...
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Introduction
Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures by Douglas William Jerrold - January 02, 2024 00:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
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Lecture 1: Mr. Caudle has lent five pounds to a friend
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