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Max & Murphy on Politics
"krueger" Discussed on Max & Murphy on Politics
"I mean, is it housing? Bail reform and charter schools because those are some of the governors sort of marquee proposals that she seems extremely committed to. Is there anything else on your list? What do you look at and say, oh, these are going to be the most contentious and complicated negotiations. So I have a much longer list that I think the governor does. Just quickly, we've done bail reform several times. We've done hearings already this year, looking at the data that's coming out. I don't think there's much room in either house in the legislature to take on bail again. There's criminal justice issues we would love to come to agreement on. But we don't think the actual problem of growth in crime was caused by bail or that it's creating a new problem. So we would much rather focus on the other issues in crime. We'll see whether the governor is willing to do that. The charter school issue, the city of New York, doesn't want it because it would cost him another $1.3 billion that they say they don't have, and we're not going to give them. So the city of New York doesn't seem to want the expansion of charters and the legislature doesn't want the expansion of charters. So I just don't think there's a lot of room there for any negotiations. Just quickly on that. I think the mayor would be is supportive of expanding charter schools, but he just wants the money to come with it for rent really for the well, he says it's $1.3 billion new cost to the city of New York each and every year. And I'm telling you, given how much we are investing in K through 12 and the growth we've seen, we don't intend to give him that money. So he doesn't have it. He doesn't want to spend it, and he's not getting it from us. So I'm pretty sure his people are saying, yeah, we can't do this.
Max & Murphy on Politics
"krueger" Discussed on Max & Murphy on Politics
"Max politics. This is Ben max from Gotham gazette, a publication of citizen union foundation. Thanks very much for tuning in here for this episode of the show. It's Monday, march 20th, 2023. It is just about ten days before a state budget is due for the start of the new fiscal year, which begins April 1st. My guest today is state senator Liz Krueger. A Manhattan Democrat who chairs the Senate's finance committee and is intimately involved in the state budget process. Senator Krueger, along with her state assembly counterpart, presided over weeks of hearings on governor Kathy hochul's $227 billion executive budget, and then helped lead the crafting of the Senate's one House budget resolution, which was passed this past Thursday, march 16th. Just before that vote by the Senate, senator Kruger spent a good chunk of Thursday to pay debating Republicans on the Senate's budget resolution, which was written by its democratic supermajority. I watched a lot of that floor debate, and it was very fascinating. We're going to get into some of the topics that came up here. Some of the biggest pieces of the Senate's one House budget resolution. And, of course, how it differs from the governor's proposals. Both the Senate and the assembly have passed their one House budget rezos with a lot of agreement between the two democratic supermajorities, but many areas of divergence from governor hochul spending and policy plans. These are statements of values. They are broad outlines of how the two legislative chambers want to spend state money, as well as their stances on a host of policy considerations. And they now set the stage for the final weeks of negotiations among the two democratic majorities and the democratic governor, governor hochul, negotiating her second budget as governor and the first since winning a term of her own in the election this past fall. Just a few of the many issues of contention and up for negotiation and debate include how to address New York's housing affordability crisis, how to fund the MTA and cover its operating deficit, whether to again change the state's bail laws, whether to raise the cap on charter schools in New York City, whether to raise tuition at cuny, whether to continue certain economic development, tax breaks and incentives, millions, and tax credits that the TV and film industry, for Madison Square Garden, for a new Belmont race track. That's more of a loan than a grant or an incentive or a tax break, but there's a lot of different pieces to the debate here over where this state budget will head. It's due by April 1st. We know that it Albany, the budget is often a little bit late. Last year was about 8 days, I believe, other years, it's been on time. It's varied over the years and decades. So let's get into a lot of it here. State senator Liz Krueger chair of the Senate finance committee is back here with us. Thank you for taking the time again, senator Krueger. Welcome, how are you? I'm great.
The Breakdown
The Fed Is Scared of Stock Market Animal Spirits
"Today we are going into the macro realm because remember, before there was the wrecking ball of Luna and then three AC and then Sam and now maybe Barry? There was the macro environment and the fed just tanking all risk assets. In fact, this week we had something of an anniversary. Yesterday we got the fed meeting minutes from December and the meeting minutes are kind of a chance for the Federal Reserve to give extra nuggets of information to drive markets in the direction they want. It's not an accident that they're released weeks after the actual FOMC meeting. They're used as yet another tool of self fulfilling prophecy. So if the fed thinks the markets didn't get the message they were trying to send well enough or got it too well, they can recalibrate. This happened in dramatic fashion in January of last year in 2022. In December 2020 one, the fed confirmed that their FOMC meeting, what everyone anticipated, that rate hikes were coming in 2022. In fact, that confirmation drove markets higher as pretty much everyone in the market thought that the fed had waited too long to hike rates at that point. What markets didn't anticipate was that in addition to rate hikes, the Federal Reserve actually anticipated starting to reduce the size of the balance sheet in 2022 as well. In other words, a shift from quantitative easing to quantitative tightening. This was surprising because after the fed's last period of QE, it took years to actually start to move to balance sheet normalization and eventually reduction. So to do it in just months after rate hikes began would be a dramatic shift. Here's how macro analysts and trader Alex Krueger put it back then. This is excerpted from a thread that he published on January 9th, 2022, almost exactly a year ago. There has been a very fundamental shift at the Federal Reserve. The fed has flipped decidedly hawkish. Their main worry is not employment. It is inflation. And to fight inflation, the fed has to increase interest rates. It all started with Powell's inflation no longer transitory comment of November 30th. And culminated with the FOMC minutes released on Wednesday, where fed officials discussed faster balance sheet normalization.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Larry Taunton: Trump Is the Freddy Krueger of Politics
"Say Trump is like the Freddy Krueger of American politics, like he just, he won't go away. And I got to tell you folks, you know, he's like, he's like the honey badger. I mean, the humor in this is to see the harder they go against him and against those who supported him and who love America, the worst things get for them. They are basically, they don't know how not to overplay their hand in the Mar-a-Lago raid was an example. I mean, what might they do next? I mean, we don't know. Yeah, I agree with that. And it's very interesting that we have yet to be given a clear reason for the Mar-a-Lago ray. I mean, they've offered no legitimate illegal reason for searching Barron Trump's room and going through Melania Trump's underwear. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that this government is doing. And at the same time, I mean, I saw a very clever, you know, Babylon bee headline that says, you know, president who protected his own son from the FBI and who raided the home of his opposition says that we are in danger of becoming a third world banana republic. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that you see in the third world.
What's The [DATA] Point?
"krueger" Discussed on What's The [DATA] Point?
"I actually had a meeting the other day with some people who were like, well, you know, solar is not great at night, and maybe the wind would stop. I was like, okay, it's true at night. Solar is not that useful, but we have batteries for storing the solar energy. The wind isn't going to stop guys. Chill out. We're not going to run out of wind on the oceans. So I'm actually very excited about the governor's increased commitment to moving us along and offshore wind power because New York State actually has ideal coastline for offshore wind and we should really leading the country in new projects. So I'm totally psyched about the opportunities there. Let me ask you about one piece that sort of connects to what we were discussing about state priorities and competitiveness, which is affordable housing. The governor touted a $25 billion 5 year housing plan, it seems to me that we need to sort of dig into the details there a little bit more and ask for more about how that will play out. But there were other proposals that governor hulk had put forward in her agenda earlier this year that didn't make it into the budget. There seems to be a really, really significant problem in New York City with housing development keeping up with demand and part of the reason it seems like we're losing people is housing costs. I know, you know, in my age bracket and people with kids are looking to New Jersey, are looking outside the city in cheaper places to live more space, et cetera. Do you think this budget did enough to address the affordable housing crisis in New York City, especially and what could be done in the legislative session to come to help break some of the problems that we face? So I'll keep it simple. There's never been a budget that's done enough to address the affordable housing crisis in New York and just keeps.
Tolbert, Krueger and Brooks
Ben Simmons Informs 76ers He Wants Trade out of Philadelphia
"Which is what I think they call it around there is reporting that been Simmons. Does not want to remain a Philadelphia 76 or and he will not report to training camp. Quick note that we alluded to earlier Ben Simmons has $147 Million.04 years left on his deal. So weird when you hear that talk about I ain't coming to training camp. Just remember Money talks. You know what walks hunted $47 million remaining. On his deal, okay? Ben Simmons, also, according to reports wants to be traded to California professional basketball team now Go to the list of teams. You get those two teams in L. A Yeah. You got one here in the Bay area. Very popular squad known as the Golden State Warriors and you have a squad in Sacramento said that is 1234 teams. Ben Simmons is not expressed that he desires that we know of yet. He desires to go to one California professional basketball team over another. I think we can all assume, however, that if he were traded to the Sacramento Kings, he would be as happy if he were treated to The Golden State Warriors. Just guess. I'm guessing you're a Thank you. I think you're right. Well, look, I think
Tolbert, Krueger and Brooks
NCAA Approves J.R. Smith to Play College Golf for North Carolina A&T
The Joys Of Binge Reading: The Best in Mystery, Romance and Historicals
"krueger" Discussed on The Joys Of Binge Reading: The Best in Mystery, Romance and Historicals
"The war in laos and cambodia as well at that point time stanford university had a relationship with an organization called. Sri the stanford research institute whose primary source of income was research at that point. In time research in military weaponry that many of us have stanford who felt that was inappropriate relationship for an institution length stanford to maintain particularly at that point in history so we petition the the board of trustees to sever the relationship we petitioned the administration. We marched we demonstrated but because of course there were huge number amounts of money involved. Nobody listened to us so find frustration. A group of us marched into the administration one day and occupied it took over the building was vacated we took control of it and that night we We had a dance there in the area where we would have typically registering for classes at midnight and dance van folded up and took off those of us who are going to occupy. The building rolled out our sleeping bags and went to sleep a huge tactical error because at one. Am the palo alto riot. Squads went through interested us. I was on a full scholarship to stanford evaporated. And i had to leave. But you know. I have never regretted that because i was really kinda getting to the point in my life. I thought colleges and teaching me what i need to know. In order to be a writer to be storyteller. I need to go out and experience the world. Not an ivy covered institution but They're working in the world like regular folks too so i went out and logged timber and worked instruction in mopped hospital floors and so much of my appreciation of what it is to struggle in in in life the struggles of working class people from that experience. And also i gotta tell you this journey. It's just so much. More interesting. To me. To say that i was kicked out of stanford and that i graduated from the place. That's right. I think that the way that you've sailed on through is the most remarkable and fantastic. Tell me looking back down the tunnel of time. I guess you've already answered this. But i like to ask people. Is there anything you change or do differently. If you had the chance to head either again. Nothing about the my journey as a writer. There are a couple of a couple of different decisions. I make make about the writing itself but in terms of the journey though it's been a good journey and you know i. This was the journey. I was always meant to take. I believe we're all on the journey. We were always meant to take so. I don't want the second guessed one. Yeah yeah yeah and is they once and you'd contribute more than any other to your success as a writer. My wife who has from the very first believed profoundly in in supporting the stream that i've had of being a storyteller in you know when when young when young writers come to me in they ask me. What's the best piece of advice you A young writer. It's this marry somebody with a good job by wife is an attorney and so we haven't we haven't had to Exists on bread and water all smuggled to become a storyteller a published storyteller undefeated foe. So tell us looking a heat over the next twelve months. What have you got on your writing. This what projects have you got underway and things that you really wanted to complete in the next twelve months. sure well. I just embarked on revisions to the manuscript. That will be the next novel in the cork o'connor series after lightning. Strike it it Scheduled to be published in the fall of twenty twenty two. It's called jawbone creek. So i'll finish up the revisions for that novel and i have already embarked on the beginning of the manuscript for the next standalone novel. And i'm just having a justin joyful time with it so i will continue to work on that manuscript. Have you got any time or title yet. Time for publication titled that one or is it still very much in progress. You don't wanna talk about that. Okay yeah you don't want to fuse the energy. I can fully understand it. And i guess that you like hearing from your readers. I very much pick that up from what we've it already. But they want to contact you. How can they contact you. And hence this period of restricted activity with the pandemic. You know being difficult for you in terms of stopping with those interactions. But more perhaps a i feel a little guilty about the pandemic because i know many many people have suffered terribly have not. I've been in this period. Have been incredibly prolific. And i've reached out to readers in an entirely. Different way zoomed by the end of this year. Have of promising. Three hundred book clubs internationally as a result of the pandemic and so i i will always now reach out to readers with an offer to zoom with their book. Loves if they'll have me. Although i am embarking on an in tour for lightening strike. It's been two years since i've done in person event. That is something that will that has changed. Dramatically will be in place going forward. That'll be part of the new normal now. If anybody listening isn't a book club and i would like to take up that invitation. What would be the best way to approach it to see if you could do one full of them. My website is www dot william. Kent krueger dot com. There is a link on my website. If you would like to invite me to be a part of your Of your book group. There's also link if you just want to contact me and ask me a question or comment on my work. Whatever you would like to do you can find it on my website. Www dot william. Kent krueger dot com this cocaine. It's just fantastic. Thank you spent great talking to you today. And all the very gotta sang maori-language language kia kaha which is sort of like keep strong power to amel kia car hat to you or i love that. Thank you and right back at ya. Thanks for listening to the joys of binge reading podcast you can find all the details and links for this episode at dub dub dub dot the joys of binge reading dot com. We'd love to your comments and suggestions for who you'd like us to interview next and if you enjoyed the show take a moment to subscribe chains or a similar provider. So you won't miss out on future guests. Thanks for joining us and happy reading the joys of bench reading. Podcast is put together with fantastic technical help from dan. Cotton and abe raffles. Dan is an experienced sound and video engineer. Whose radiant available to help you with your ex project. Seek him out at d c audio services at g. out dot com that steve daniel cpa charlie audio services at gm dot com or cheek casher nights. He's fast he takes pride and getting right and he's great to work with a voice. I was done by abe rebels and now the gm of sound grain. 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The Joys Of Binge Reading: The Best in Mystery, Romance and Historicals
"krueger" Discussed on The Joys Of Binge Reading: The Best in Mystery, Romance and Historicals
"But the here's where here's where the tender land came from. It's another story that. I have wanted to write for a long time when i was eleven years old. That would have been in the fifth grade toward the end of that year. Our teacher read the class. The adventures of tom sawyer should do to buy greeting half an hour after lunch every day. I loved that book. Here was this kid. He was just like me and he was out there on. The mississippi river having is really great adventures. And after that of course i had to read adventures of huckleberry finn which i loved even more and so across my entire career as a writer. I have wanted someday to write a novel that would pay homage to mark twain. That might be in. Its own way. An updated version of huckleberry finn in. That's where this tender land came from and it was the success of ordinary grace. Really both the critical monitors successive ordinary grace. That allowed me to launch into that particular project because prior to ordinary grace by publisher really only wanted corporal connor novels from me so that ordinary broke me out. I have extended my reach with this gender landon. I'm at work on a third standalone. That be a companion novel to both ordinary grace and this gender land great also. It's probably no coincidence. That you spent many is working and research development that so you've got the academic strand alongside your personal experience. I guess that has also helped feed into your understanding of what is going on with these characters has other driving forces like us in the works that i create with children is my understanding. That children are incredibly resilient if you look at the four vagabonds at the heart of this tender land. They have all undergone incredible trauma incredible loss and yet they're able to rebound and build a family centered around the the forum and together using all of their resources and their love for one. Another make an epic journey in the summer. Nineteen thirty two. Yeah yeah the turning to your own reading because we're starting to come to the end of our time together. We like to ask people about their reading and ask for the recommendations books that they think listeners might like to read themselves so tell us a little bit about your reading and had you been binge reader as such. I am typically not a binge reader. I pick and choose dabbled here i dabble there. I have to be honest with you so much my reading these days or what's called. Ar sees advanced readers copies or bound. Galleys and these are books that won't be available to readers For a very long time. I've been asked to read them with an eye to offer us jacket quote readers listeners. I'm sure are familiar with that quote that goes across. The you know the top of every book. Stephen king says this is the best thing since sliced bread or the bible. So a lot of my reading is done for that but i also lead a book group for my Church and doing good reading. But when i'm able to pick those books that i would like to read for pleasure very often pick books that are similar to what i write and very often said in the mid west or the set set a heartland of the country. My most most recent read for me that Mice socks off was a book. Written by kristin hannah called the four winds which like this tender land is set during the great depression that was set in the dust bowl area of the united states. And she's just so beautiful in her evocation of the The incredible hardships that the dust bowl years in the depression forced on those people. Another book that. I had to recommend for anybody who's read this tender land and enjoyed. It would be a book called before we were yours. By lisa wingate also set during the great depression and based on the tragic tragic real situation in which children essentially stolen from their families and adopted two very wealthy families. So those are some of my recommendations but we're more recommendation for binge breeding. I do have an author. That when i discovered i read everything by a guy named frederick bachmann readers might be familiar with a man called ov- Every book that i've read by bachman just been a delight. His is such a compassionate human being with a wonderful sense of humor. It's great we mentioned that you quite a long time. I think probably a good many years. You were working full time as a researcher. And you develop to way of writing this sort of compartmentalization. Almost you might say of your right in life. Tell us a bit about how you structured your time so that you could work in that job but also get your books done. Sure i moved to minnesota. My wife could go to law school here. And when she entered law school. I became the sole supporter of our family. I was the guy to keep a roof over head food on the table. But i wanted to be a writer as vita figure out a way to meet my responsibility. Salsa developed as a storyteller. We were living two blocks from the psychotic cafes. All place called the saint clair broiler at opened stores at six. Am every morning seventies weeks. Oh i pitched this idea to my wife. Honey if you're going to get the kids up and dressed and fed off to school. I think so i can go right. I swear to you when i come home from my job. At the end of the day i will be the best husband best far possibly imagined she audit every morning at six o'clock with my pen and my notebook in hand and that became my regime. I still get up at six o'clock every morning. Seven days a week and spend the first two to three hours each day writing. But you don't use a pen and paper anymore. You know about my eighth novel. I was a little behind deadline. And you know if you're right longhand you have to transcribe to a computer or processing some kind and that takes time and i thought you know if i could write directly to the computer. Maybe i can meet deadline. And so i was scary proposition because writing with my pen. Notebook was part of the magic of the creation. And i didn't wanna monkey with the magic. But i I tried the deriding directly to the keyboard. What do you know it works. I think it's remarkable that you right wrote eight books it longhand. Actually you know. I still know Writers who have become selling authors. Who still hyper way on old manual typewriters. Because it's a part of the magic. Yeah i can imagine that. Actually the imperial sixty six wouldn't mind trying to use a of sixty six but you couldn't just quickly use the source. Oh google could use look Talking about your life and what's contributed to your writing. I was fascinated by the detail that you shared on your website about the way your own at least was interrupted. Rather buy some radical action that that occurred. You don't have any regrets about it at all. But tell us about the experience on how it's contributed to life on your is unsure matriculated stanford university one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning here in the united states in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine that was at the height of the vietnam more conflict. The torah country. Apart in terrible ways it tore the nation apart tour communities apart or families. apart the spring of nineteen seventy. The there was a situation that tragic situation that took place on the kent state university in ohio in which the national guard there opened fire on a group of protesters killing a number of students about that same period. In time we became aware that the government had been lying to us about the extent of the war in vietnam that in fact we were carrying on.
The Joys Of Binge Reading: The Best in Mystery, Romance and Historicals
"krueger" Discussed on The Joys Of Binge Reading: The Best in Mystery, Romance and Historicals
"Well. Not just to the westerns. Yeah yeah that's that's great. They also the explore the nature of family relationships dick and you've mentioned about the importance of his father to cook. It seems to me that threads right through the whole series and it's very much enlightening strike. We he's not only got his son steven but his grandson that he's very aware of protector. And the sense of generational exchange. How do you balance that characterization against the need a plots on the action that a mystery is also traditionally expected to have a juggling act. Which can i say sometimes. Walk a pretty thin line paces. Always a significant element that. I'm aware of as i'm writing a story. If the pace lags are gonna lose readers so you wanna keep the pace up. But i'm also aware that across all of these novels that one of the reasons are reader reach. These stories is because they have become an amored of not just corporate connor but all of the characters particularly family who have figured significantly in almost every novel. So it's not. These are not just the cork o'connor stories the stories of the core o'connor clan and so i have built these characters over twenty years now and readers who followed me all the way through it they know the characters well a have fallen in love with some of them. They have grieved win of them. have passed on and so that for me. That's just that is as much a part of the attraction as any fast pace that might be able to put into the plot a night and deflation mansion that you make cokes daughter jeanie novelist and the story so real that actually you even name for the novel. She's written and i felt team to to actually go to see if they have some name over with that name but seemed to me. That storytelling is something. That's really precious to you. And i did notice that you have spoken on that topic of storytelling in a christian environment. Some some state in the past. Could you tell us a bit about the way that he regards storytelling interesting that you should raise this question because i just finished another thing for crime reads publication this morning turned it in this morning about an called it. The storytellers promise. You know a lot of often called a writer or more specifically a mystery writer. But the truth is i think of myself primarily as a storyteller and i think as a storyteller as i said yesterday i have i have an obligation kind of a sacred obligation to speak the truth that are essential to who who human beings and so i don't want to set out to write a story Entertain wanna make sure that the reader has a good time. But i really tried to get a deeper things deeper issues. And so one of the things i do write about his family because that fascinates me we are all. We evolve in part of a family grew out of those families. We've created families of our own. There are forces that seek to divide families enforces that. Pull them back together as a storyteller. I wanted to tell the truth of those kinds of dynamics. Justice is another issue that needs to be explored in an honest way. So i think it's the storytellers obligation to seek out the truths that are common to all humanity and explore them as deeply dishonestly as we can and i do think that gives your mystery hours a day that a lot of traditional casey's for example. They found their entertainment work to a formula. But yours to have that extra layer of that is not there in some mysteries and you've ward won an amazing bag awards. We won't go into all of them practically every book it seems to me is either one award being seller. I read somewhere that the last nine corker connors have all been best sellers but this one that stands out and that is your standalone book ordinary grace which won an award for best novel and quite a few of the writer that i speak to have mentioned that ordinary grace's one that they really admire is the story of me. Does minister san who is murdered in small town minnesota in the nineteen sixties and. It's told from the point of view of his brother. An adolescent boy called frank. You say that this was a story. That just would not leave you alone. Can you tell us a bit about the genesis. Storage will the essential truth at the heart of ordinary. Grace is the importance of the spiritual journey that i believe. We're all on if you were to read my cork o'connor stories. You would say that there is an undercurrent and most of the stories that deals with the spiritual journey is something that comes very naturally to cork o'connor because he's a at because he's a man of mixed heritage. He has a foot in two different Spiritual traditions what catholicism. These irish catholic and as a boy spirituality and so very often the stories cork is trying to figure out where his unique spiritual path lives. And that was certainly has always been an issue for me. And so i was looking for a story that would allow to explore more deeply the importance of the spiritual journey in our lives. That was one reason. I wrote the novel but the other was this site and looking for story for very long time it would allow me to go back and recall an important period in my own. Life somewhere was thirteen years old and Andrew called it a new vocal in such a way that i could use bits and pieces of my own life my own memories by own perceptions To create the work so for those people who have read ordinary grace that drum family at the heart of that story is essentially. My family The town new bremen that i created for the story is so very light. The small midwestern towns where. I spent my adolescence. And i wanted to write it. In such a way that readers were born decades slater could still read that novel and know what it was like to be thirteen year. Old boy in a small midwestern town in the summer of nineteen sixty one. And that's really where the story came from an. I've been wanting to write that story for a very long time. In fact i'd taken a couple of cracks at it but it wasn't until the voice of frank drum. Came to me kind of like kind of like a flame of fire. I'll bend the cost. That i finally was able to it. I heard him speak that opening line to me all the dying. That summer began with the death of a child and then i was able to write the story. Yeah yeah you have a real affinity with the child's voice because you wrote a follow up a connected story that the team to land afterward greis which looks for runaway orphans. Who take a canoe trip down. The mississippi in years of the great depression theory huckleberry finn but was probably much doc underside. Tell us what to do. The follow up story as well. How does it relate. Back to frank roller with ordinary grace. This tender land and now Lightening strike. I have essentially written three stories that deal with adolescent males and found that to be a very easy for us for me to capture. It's large measure because i kind of firm believer johnny. That men don't mature much past lovers. Thirteen years part kinda stuck in our adolescence..
The Joys Of Binge Reading: The Best in Mystery, Romance and Historicals
"krueger" Discussed on The Joys Of Binge Reading: The Best in Mystery, Romance and Historicals
"He is can't hello. They came welcome to the shaw. It's great to have you with us. All what a pleasure to be with you jenny. Thank you for the invitation to be a part of this. Look you've just about to publish lightening strike book. Eighteen in the corker connor series. In fact by the time goes to air lightening strike will be out. You're an award winning new york times right. End up selling writer and the critics agree that even at book eighteen. You're still fresh and unmissable but lightening strike has a twist of its own. Because it's what we call a prequel you take light back to the beginning of the story and introduce us to your protagonist as coke Ah boy not even a man at the stage now. that's an interesting twist. Tell us what inspired you to do. That cork has a significant history. That i have alluded to many times in the stories. But i've never really gone back to explore that history particularly the relationship. The cork had with his father for those who are not familiar with my series. Cork o'connor was at one point. The sheriff of the fictional tamarack county minnesota and when cork was a boy his father was also sheriff of tamarack county and mad who clearly greatly influenced his son. And so i wanted to be able to go back and explore more deeply that significant relationship also. The relationship cork had with his mother and several of the other characters who are recurring in the stories. And who have influenced court dramatically across the course of his life. Now i notice that in the past wayne read the has asked you. Where should i start the series. It doesn't matter where i begin them. You've always advise them to go to one. Which is called iron lake but you now a- sang that really. You think the best idea would be to start with this book. Why is that well. This book can be read very much. As what in the business we call standalone. It requires absolutely no knowledge of the history to the The very long running cork o'connor series it can be enjoyed simply between the covers of this particular novel but gives the reader an excellent introduction into the characters that the reader will meet again and again in the course of the series should they decide to redeem only the characters but the elements that will typically be. Apart of coq o'connor story the location a good sense of the kind of a storyteller. That i am so this is really a good place to begin. And if readers appreciate Lightening strike tonight. Advise them to go to the beginning of the series and start reading with iron link the series dust unfold in real time so some writers choose to leave the hero on a kind of vague time. We never really quite sure if their agent and nothing much changes in the world but you very much taken corks through lifestyle just being a a a a husband being a father now in the book before the swan insulation mountain. I think it's called. he's a grandfather. So you take through all of these life stages y. Is important to you to do that. Rather than keep him in this no-man's-land of the mystery series world. Here's mr writing one. Oh one jenny. When you create a series with central protagonist you have only two choices. I think in the kind of protagonist. You're going to create. You can either create a static. Protagonist or a dynamic protagonist. What's a static. Protagonist that someone who never changes someone. Who's the same book the book to ebook. Think sherlock holmes you've read one sherlock holmes story he's going to be the same guy in every store you read after that. What's dynamic protagonists. That somebody who does change somebody who ages somebody for whom what happens in. A story is reflected in subseq-subsequent entries in the series in how that character response to the world. So when i wrote my first cork o'connor novel. I saw him as a man of about forty now. I'm writing him in his mid fifties age approximately fifteen or sixteen years. His family have aged along with him. His youngest child. Stephen was five in the first story in the series is now i think i'm writing him now. Twenty one in my current novel the script. I'm at work on and you know what that that was. One of the best decisions i could ever have made because what it does is it keeps writing the series interesting for me because every time i sit down to write a new cork o'connor novel i'm writing about different people. They aren't the same people they were in the last story. Things have happened that have caused them to change their perceptions of themselves and the world and the relationships to each other. So that really keeps it interesting for me and i think that's part of what keeps it interesting for readers as well. Yeah i think it probably helps create a world that they really feel there pat off because they are on world is changing around them all the time. Anyway isn't that and that's why when readers ask where they should begin. I recommend they begin at the beginning of the series and read through in order because it's a much richer experience there same. All of the changes that occur in the cork o'connor plan across the courts of the novels. Yeah now coke has a heritage which is pat irish and pat native american from the very start. You included the night of american coach and people in the box now. I don't know if you've got it. What looks you've got to the local ojibway people yourself but how did you banished to do the research for their. That's their intense. That part of the story is very real. When i decided to include the ojibway the initiative iq as an element of the stories. I was going to write. I knew a about as much about the boy. The native people here as most white people do which is nothing but i was a cultural anthropology major in college in so the idea of learning about this culture. Not my own was quite intriguing to me and so i began in the way. All good academic speaking began by reading. I read everything. I could get my hands on the early. Ethanol griffey's folks written by Ojibway authors about jubilee myth Ritual some great ojibwa storytellers. I read their work. And when i thought i got a grasp of the culture began to my first novel iron link now in the course of all of that reading research i began to meet members of the ojibway community and form relationships that have over these decades. Become important friendships for me. So that's how it all began and that's how it's progressed. I emma always terribly aware that a white person trespassing on a culture not my own. So we're very hard to get a ride. Yeah now for who went familiar with the final. You aced yoga fake quiz. 'cause i'm an eugene and some of our listeners around australia good number of them are in the states but even people in the states may not be so aware of northern minnesota. Which is where you live. That is an area with quite a high indian population. Still and it's so god it's a midwest state but i just wonder if traditionally is it one that spain included as one of the ones wasting written from while i certainly don't regard can and my guess is people who are looking for a good a good western wouldn't regard them as such but they do fall into what has become a fairly rich. I guess sub-genre here particularly in mysteries. Which is the regional mystery. And so story said here. In the midwest particularly the upper mid west have their own their own charm and attract readers for their own reasons but a reader who reads one of my stories is not going to expect the same experience necessarily that the reader of someone like tony hillerman who also writes or wrote about native cultures achieve because he said his work in the south west and while we deal with the same Cross cultural issues are our settings are so profoundly different that it's a.
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Dennis Schroder Signs $5.9 Mil. Deal With Celtics After Rejecting $84 Mil. From Lakers
"Always good to check in on your friends every so often. And if anybody listening right now is friends with Dennis Schroder, you might want to check on my man like, Stop Whatever it is you're doing right now and drop them attacks nor an email or a phone call. Maybe hit him up on WhatsApp or Instagram do something anything to pick this guy up? Because Dennis had himself a week and a summer and a year. Remember back in March, Brian Wind horse had reported the Lakers offered him a four Your extension worth 84 mil. He turned it down. He bet on himself As always. I respect people who bet on themselves. You have to my man turned 84 mil into 5.9 mil a one year deal that he decided with the Boston Celtics. That's one of those things that you never really get over, but you just hope to get past I'm Jim Rome.
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On This Day: Buster Posey Arrives Full Force at New York Giants
"In Giants history, We're going to go back to a really cool moment in Giants history. 2010 1 Buster Posey was arriving full force just called up from the minors and the Giants going to turn that season around in July with a huge help. The rookie Buster Posey. So it's 77 10 were in Milwaukee. Miller Park taking on the Brewers Brewers are pitching a guy named Chris Narva Sin and Andres Torres greets him with a bomb is a good start Homers to start the game. Freddy Sanchez flies out and then Aubry half he hits a bomb. So it's two nothing Giants Pat Burrow with a base. It's they're seeing this guy and here he is recently called up from the minor leagues, Buster Posey. Here's Buster Posey, a long drive deep to left center got home run into the Milwaukee bullpen. Buster Posey makes enough for nothing game. Posey's fourth home run and the Giants with a four. Nothing first inning lead the Giants just opening it up to the stretch it to 7 to 1 in the fourth when Freddy Sanchez clears the bases with a three run triple ever since, still in the game, by the way, he walks Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrow to reload the bases. Finally, they give them the hook and bring in Chris Capuano. But he's got a face Buster Posey and Like I said, Guys, he was arriving here is a pitch, he swings and it's a high drive to right field. Corey Hart's going back on the warning track. He's at the wall gone. It's a grand slam for Posey, who's hit two home runs tonight, and now he's got his first big league Grand Slam. He hits this one to right field, clearing the bases. The Giants lead is 11 to 1. It was all happening. Just started to get hot. Buster Posey four for four career high six RBS Giants win 15 to 2 on July 7 2010 huge game for Buster Posey, and this has been Brian
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Local MMA Team Makes $540,000 Total NIL Commitment to Miami Football Players
"A bunch of mixed martial arts gyms. Is trying to really come over the top with this. Guy named Dan Lambert. He owns American top team. And he's a big time Miami fan. Doesn't say that he went. There is just a big time fan. And he has offered each scholarship player on the Miami football team, a monthly payment of $500 this year to advertisers gyms on social media. The math has been done, and this is going to add up to as much as $540,000 no surprise. This is the largest reported some For college endorsement deal since, UM name image and likeness took effect. Last week.
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"krueger" Discussed on What's The [DATA] Point?
"Help to people who need it are participating. I actually think while we had a trial run previously with some state money and it didn't work. Well we actually learned what didn't work in are not repeating those mistakes and yes you know. It's a challenge to but it's absolutely doable. We have all kinds of models that we know work in evaluation of government programs and unfortunately the state just isn't willing to really do that and i don't understand why not because not only can we guarantee on ourselves better outcomes. It's not the end of the world to try something and then admit it didn't quite work and that we're going to fix it because that's how you do role models that are successful. Exactly patrick. You wrote a piece last year. Listening to sage advice. Which harkened back to the governor sage commission which recommended performance management. Actually a good set of recommendations sadly never implemented. Patrick can you just remind us what what you recommend in that report for performance management for the state yet it gets back to what senator krueger was just saying that. This isn't a foreign concept. Both other states do this. Local governments to this and the governor's own spending in government efficiency commission at the beginning of his his first term also recommended implementing a comprehensive performance management system. So the way that that works is is exactly that government to set goals ahead of time. Transparently what benchmarks. They wanna achieve. How they're going to get there then. Retrospectively look and say. Did we do it in if we didn't have do things better. So that's kind of what. Performance management is in a nutshell. But you know when you get more concretely. What does that answer talked. School school-aged medicaid infrastructure in this discussion performance management system. You could say did the kid in the parents walking out of school thank. My school is improved because of the increased investment. Are you managing care for medicaid in released with the highest needs are you fixing roads and bridges in rebuilding a pedestrian spaces and things like that setting those goals in. I think letting the public know what those goals are something that they deserve in also that taxpayers deserve the best results we can. We can drive grady ej. I wanted to agree. I think that first of all that report that the cbc and patrick did on sage was excellent and that was calling attention to those good ideas at the administration came up with and then kind of dropped. I think the has got some excellent proposals on bolstering that at the state level and another proposal. Senator krueger has that. I think would help. In the general way that i would hope to see her conference and the assembly pickup would be. The end. would help in this area. That the senator mentioned that legislators feeling like that. The governor has too much leverage saying the budget process. I think that they could make better use of their own position if they established a legislative budget office of the sort of senators recommended in proposing legislation that legis model like rational budget office which among other things would let the legislators themselves be better informed about what it is. They're dealing with. And the the the the cost and and trade offs of proposals they've made and enacted and that could play a role also and program evaluation. It provides plays a very useful role in california. What's called the fiscal analyst office. There and i think could play a really good role here especially since frankly says the same party dominates both houses now and thus both fiscal committees It wouldn't necessarily be a whole new bureaucracy. It could be a way of regis realigning staff and having as we said the cbo model but a legislative budget office of the sort of the senators proposed legislation. I i think you renew that legislation senator. Did you the session. I have a feeling. I gave it to a new senator..
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"With the legislature it's not just because the legislature has veto proof majorities in both houses again. I don't mean to speak for you too much center. But it's it's not doesn't mean it's easy for either house to simply say snap. We're just going to override him that that's that's not an easy thing to actually do. However the broader dynamic in his own party is such that he he. He is conflict averse abroad sense. He may be annoyed by or even in present company excepted. For sure you know like despise some people in the legislature. But he will. He will go broadly where they're going. Because he does not risk seen as being defeated or overridden by them which is interesting because we've had governors who were willing to get in big fights and willing to risk losing just to stand on a certain grand. The problem he has every governor is ultimately the backstop. I'll never forget a conversation. I had with a very senior legislative fiscal staffer. In during one of the most portions of say nineteen ninety-one mario cuomo was tearing his hair out over the budget. The bottom was flying out the budget. There were tremendous gaps in the legis. He was saying. Please come to the table with me. We have to do some things. I need you to work with me on this and the legislature was basically ignoring him. And i remember talking to this person. I was then the senate the assembly minority staff secretary ways and means and i said gee you know the the stuff that is unfolding here. I think we're going to take yet another The bond credit rating agencies are going to take our credit rating down again and this guy said to me he said listen never forget it's his credit rating. Okay the literally. It's not their credit is. He's the one who's end up taking the credit and getting the blame. The governor no matter what his ideology is he at the end of the day. He's the one who has to make it all. Add up and he's creating if he hopes to be governor indefinitely which perhaps he still does. He's creating bigger problems for his future. I would say. I don't expect up senator krueger to agree with this fully but i mean i think there's a big problem. I think that he's the one who's going to you. Know he the governor. Whoever's governor is going to be the one holding the bag in a few years if these problems mushroom the way. I.
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"krueger" Discussed on What's The [DATA] Point?
"I think people should remember that the way. Our constitution is setup. The governor has the vast majority of power over the budget process. I'm a supporter of a constitutional amendment that would decrease some of his power within the budget and balance out a bit more between the legislature. And the governor. But the truth is the rules of the game. Didn't change just our ability to coordinate us two houses of the same party around certain issues. And yes the governor. As i recall was also dealing with other issues more personal himself during the during the budget. Time still is and we still don't know the punchline of how that story is going to play out so he was somewhat preoccupied with other issues. But now i don't think we had. Dramatically increased our power in the budget process. I like to believe we all get a little better figuring it out every year and that it's a learning curve. I know this was just my third year as finance chair. I sat out every day to try to learn how to do something better so hopefully by next year's budget process. I'll figure out some more tools in the tool kit that we were under where we have. Ej your thoughts. Did you see a significantly changed political dynamic around some of these bigger decisions that were made in the budget process. I tend to agree with the senator on this. When i observed as i don't think that the the actual problems the governor actually didn't experience which began to really blow up a within a week or two of his presentation of the budget. I don't think they affected the outcome. I didn't the outcome is pretty much. What what would have happened anyway. And i i would make the following point about the governor despite his sort of pugnacious countenance. If you will His tendency to be thin skinned in. Yes vindictive in the extreme in many ways and his intolerance for people who disagree with them he is extremely conflict averse when he saw growing majorities in the legislature in his own party developing and that they were considerably to the left in fact the left even aware. Senator krueger was perceived to be ten years ago or so his tendency it when he sees developing is to the run to the front of that parade and declared himself the band master and what he did in this case. What we've seen here is the definitive end of governor. Andrew cuomo The fiscal the force of fiscal restraint. I think that pandemic has provided cover for that fact. I have a whole article in manhattan sioux city journal magazine. Coming out a week or two. That makes this point. This budget is pretty much. This is the governor's budget And i it for instance. And i'm sure you would agree with the senator. He put the tax increase on the table. Now quite misleadingly quite deliberately misleadingly. He put the tax increase on the table. And then he and his budget director discussed it as if it was some contingent issue. We'll this tax increase if we don't get more money no that's not how it works. He proposed a tax increase. He did it knowing that if he didn't propose one it could emerge from the legislature in a way he didn't necessarily control. He put that out and knew that it would become the basis for upward benefit from the legislature. Which is what happened and He was seeking to control the general outline of that. I think the general spending outlines and and revenue outlines of this budget are pretty much what he intended as the final result and what he expected to be the final result and if none of the problems he experienced that can remain a cloud over him at started unfold in february it would have been pretty much the same because i think the dynamic has changed.
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"krueger" Discussed on What's The [DATA] Point?
"I think people should remember that the way. Our constitution is setup. The governor has the vast majority of power over the budget process. I'm a supporter of a constitutional amendment that would decrease some of his power within the budget and balance out a bit more between the legislature. And the governor. But the truth is the rules of the game. Didn't change just our ability to coordinate us two houses of the same party around certain issues. And yes the governor. As i recall was also dealing with other issues more personal himself during the during the budget. Time still is and we still don't know the punchline of how that story is going to play out so he was somewhat preoccupied with other issues. But now i don't think we had. Dramatically increased our power in the budget process. I like to believe we all get a little better figuring it out every year and that it's a learning curve. I know this was just my third year as finance chair. I sat out every day to try to learn how to do something better so hopefully by next year's budget process. I'll figure out some more tools in the tool kit that we were under where we have. Ej your thoughts. Did you see a significantly changed political dynamic around some of these bigger decisions that were made in the budget process. I tend to agree with the senator on this. When i observed as i don't think that the the actual problems the governor actually didn't experience which began to really blow up a within a week or two of his presentation of the budget. I don't think they affected the outcome. I didn't the outcome is pretty much. What what would have happened anyway. And i i would make the following point about the governor despite his sort of pugnacious countenance. If you will His tendency to be thin skinned in. Yes vindictive in the extreme in many ways and his intolerance for people who disagree with them he is extremely conflict averse when he saw growing majorities in the legislature in his own party developing and that they were considerably to the left in fact the left even aware. Senator krueger was perceived to be ten years ago or so his tendency it when he sees developing is to the run to the front of that parade and declared himself the band master and what he did in this case. What we've seen here is the definitive end of governor. Andrew cuomo The fiscal the force of fiscal restraint. I think that pandemic has provided cover for that fact. I have a whole article in manhattan sioux city journal magazine. Coming out a week or two. That makes this point. This budget is pretty much. This is the governor's budget And i it for instance. And i'm sure you would agree with the senator. He put the tax increase on the table. Now quite misleadingly quite deliberately misleadingly. He put the tax increase on the table. And then he and his budget director discussed it as if it was some contingent issue. We'll this tax increase if we don't get more money no that's not how it works. He proposed a tax increase. He did it knowing that if he didn't propose one it could emerge from the legislature in a way he didn't necessarily control. He put that out and knew that it would become the basis for upward benefit from the legislature. Which is what happened and He was seeking to control the general outline of that. I think the general spending outlines and and revenue outlines of this budget are pretty much what he intended as the final result and what he expected to be the final result and if none of the problems he experienced that can remain a cloud over him at started unfold in february it would have been pretty much the same because i think the dynamic has changed.
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"krueger" Discussed on What's The [DATA] Point?
"And it's draining revenue out of the state that we should be receiving because they're doing their businesses here. All right let's get interviewed to weigh in a little bit Including you patrick. If you have any analysis or thoughts on this but We stick with us. Senator krueger then come back to you. ej mcmahon. The shifting political dynamics. That have happened in really the last few years But especially so around this budget when the governor was facing so much scandal so many calls to resign So much going on there. But but the the political dynamics had already been shifting since democrats took control of both houses of legislature. Increase that control with with super majorities. How how have the shifting power dynamics in albany impacted the budget decision making processes that. We've we've just seen senator crew. So my bill actually get passed in the senate nowadays. That's once next. I'm not feeling feels pretty good We are passing more progressive democratic bills through both houses. Of course we will see how many making through the governor's desk with or without a veto. That's always the next stage that we are now entering. And i think yes. The winds are shifting Progressively throughout the state of new york in we one democratic seats in traditionally red areas of upstate. New york and redistricting will take place before the next election cycle. And based on census data we lost population upstate gained downstate that traditionally has meant. You're gaining in blue areas. Losing red areas my mic conference is committed to being a statewide party recognizing that it's a big tent and that the issues for syracuse and rochester and buffalo are very different than the issues in the hudson valley or in western new york. And we want to be there Being responsive to everybody's issues even though we understand that will require different politics in different parts of the state. I for example. No not that much about farming although not as little as people think either to be honest and but i recognize that much of our state is agriculture and we have not been doing a good enough job at addressing agricultural issues. I actually went around the state talking about marijuana as good for farmers which farmers agree with. They were very excited about hamp and expansion of marijuana for farming reasons. We wanna make sure that we are being environmentally not just sound stewards but that we are upping the ante on everything. We do from an environmental perspective. Because i don't know about you. But i've been watching the weather in oregon and washington state in california the last week or so. I do really badly one hundred twenty degrees. Say we have to make sure that we are. We are upping the ante on everything we do on climate change and protecting our air and water. Let me ask you let me ask you this before. We come to egypt assessment on this the the power that the legislature exerted over the budget process. Was that significantly more. This time around than in the past was there. Has there been a major shift on that. At the governor in a weakened hand for multiple reasons was not able to push back as much as in the past and the legislature really drove the process. More this time around or or not the case you know..
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"krueger" Discussed on What's The [DATA] Point?
"In our safety nets for older new yorkers with endless things that didn't go right in nursing home settings and in various communities. So it's interesting. We look at a budget as a one year time line and then we talk about our we over. Are we under what we think's going to happen in two years. We're never really right because we're just guest debating anyway Things happen really quickly turns out especially when you hit a huge crisis like we just did and you have to be able to sort of chew gum and sing star spangled banner at the same time While you're figuring out what are the best answer. So i viewed this year's budget as an opportunity to look. Where do we think. New york is going in the future. Where do we hope we can get to and will be the best use of the various money that might be one time monies from the federal government versus rethinking revenue and expenditures on an ongoing basis. Just because we used to do it one way doesn't mean that's how we should be doing it going forward break thank you thanks very much a lot to unpack their senator. That was that was amazing. I do wanna come back tracking the money because you've been a leader in performance management legislation independent budget office. And so i do want to come back to. Let's stick on the fiscal for second in turn bring ej into the conversation the future budget gaps. We know about sixteen months ago. Something medicaid was exploding. And at what it's unbudgeted. We saw these. Nine billion dollar budget outs here. We are after the pandemic starting to subside. We're recovering and their tax increases. But the look at those budget gaps. They're almost unprecedented in their size relatives of the budget. There's so much smaller. So what gives is there any problem. Yes i the. There's the problem is even for is is further in the future but larger than ever i it was senator krueger said that one of the concerns is where we going in the future and i think i think that is the key concern that will probably view it in a different way or perhaps have different versions of the future. The governor had a quote at in his summing-up of the budget or his. Celebratory press conference where he said. This budget will set the trajectory of the state for the next ten years. I think that is precisely the problem. I think it does set the trajectory of the state for the next ten years. And i think we're it's where it sets. It is to begin in a couple of years to begin to go a trajectory that goes wildly beyond what the state can sustain a couple of numbers. That are really remarkable And they were updated. I think in the most recent state controllers analysis of the budget if you put together all of the the Stimulus and kovin relief plants..
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"krueger" Discussed on What's The [DATA] Point?
"The budget is down to zero in both the current year next year and about one and a half to two billion dollars in the out years which is much much smaller than what was projected kind of coming into budget. Thank you patrick senator krueger. The ground was really shifting as you were negotiating. This budget Describe a little sort of the problems you felt like you were solving what you accomplished You know sort of the big picture of of how it came together in what was what was what was shifting underneath you in the decisions that you knew came to in finalising this budget. At the end of march beginning of april well even started a year earlier. Which is really when kovin was hitting exactly as we were trying to complete that year's budget and we really did think the world was coming to an end in its own way at the time we didn't know how bad things were going to be. Things proved to get pretty bad. I think all of us who lived through cove in this country in the state would agree but we also didn't know what would happen with revenue as the economy seemed to be closing down overnight and what we would need to help fight kobe which turned out to be a lot of money for a lot of different purposes. So then you go forward a year or close to a year and we're trying to evaluate where we are going forward and we were seeing. You know the good news is it did appear that despite everything that had gone wrong for twelve fourteen months we were coming back faster than we originally imagined with revenues increasing harari and yet we have spent far more in many different than people imagined that we needed more. But this we need to rebuild and renew and really take this opportunity. We believed in the senate to evaluate where new york should be going and how it should be setting itself up for whatever that new normal is which are changes in our economy changes in our communities the recognition that we would need more money to strengthen our school systems so that if this happened again we were more prepared to have mental health services at available from our smallest children to our.
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"krueger" Discussed on What's The [DATA] Point?
"The budget is down to zero in both the current year next year and about one and a half to two billion dollars in the out years which is much much smaller than what was projected kind of coming into budget. Thank you patrick senator krueger. The ground was really shifting as you were negotiating. This budget Describe a little sort of the problems you felt like you were solving what you accomplished You know sort of the big picture of of how it came together in what was what was what was shifting underneath you in the decisions that you knew came to in finalising this budget. At the end of march beginning of april well even started a year earlier. Which is really when kovin was hitting exactly as we were trying to complete that year's budget and we really did think the world was coming to an end in its own way at the time we didn't know how bad things were going to be. Things proved to get pretty bad. I think all of us who lived through cove in this country in the state would agree but we also didn't know what would happen with revenue as the economy seemed to be closing down overnight and what we would need to help fight kobe which turned out to be a lot of money for a lot of different purposes. So then you go forward a year or close to a year and we're trying to evaluate where we are going forward and we were seeing. You know the good news is it did appear that despite everything that had gone wrong for twelve fourteen months we were coming back faster than we originally imagined with revenues increasing harari and yet we have spent far more in many different than people imagined that we needed more. But this we need to rebuild and renew and really take this opportunity. We believed in the senate to evaluate where new york should be going and how it should be setting itself up for whatever that new normal is which are changes in our economy changes in our communities the recognition that we would need more money to strengthen our school systems so that if this happened again we were more prepared to have mental health services at available from our smallest children to our.
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Boston Celtics Trade Kemba Walker to Oklahoma City Thunder
"And an NBA trade of note Today, Kimber walkers sent From Boston to a okay. See with the number one pick for Al Horford. Moses Brown in a second round pick. Okay, see, taking the remainder of Walker's exorbitant
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Osaka Won't Talk To Press At French Open, Citing Mental Health Concerns
"Body of tennis, the Women's Tennis Association, said that they would welcome dialogue today with the one of the best players on the tour, the world's number two player. Naomi Osaka. She made a decision Tom to boycott the news conference at Roland Garros for the French Open, and she's saying the nature of the questions negatively effects. Her mental well being. And so she understands his fines like you get fined. They have rules. You have two players could be fined up to 20 grand for skipping a media conference and she's cool with it. She said. She's okay with any sanction. Um, you know, she's she's you know, she made $55 million over the last year. So he's doing okay? Yeah, she's doing okay. Um, and she's used her platform in the past, You know, to highlight issues that are important to her. She's talked about police violence. She's talked about racial and inequality. Um, And she basically says I'm not going to the her argument is is that the questions are often times the same questions that she's been asked many times in the past. And bottom line is the questions, make her uncomfortable and make her doubt herself. And she finished up her comments by saying, I'm not going to subject myself to people that doubt me. And there's been.
Morning Edition
New York Lawmakers Expected To Legalize Recreational Marijuana
"15th state along with the District of Columbia to legalize recreational marijuana. State lawmakers are expected to vote on that later today. Officials say they hope to create a regulated industry with tens of thousands of jobs while ending racially biased drug arrests. NPR's Brian Mann reports. Police across New York State still arrest hundreds of people every year for possessing small personal use amounts of pot studies show people of color are far more likely to be prosecuted for marijuana possession. Senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat from Manhattan, says her bill will end that. I think it's a huge change. We're going to be a sponging the criminal records. Of tens of thousands of people. Governor Andrew Cuomo says he'll sign the measure. His office estimates annual tax revenues from legal pot sales could eventually reached $350 million a year with his many as 60,000 jobs. Cougar says the law directs those benefits to neighborhoods hit hard by addiction and high arrest rates. 40% of the revenues That will come out of the taxes from legal marijuana will go right back into those communities that were harmed by the drug wars. Critics of this bill acknowledge pot legalization is unstoppable. Sandra Doorly is a Republican prosecutor who heads the New York State District Attorneys Association. We understand that It's going to be reality. Doorly worries The measure doesn't give police clear authority to deal with motorists impaired by marijuana. If you legalize marijuana, and you stop someone who you believe is impaired, you know, how were we going to be able to prove it? Democrats agree It's hard to detect motorists impaired by marijuana, and they're backing new research to develop better roadside cannabis tests. Recreational use of marijuana remains a federal crime. Brian Mann
Morning Edition
New York lawmakers agree to legalize recreational marijuana
"Is one step closer to legal weed after Governor Cuomo and state legislative leaders say they've agreed on a bill to legalize a don't use marijuana. W. N. Y. C is Bridget Bergen reports. The proposed legislation says adults 21 older would be able to purchase marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes. The bill creates a new regulatory agency that would license cannabis retailers. Companies awarded a license. Then we need to find locations that would allow them to be dispensaries since the bill also includes an opt out provision for localities, so when will legal we'd be available, state Senator and Bill sponsor Liz Krueger says It could be awhile, but there's so many steps I think conservatively is 18 months. Before you're gonna have a store in New York you could walk into lawmakers could vote on the measure as soon as Tuesday.
Bullseye
New York lawmakers agree to legalize recreational marijuana
"New York is one step closer to legal weed. After Governor Cuomo and state legislative leaders said they've agreed on a bill to legalize adult use marijuana WN Y sees Bridget Bergen reports. The proposed legislation says adults 21 older would be able to purchase marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes. The bill creates a new regulatory agency that would license cannabis retailers. Companies awarded a license. Then we need to find locations that would allow them to be dispensaries since the bill also includes an opt out provision for localities, so when will legal we'd be available, state Senator and Bill sponsor Liz Krueger says It could be awhile, but there's so many steps I think conservatively is 18 months. Before you're gonna have a store in New York you could walk into lawmakers could vote on the measure as soon as
All Things Considered
New York lawmakers agree to legalize recreational marijuana
"Cuomo and State legislative leaders say they've agreed on the specifics of a bill to legalize adult use of marijuana in New York. The legislation would permit anyone 21 or older to purchase cannabis from a distant land recreational use. The bill would create a new regulatory agency and the governor's office says the adult use program would generate more than $350 million in annual tax revenue. State senator in long time. Legalization advocate Liz Krueger says she's almost ready to celebrate. I'm very excited. We got to hear. I think it's the best building entry. I needed to pass both houses. And be signed before it's real Tuesday is the Sooners state lawmakers could vote on the measure, which was officially introduced last night.
Schopp and Bulldog
Buffalo Sabres fire coach Ralph Krueger after 12-game skid
"Ralph Krueger has been relieved of his duties as sabers head coach. Same goes for assistant coach Steve Smith. Assistant Don Granado will serve as interim coach with development coaches met Alison Dan Girardi serving as the new assistants. Granados first game is interim coach will be tomorrow night for the Sabers first game of the year against the Boston Bruins. Puck drop will be at
Courtside with Seth Greenberg
NCAA Tournament West Preview
"It's ncaa tournament time we had championship. Week was absolutely spectacular. You had a championship game. That wasn't so spectacular in america conference by the big twelve was tremendous big. Ted was tremendous. Because you know what those two leagues are tremendous all season. Long games aren't games. they're events the acc was anti climactic but great for josh passenger and the greatest shield in the history of life. The big east to me was phenomenal. I mean patrick ewing. Not only does he no longer needed credential again but he got into madison square garden and walked away with four games in four days and his team played like an old vintage georgetown team. Pac twelve stolen a bid which was really cool. Wayne tinkle's got it was who was on the hot seat. It was so cool is good coach. A good person attack boil. Who's another great guy still going tournament. So i thought championship week was absolutely spectacular. Your take oh. I thought it was great. I look. I'm gonna tell you houston's legit at chance due to their games including the championship game in the ac. That is a legitimate. I was happy that drake dot in. I was happy that twenty five and four guy in. I thought that was terrific. I love the fact that the drew brothers are in the tournament. The demolishing of creighton shocked the living in. Hell on me. And says i'm telling you i like when you lose guys mclaughlin aquino record and next thing you know man. What are you doing better. The next year matt pain and getting himself in the top four seeds after losing two guys eastern and harms but overawe a look championship. Week was the sec. Tournament was off the charts with the championship. Game and college basketball delivers it delivers every damn nights. Let's go to the west ready. Let's do it all right now. Let's do this number one seat. I was thinking what games in the upper half of the west. Are you looking forward to see. I wanna see what. Oklahoma can do eight nine game now. Maybe it doesn't matter because you're gonna play gonzaga. But i think this i think if you're gonna play along krueger team whether you're konso martyn missouri. Who has struggled or whether you're gonzaga. You know you're going to play a very very good basketball team. And i had them earlier in the year they can shoot it. They defend it. They play hard. I don't think they're overly talented and the kid to get something done but lon kruger is so good at dictating pace. That if i'm sitting here with gonzaga i wanna lesser coach in my second round game assuming that they win. What do you got. Well you know i actually. I think missouri can win that game. A jeremiah tells me he's going to have to go out guard on out on a primitive 'cause they're playing brady at the five and they've run them all over the place on the other side though rate mattis gutter guard that dude on the block to is become a good player control martin's team when they're older and more mature and her physical they are talking tournament. Think about what he did tennessee. So you know this is going to be really good game because you've got a tough physical team in missouri. You've got a team that attacks match ups plays almost four guards in oklahoma. I'm actually leaning towards missouri in this match up. Well you're going to be wrong and that's okay you can be. It's okay. I can be wrong. It will be the first time won't be the last time and you know that's right. I don't have either. We'll on from barry. I but i touched on that but also got to say tony bennett said that most of his team is in quarantine south. Now i don't know about you but that preston kid that plays at ohio university. Ooh yeah he can go and all of a sudden. You're talking about a team that wait a second. I know i know. Virginia's good. I know virginia came on. I know they ended up with the one seat in the acc tournament. But seth you're playing against a hot as hell ohio university team. A team led by jeff bowls. Who frankly he's the perga- guide ohio you because he loves ohio you. He played there with the with the shock of the mac. But when you're playing a team in quarantine sat that tells me they're not practicing. That tells me this is gonna be a hats. This'll be a good game regardless.
Tolbert, Krueger and Brooks
Digital artwork sells for record $69M at Christie's
"Learn about NF tease. The price tag for some digital artwork is starting to rival classic paintings from Picasso and Monet. Mike Winkelmann. He's better known as people created a montage of 5000 days of digital art and then put it up for auction at Christie's. It's sold for a record $69 million unique Blockchain based digital image is part of the non fungible Token world or end empties are still being shunned by many in the art world as a speculative fat, But the eight figure price tag for the people Certainly caught the naysayers. Attention.
Tolbert, Krueger and Brooks
Disneyland and other California theme parks could reopen as soon as April
"As vaccinations ramp up and coping numbers stay low enough to help the state moved out of the purple tear. There will be significant restrictions. However, the parks can only open with 15% capacity and on Lee, California residents will be allowed in now. It's unclear how Parks will respond. Disneyland has announced they will
Tolbert, Krueger and Brooks
Target to open mini Apple shops inside 17 stores in latest move to woo customers
"They will be opening many Apple stores at 17 of their locations this month, including the West San Jose location and will expand to more targets this fall. The apple areas will resemble the actual Apple stores with Cool new lighting, more accessories, low tables where customers can try out the products and a staff with specialized training.
KNBR The Sports Leader
"krueger" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"Now back to Tom Tober with you, Larry Krueger, Rod Brooks told Bert Kruger and Brooks on KNBR 1045 at 16 be sports leader. Has been trophy. Ceremony is started. Even though it's being done virtually they're still going through the same pomp and circumstance where they make you wait. An hour 15 minutes for an announcement that could take place pretty instantly. So when it happens, we'll pass it along to you. You guys want Oh, go back and remember some dudes in our new And one day only segments. That guy won a Heisman Trophy. What do although I should make it Loo make an amendment real quick? Yes. Eric Crouch is a pointed out. Larry was right either needed play with for the Rams, whose wide receiver I was thinking of the other. Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost did play safety for the New York Jets. So I had my my Nebraska cubes. Confuse Scott Frost a little bit a little bit bigger, a little bit more physical. I guess that's why he was able to play safety in the in the NFL. So there you go. Now that now that no one cares about my four week old tab, and no one cares about my my My big Nebraska quarterback. Knowledge of ways. Stop! Don't beat yourself up. Secondly, You just learned me something, Tommy. I had no idea that white guys got you can't play quarterback in the league. So we're gonna put you in the secondary treatment. I had no idea that that was the thing and why it was Justin like me. I did not know that. Wow. Look at that now. No, no, no, not just for black people in man to man here crunching. Scott froze those guys. You know, we feel you they should. They should have a special mention during Black History month. But you guys, you guys pioneers, baby. I'm sorry, uh, human being Uh Robert Griffin and Johnny Manzo. No again. I'm judging these guys based on what they did not do in the pros, which is unfair, but I'm doing it anyway. You abdicated you remember, but show those two dudes. One Heisman trophies place only man tells the reason you renovated E think it's interesting handedly paid for it. There's more Heisman Trophy winners. It did nothing. Then there is Heisman Trophy winners that did something last house. We're told me he wanted to win a Super Bowl was Reggie Bush, and he was just hanging on with the saintly, even stories like CI, No Heisman Trophy winner, Georges I don't carry the same way as you used to know. How many Well over the last 30 years were, like, really dominant. All right, let's put it this way. How money? Well, I guess that would be Dominick's. I was going to say how many Heisman Trophy winners were as good as they were in college. But if they were as good as they were in college duh, then you would be a dominant NFL player because you were obviously dominant. In in college, but they're just man. The more you you're mentioning. Now, it's like they're just what's crazy rise, But But here, here's where we're starting to see a little bit of a change. Derrick Henry, and we haven't talked about him. I know, running back don't mean much in the NFL anymore, but the two seasons this guy has had, you know, 2000 yards. You just put up with the Titans. I mean, you know, touchdowns carries all of that kind of stuff. I mean, Derrick Henry has been on a tear You won the Heisman. 2015 Lamar Jackson won m V p last year and it's gonna be an interesting playoffs for Lamar Jackson. But I think we could say that these two guys specifically Henry at running back, he's at the top of Yeah, his profession. Um, I think we need to put some respect. Oh Cam Newton's name. You know, I mean, he made a business decision in the Super Bowl, not diving on that fumble That didn't look good for him, And it's kind of been downhill ever since. But when Cam Newton was right, Cam Newton was a serious, serious problem in the lead. And also back when he was in college..