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Keys to the City with Anthony Weiner Red Apple Podcast
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Welcome to Keys to the City hosted by Anthony Weiner. A podcast about the problems facing New York City and the enduring power of ideas.
From existential threats to pet peeves, each week together we’ll resist the temptation to curse the darkness. Instead, we’ll try to light a candle by bringing to light things that have worked before or new ways to get things done.
So, if you find yourself muttering “there ought to be a law”; or “if only I were king for a day” or just something like “that’s been bugging me”, this show is for you.
Dropping every Thursday, Keys to the City will take on the big stuff like crime, education, and the environment. But we will also ponder some interesting ways to make the city a bit cleaner, a tad more livable and just all around better.
So where are we gonna get these ideas? These little pearls that are going to be the foundation of the show? Well, to start with, you can be sure that Anthony is going to lean heavily on the two books of ideas that he wrote when he was running for Mayor. There are 125 in total and the can be found here. Not all of them are still current – giving every school kid a Kindle seems sort of dated – and some ideas have been adopted since Anthony wrote them (yep, we see you ranked choice voting) , but there is a lot of gold in them there hills.
Anthony will also look at what works in other places. Sure New York is the best city in the world, but there is no shame in borrowing ideas from other, lesser places.
One other source of ideas with be the guests that will join Anthony from time to time to tell him the ideas are brilliant or that they just don’t add up.
Lawmakers, think tankers, or just regular folk who are uncommonly clever - there is no telling who will show up on Keys to the City
To read Anthony’s original Keys to the City books, click here and here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1J7DiPkwtLdsXRmpbFJQlcNG2iW1EkXVr?usp=sharing
To submit ideas of your own you can do it in the comments or by emailing us at Keystothecity@wabcradio.com.
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Episode 14 – Grading Ranked Choice Voting
Idea 44 was so good that it got adopted. Now expensive and divisive run off elections have been replaced by ranked choice voting. It's still a fairly new idea but we’ve seen it in action in elections in our city and in places as far flung as Alaska and Maine. This week, Anthony examines what we know and what is yet to be revealed about this new type of voting. To unpack the pros and the cons, we turned to a consummate legal pro. Jerry Goldfeder of Strook & Strook & Lavan literally wrote the book about election law and gives high grades to RCV.
To read Keys to the City, click here for the PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pUfBJdudI0hkZ-B4o5WGXRlpw0ktPAsw/view?usp=sharing
Got an idea for New York or your city, send me an email at keystothecity@wabcradio.com.
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Episode 13 – A Wee Bit of Help For Small Business
New York is a city of tall buildings and marquee companies. But the capital of big corporate is actually a town where most businesses are small. In fact, the anchor of our economy is the neighborhood store. In today's episode Anthony suggests one idea to make life easier for small businesses and one to make them hum with new customers. Our expert conversation is with Rob Walsh. Mr. Walsh was the longest serving Commissioner of the Department of Small Business Services and now is a lecturer, radio personality on 1010 WINS and leader of JGSC Group which helps neighborhood shopping strips thrive.
To read Keys to the City, click here for the PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pUfBJdudI0hkZ-B4o5WGXRlpw0ktPAsw/view?usp=sharing
Got an idea for New York or your city, send me an email at keystothecity@wabcradio.com.
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Episode 12 – Gimmie Shelter…That’s Affordable
Everyone can agree that New York is an expensive place to live, but what to do about it? There seems to be a structural imbalance between supply and demand. So what can the government do? What are the arrows in our civic quiver? Anthony takes a stab at updating one program and breathing new life into another. Along to bring a reality check is Hon. Gifford Miller. One time rivals for mayor, now they share a title : "elder statesman" but Mr. Miller is building on that at his company, Signature Urban Properties
To read Keys to the City, click here for the PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pUfBJdudI0hkZ-B4o5WGXRlpw0ktPAsw/view?usp=sharing
Got an idea for New York or your city, send me an email at keystothecity@wabcradio.com.
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Episode 11 – Assigning Accountability for our Schools
Some of the Keys have been adopted and some have been overtaken by time, but Idea #84 is as fresh and vital as ever – getting Albany out of our schools. We all know who is in charge of the school. It’s the principal, of course. But who oversees the policies governing our education of 1 million school kids in over 1,000 buildings? It’s complicated and maybe intentionally so. If you like blurry lines of authority and intragovernmental finger pointing, you won’t like today’s idea. Our guest this episode is perfectly positioned to help us figure this out. Quintessential New Yorker, former teacher and chairman of the Assembly Education Committee, Michael Benedetto of the Bronx came to this conversation well-armed.
To read Keys to the City, click here for the PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pUfBJdudI0hkZ-B4o5WGXRlpw0ktPAsw/view?usp=sharing
Got an idea for New York or your city, send me an email at keystothecity@wabcradio.com.
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Episode 10.1 – A Calm Consideration of Police Body Cameras
If you skipped most of the cacophony of the first take, Anthony tries to make amends with a conversation with a man who has quite nearly written the book about the implementation, adoption, and future of the policies around police body cameras. Dr. Rudolph Hall now has the title of Chief, but he has had many more in his more than 20 years in law enforcement. Calm, thoughtful and insightful is the perfect palate cleanser for whatever that last conversation was.
To read Keys to the City, click here for the PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pUfBJdudI0hkZ-B4o5WGXRlpw0ktPAsw/view?usp=sharing
Got an idea for New York or your city, send me an email at keystothecity@wabcradio.com.
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