On today's show:
- The Fire Department said that 16 people were injured after a shooting on a subway platform in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. Stephen Nessen, WNYC transportation reporter joins with the latest news.
- New York City Comptroller Brad Lander talks about his first 100 days in office, including his accomplishments and priorities, and reacts to the news of the shooting on a rush-hour subway train.
- Leana Wen, MD, emergency physician, professor at George Washington University, contributing columnist for The Washington Post, CNN medical analyst, former Baltimore Health Commissioner and the author of Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health (Metropolitan Books, 2021), discusses how people should calculate their risks as they go about their lives, more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and talks about the uptick in cases among well-known people in New York and Washington, D.C., the availability of COVID drugs and other related topics.
- As prospective college students weigh their financial aid packages, Ron Lieber, New York Times "Your Money" columnist and author of several books, including The Price You Pay for College (Harper, 2021), joins to discuss ways to negotiate for better tuition.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
