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For such a small state, Connecticut is a powerhouse of outdoor recreation, fisheries, and conservation success stories that could serve as a model for the entire country. In this special episode, Tony is joined by Mason Trumbull, Deputy Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and Jeff Shaw, Director of the Office of Outdoor Industry and Experiences. Together, they reveal how Connecticut's innovative approach is turning ecological health into vibrant economic growth, demonstrating that sustainable fisheries and accessible outdoor spaces are the ultimate win-win.

This week, we welcome former Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Police, Ross Guenther APM.Across a 40-year career with Victoria Police, Ross held a wide range of roles, from frontline policing and training, to establishing the newly formed Counter Terrorism Command in 2015, and ultimately serving as Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety and Security.But before entering the police academy, Ross had an entirely different career - as a professional musician. He played in the house bands of television programs at the ABC and Channel 9, supported some of the biggest acts in Australia, and performed alongside legendary international artists including Shirley Bassey, Tina Turner and Barry White.It's a fascinating conversation, and a real pleasure to hear about his Life in the Law.www.greenslist.com.au/podcastwww.themelbournemap.com.au

Brynly Llyr has deep roots in fintech and blockchain — in-house at eBay, PayPal, and Ripple, where she served as one of the first general counsels in crypto, then founding team at Celo, then Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets at the World Economic Forum. Now she's Deputy Commissioner for Digital Financial Assets at the California DFPI, leading the rollout of the Digital Financial Assets Law, which goes live July 1, 2026, covering exchanges, custodians, stablecoin issuers, and crypto kiosks across the world's fourth-largest economy.Ari Redbord, TRM's Global Head of Policy, sits down with Brynly to talk through what California is actually trying to solve. IC3 data puts the state at the top of the country for crypto-related fraud losses, with serious harm to elderly residents and teenagers under 17. Her thesis: licensed intermediaries that recognize fraud patterns are the most powerful lever a regulator has.They also dig into how blockchain's public visibility changes what supervisors can see in real time — and what that means for every licensed business managing its own risk. The conversation covers AI's role in regulation, what success looks like a year from now, and the universal experience of feeding teenage boys.

As AI supercharges cyber threats, how can the "missing 99%" of small and medium enterprises protect themselves? Synopsis: On Wednesdays, The Straits Times takes a hard look at Singapore's social issues of the day with guests. Cybersecurity is undergoing a fundamental shift. For a long time, it was treated as a dark art – a deeply technical problem left to IT teams and discussed in jargon few others understood. But as the threat landscape has evolved, major breaches are forcing the conversation into the boardroom, turning cyber risk into a critical matter of corporate governance and liability. While multinational corporations can afford elite digital defences, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) – the 99 per cent of our economy – are often left exposed. Increasingly, SMEs are targeted not just for their own data, but as backdoors into the larger corporate and national networks they serve. If our current security playbook only works for the biggest players, how do we protect the rest? In this episode, ST’s Deputy Opinion Editor Bhavan Jaipragas speaks with Gaurav Keerthi, co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm StrongKeep, and former Deputy Commissioner of the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore. Highlights (click/tap above): 1:55 Why does cybersecurity switch people off? 5:06 Are boards stepping up to AI threats? 7:25 Why are SMEs still exposed to threats? 10:05 The "Ikea model" for affordable cybersecurity 15:45 Can state-linked cyber threats be solved? 25:12 Cyber risks and opportunities of agentic AI 28:27 Critical actions for boards, SMEs, and users. 31:41 Balancing online security and everyday usability Read ST’s Opinion section: https://str.sg/w7sH Host: Bhavan Jaipragas (bhavan@sph.com.sg) Produced and edited by: Amirul Karim Executive producers: Danson Cheong and Lynda Hong Follow In Your Opinion Podcast here and get notified for new episode drops: Channel: https://str.sg/w7Qt Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/wukb Spotify: https://str.sg/w7sV Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg --- Follow more ST podcast channels: All-in-one ST Podcasts channel: https://str.sg/wvz7 Get more updates: http://str.sg/stpodcasts The Usual Place Podcast YouTube: https://str.sg/theusualplacepodcast --- Get The Straits Times app, which has a dedicated podcast player section: The App Store: https://str.sg/icyB Google Play: https://str.sg/icyX --- #inyouropinionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As AI supercharges cyber threats, how can the "missing 99%" of small and medium enterprises protect themselves? Synopsis: On Wednesdays, The Straits Times takes a hard look at Singapore's social issues of the day with guests. Cybersecurity is undergoing a fundamental shift. For a long time, it was treated as a dark art – a deeply technical problem left to IT teams and discussed in jargon few others understood. But as the threat landscape has evolved, major breaches are forcing the conversation into the boardroom, turning cyber risk into a critical matter of corporate governance and liability. While multinational corporations can afford elite digital defences, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) – the 99 per cent of our economy – are often left exposed. Increasingly, SMEs are targeted not just for their own data, but as backdoors into the larger corporate and national networks they serve. If our current security playbook only works for the biggest players, how do we protect the rest? In this episode, ST’s Deputy Opinion Editor Bhavan Jaipragas speaks with Gaurav Keerthi, co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm StrongKeep, and former Deputy Commissioner of the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore. Highlights (click/tap above): 1:55 Why does cybersecurity switch people off? 5:06 Are boards stepping up to AI threats? 7:25 Why are SMEs still exposed to threats? 10:05 The "Ikea model" for affordable cybersecurity 15:45 Can state-linked cyber threats be solved? 25:12 Cyber risks and opportunities of agentic AI 28:27 Critical actions for boards, SMEs, and users. 31:41 Balancing online security and everyday usability Read ST’s Opinion section: https://str.sg/w7sH Host: Bhavan Jaipragas (bhavan@sph.com.sg) Produced and edited by: Amirul Karim Executive producers: Danson Cheong and Lynda Hong Follow In Your Opinion Podcast here and get notified for new episode drops: Channel: https://str.sg/w7Qt Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/wukb Spotify: https://str.sg/w7sV Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg --- Follow more ST podcast channels: All-in-one ST Podcasts channel: https://str.sg/wvz7 Get more updates: http://str.sg/stpodcasts The Usual Place Podcast YouTube: https://str.sg/theusualplacepodcast --- Get The Straits Times app, which has a dedicated podcast player section: The App Store: https://str.sg/icyB Google Play: https://str.sg/icyX --- #inyouropinionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and deputy commissioner for the Department of Public Works, Karen Hoak on the upcoming road construction season in Erie County full 468 Fri, 22 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000 0mqdem5OXAYoiABtRQoxwGvLkbnIP3yE news,wben,mark poloncarz,erie county,road construction,erie county department of public works,karen hoak WBEN Extras news,wben,mark poloncarz,erie county,road construction,erie county department of public works,karen hoak Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and deputy commissioner for the Department of Public Works, Karen Hoak on the upcoming road construction season in Erie County Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc.

 As Minnesota advances toward its goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 — what are some of the most actionable and cost-effective decarbonization opportunities for this sector?   In April, Fresh Energy and The 2035 Initiative co-authored a new study, “Advancing Industrial Electrification in Minnesota,” that charts practical policy pathways for decarbonizing the manufacturing sector.  Listen to this latest episode to hear from the report's authors, including The 2035 Initiative's Dr. Leah Stokes and Dr. Eric Masanet and Fresh Energy's Brandon Isakson, with opening remarks from Pete Wyckoff, Deputy Commissioner of Energy Resources at the Minnesota Department of Commerce and Kate Knuth, Climate Director at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. The group will dig into the details of the report, discuss policy pathways, and answer audience questions. Resources:Download the studyView a recording of the webinarFresh Energy's mission is to shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies. Together we are working toward a vision of a just, prosperous, and resilient future powered by a shared commitment to a carbon-neutral economy. Learn about Fresh Energy's work and our bold "Vision 2030: Fresh Energy's Strategic Framework" at our website fresh-energy.org.Follow us on Social Media!Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/freshenergytoday/Bluesky:  https://bsky.app/profile/freshenergy.bsky.socialFacebook:  https://www.facebook.com/freshenergytodayLinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/fresh-energy/

Good morning from Pharma Daily: the podcast that brings you the most important developments in the pharmaceutical and biotech world. Today, we're diving into a series of significant shifts and advancements shaping our industry. Kicking off with a notable change in leadership, the resignation of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary signals an important realignment within the U.S. regulatory landscape. As the FDA grapples with complex challenges in drug approval and public health policy, this transition may influence future regulatory strategies. Makary's departure follows speculation about political tensions, with reports suggesting former President Trump considered his dismissal. Taking over as interim leader is Deputy Commissioner for Food Kyle Diamantas, whose expertise in food regulation might redirect the agency's approach toward drug approvals. This shift comes at a pivotal time as the FDA emphasizes real-world evidence and adaptive trial designs to enhance clinical efficiency. The leadership change not only reflects internal dynamics but also underscores how policy directions can impact drug development and patient access to new therapies. Meanwhile, strategic partnerships and market movements are reshaping industry dynamics. Pfizer and Arvinas have teamed up with Rigel Pharmaceuticals in a deal spotlighting targeted breast cancer therapies. With an upfront payment of $85 million for licensing Veppanu and potential milestone payments up to $320 million, this alliance strengthens Pfizer's oncology portfolio amid a growing focus on precision medicine. In contrast, Bayer's Eylea faces a 24% sales decline due to biosimilar competition, illustrating a broader challenge for companies dependent on established biologics. This trend highlights the necessity for innovation within ophthalmic treatments to maintain market position. Alkermes marks a significant milestone as its drug Lumryz successfully meets phase 3 trial endpoints for a rare sleep disorder. Following its acquisition of Avadel Pharmaceuticals, Alkermes is poised to expand its sleep disorder treatment offerings, providing new options where few alternatives exist. Cross-border collaborations are also gaining traction. Bristol Myers Squibb's $15 billion partnership with Hengrui Pharma leverages China's rapid R&D capabilities to advance 13 early-stage programs. Such alliances exemplify how global pharmaceutical giants are tapping into emerging markets to accelerate development timelines and enrich research pipelines. Regulatory efforts are evolving too, with the European Union pushing initiatives to enhance manufacturing autonomy and mitigate drug shortages within member states. This move addresses supply chain vulnerabilities exposed by recent global disruptions, aiming to secure critical medicine supplies through increased local production. AstraZeneca's challenges with immunogenicity issues in their endocrine disorder treatment underscore ongoing hurdles in biologics development. Despite significant investment, the molecule fell short against competitors like Ascendis Pharma's Yorvipath, highlighting the complexities of overcoming immune responses in therapeutic efficacy. Roche has achieved European approval for its second Alzheimer's disease test in collaboration with Eli Lilly, advancing diagnostic capabilities for this challenging condition. Earlier diagnosis can significantly impact treatment outcomes, marking a step forward in managing Alzheimer's disease effectively. Boehringer Ingelheim's €407 million investment in Immunitas Therapeutics demonstrates commitment to chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The focus on first-in-class biologics aligns with broader trends targeting unmet medical needs through innovative approaches. As we delve deeper into scientific advancements, Inhibrx Biosciences' phase 2 trial results offer promising developments in oncology treatment. Their combSupport the show

Our latest installment of The UnPopulist Live took place on Friday, April 24, when senior editor Berny Belvedere sat down with Center for New Liberalism co-founder Jeremiah Johnson and New York City New Liberals political director Tibita Kaneene to discuss NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's first 100-plus days in office.What follows is the full video and transcript (lightly edited for flow and clarity) of the conversation. We hope you enjoy.Berny Belvedere: Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Berny Belvedere, senior editor at The UnPopulist. I'm joined by Jeremiah Johnson of the Center for New Liberalism. Jeremiah, tell us about your newsletter.Jeremiah Johnson: I write a blog called Infinite Scroll where I talk about the politics of the social internet—the ways that social media is changing culture and politics and how we discuss things. It's a little bit unserious nonsense, and a little bit very serious stuff.Belvedere: As all good cultural commentary is, so you're within the acceptable range. Tibita, why don't you introduce yourself a little bit?Tibita Kaneene: Hi, I'm Tibita Kaneene. I'm the political director of the New York City chapter of the Center for New Liberalism. Belvedere: The topic today is New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. As liberals, we're [naturally] interested in how he's doing as mayor. I was hoping we could start with something that Mamdani himself said at an event marking his 100 days in office, which was about 10 days ago. I have a quote from Mamdani that sets up the first question I want to think about together with you—on this issue of democratic socialism versus other types of liberalism out there today, like an abundance variant or even more mainstream liberalism.So here are Mamdani's own words: “On January 1st, I told New Yorkers that City Hall would hold a singular purpose—to make this city belong to more of its people than it did the day before. For 102 days, we have endeavored to do exactly that.” And he cited achievements that he thinks fulfill that claim, such as the opening of new childcare centers and buses running faster. After he did that, he said: “That is the change that government can deliver.” And this is the critical part: “It's the change that democratic socialism can deliver.” He said: “I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist.”Sen. Bernie Sanders, whom Mamdani brought in for that 100-day event, said: “I have been on platforms with hundreds and hundreds of mayors and all kinds of public officials. This is the first time I've ever been introduced by someone who talked proudly about democratic socialism.”I want to start on this theme. Thoughts?Kaneene: I think it's interesting that the two accomplishments he highlighted were delivering actual positive change, abundance type change. More schools, more seats in preschool—the whole idea of abundance is that we should have more good things, and that government should be functional and competent. And then the buses operating better: more and better transit is a pretty fundamental abundance issue. Belvedere: Just to follow up on that point: he promised both faster and free busing, and he's been able to deliver on one of the two—on “faster,” but not “free.”Kaneene: Yeah. There's this idea going around: “affordability in the front, abundance in the back.” Affordability is a very popular campaign issue and idea, but it's also an empirical goal. So once that's established, to deliver on it you have to focus on consequences as opposed to ideological or rules-based things. You have to actually make the rent cheaper. [It's not enough] to merely enact policies that can be seen as pro-tenant and anti-landlord—they have to have the effect of making housing better, cheaper, more plentiful. Now that he's in office, he has to do that. Democratic socialism is a broad idea, but when it gets down to brass tacks and you're an executive, then you have to actually do things—appoint competent people and enact policies that actually have results. I think that's what his challenge is, and what he's doing for the most part.Johnson: The grand rhetorical gestures are what they are, and he has a point of view on how he views the world. I am not a socialist, but if you are going to tell me that I'm going to have a socialist mayor, probably the variant that I would want is what has sometimes been called sewer socialism. This comes from Milwaukee. Generations ago, they had a couple of mayors who called themselves socialist, but rather than focusing on revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat, they really focused on civic governance. How do we make the city work better? How do we provide public infrastructure? How do we make the sewers operate without overflowing? And by solving practical problems, they maintained their popularity.That is what I see Mamdani doing, at least in the first 100 days. He's not been all that focused on the big rhetorical flourishes, the big ideological ideas. He'll talk about them if he's asked. He'll mention it in a speech. But if you're in New York and you see what's actually happening and you see the things he's doing on the ground, a lot of it is just more like: “We've got a big sidewalk shed problem and I'm going to tackle it.” Or we had a big multi-week blizzard here in New York and he had a campaign about shoveling the snow faster than it's ever been shoveled before. Just competent, good governance stuff.I think that's what's allowed him to maintain his popularity thus far. The question is, as he moves deeper into his term, past the first 100 days, as he starts to actually focus more and more on the grand ideological projects, the publicly owned grocery stores, the free buses, all these big ideas that he has—are those going to work as well as the more basic stuff has worked? Because no matter what you call it, everybody likes it when city government functions efficiently. What comes after that is not quite as clear.Belvedere: I think a fair assessment of Mamdani would have to include that he is taking a few shots here—not just the kinds of things that might be dismissed as [Band-Aids]. They've attempted to put a plan in place for free childcare, and they're extending that to younger and younger ages—for the first time, two-year-olds are in play for getting free childcare. That's not a small thing. That's not like filling a pothole. But he is including enough of that other stuff that makes me think there's going to be a significant element of incrementalist-style change that he's going to produce, and then there will be a battle about what is driving that—is some kind of democratic socialist vision driving it, or is this mainstream liberalism or abundance liberalism dressed up as something else?“There's this idea going around: ‘affordability in the front, abundance in the back.' Affordability is a very popular campaign issue and idea, but it's also an empirical goal. So once that's established, to deliver on it you have to focus on consequences as opposed to ideological or rules-based things. You have to actually make the rent cheaper. [It's not enough] to merely enact policies that can be seen as pro-tenant and anti-landlord—they have to have the effect of making housing better, cheaper, more plentiful. Now that he's in office, he has to do that. Democratic socialism is a broad idea, but when it gets down to brass tacks and you're an executive, then you have to actually do things—appoint competent people and enact policies that actually have results.” — Tibita KaneeneI think all of us invested in the wider Mamdani discourse have to keep a couple of things in mind at all times. First—and this is the thing from which all other evaluative mistakes about Mamdani flow—you have to know that he is committed to the advancement of democratic socialism. It's not just something he's flirting with, it's not something incidental. Time and again, he brings this up. Now, his actions might be different, but we're just talking about how he's casting his own story and the story of his government.Every politician at this level is capable of downplaying philosophical influences. They know how to make passing nods to their past associations or affiliations while simultaneously creating distance from those views now. They all know how to do that. Mamdani could easily, if he wanted, tell a compelling story about how the ideology was critical to his formation and that he will keep with him the good parts—kind of like Obama after the Reverend Wright situation—but that he owes the people of New York a commitment to their well-being, not a commitment to a political program. Or he could say that what matters are results, not labels. There are a thousand ways for a politician to put a philosophical influence in the passenger seat, the rear seat, or even outside the car entirely. But Mamdani is fully leaning in rhetorically to the advancement of democratic socialism. So the idea that it was empty campaign rhetoric, and that he would, once in office, pivot to a rhetorical downplaying of democratic socialism's influence on his decision-making—that idea should at this point be put to bed.When we think about that, the second thing naturally comes up about Mamdani, especially for those of us who really want to analyze him correctly. There's a lot of people out there who weaponize him as a prop in their broader culture war takes. But for those of us doing our best to give his mayorship a good-faith assessment—we have to focus on the things that he's doing, not on the story he's telling about the things that he's doing. We have to not worry so much about socialism as a term. What he does matters more than what he says. That's not a grand philosophical conclusion, but I think it has particular application to Mamdani in one extra way. Given that he's rhetorically committed to advancing democratic socialism, the invocations of it will continue—those won't go away. But here's the really interesting thing: he'll find ways to frame his actions and policies—even ones that aren't exclusively democratic socialist—as though socialism is the thing driving them.Johnson: Well, yeah, this is what happens when you win an election and you're a young, popular guy and you have a very good social media team—you get to set the terms of the debate. You get to set the framing through which you are viewed. And that's how things operate in the early days. But in the long run, it's hard to hide from the results. Whether you want to or not, four years from now—three and a half, I guess—he's going to be running for reelection. People are going to be asking: “Did my rent actually go down? Did groceries get less expensive? Is the city well run?”The free childcare thing, right now, is just a very limited pilot—it's like 2,000 seats. They have plans to expand it to the whole city, but for now it's very limited. The benefit of popularity is that it gives you a little bit of a leash. It lets you kick your own team to some extent. You can betray the cause a little bit and they'll forgive you. But ultimately, you do have to succeed. You do have to actually make things better. And that's the open question: Is there going to be enough funding to actually make free childcare a thing city-wide? Or is it going to remain a limited pilot?Belvedere: I agree—it's empirically going to be borne out whether he can achieve the things [he's promised]. He'll need to. We'll see in the data whether he's succeeding. But this actually happens more subtly than just, “let's check to see if the rents have gone down.” Think about the term you brought up—”sewer socialism.” That is a subtle way for him to retain the democratic socialist mold even though he's talking about things that mayors from totally different political persuasions would be doing also.Years ago, when Pete Buttigieg was first emerging as a candidate for [national political office], he went on Ezra Klein's podcast. Klein gave him a chance to talk about what he was proud of accomplishing as mayor. Buttigieg said: “filling potholes.” He expressed how it can seem silly and mundane, but that it makes people's lives materially better. He was giving an incrementalist pitch for what he was doing. If Mamdani is doing the same things, but leaning into the frame that instead encompasses all of that under democratic socialism—even when a lot of the policies are the kinds of things that candidates from other persuasions do—that's why I'm saying it's not so much the words or how he labels what he's doing but the actual things he's doing that matters.Johnson: What's interesting about that is this is very different from how democratic socialism normally operates in the United States. Because the median person who is a democratic socialist and is in a position of public power is a member of Congress. We don't have a lot of extremely far-left, explicitly socialist mayors, but we do have a lot of the Squad [in D.C.]—your AOC, your Bernie Sanders, that group of people. And the incentives when you are in Congress are frankly to just simply be as extreme as you'd like. You're in a deep blue district, probably D+70, and so you just need to be as pure and say as many outlandish things as you want to. There's no punishment for any of that.But being an executive is different. We're already seeing this with the budget hole that New York City faces. Mamdani has a budget hole that he constitutionally has to fix. New York City cannot run deficits. So he has to fix that, and there's a limited number of ways he can do it. He can't just pick the policy he wants. There are state laws about which taxes can be raised and which cannot. So he needs the cooperation of the governor and the legislature if he wants to do certain things.When he made a video about, “well, we're going to increase property taxes on second houses,” he made sure to highlight a particular person's $200 million mansion. But now that guy is upset that he got singled out and is saying, “maybe I'm going to cancel my $6 billion planned center in New York and take it somewhere else.” Actions have consequences when you are an executive in a way that they very much do not when you are a legislator. So that's something to watch—he's going to face a lot more constraints than are typical for his kind of politician.Kaneene: Yeah, that's true. I think we've seen him be very practical on policy [issues]—the biggest example would be the SEQRA reform at the state level that's been proposed by Kathy Hochul. He supported her version. If you look at it relative to other U.S. states, it's one of the best environmental review reform bills—better than California's, for example.Belvedere: What is SEQRA?Kaneene: It's the State Environmental Quality Review Act. It's an environmental review required for any project, be it housing or energy, and it generally slows things down a lot. Its purview extends far beyond things that you and I might describe as environmental, and it's a huge source of red tape. The state legislature was trying to attach a prevailing wage requirement to that bill, which would have made building housing particularly expensive. Mamdani did not support that. Carl Heastie, who's the assembly speaker, is not a DSA person—he's to the right of Mamdani. You could see a world where Mamdani would attach to that proposal in opposition to Gov. Hochul, but he did not. And it worked: just yesterday, the State Assembly removed the prevailing wage, and that battle has been won. So SEQRA will probably go through now with no prevailing wage.“Some of this is messaging strategy. Mamdani comes from a family in the arts. His mom is a professional filmmaker. His videos are very well produced. He understands clipping culture—what really matters is not the event itself, it's the 20-second clip that comes out of it that will get played a million times on social media. Part of it is just the messaging strategy itself. But I also think—look at what Mamdani doesn't do. He doesn't dress weird, he doesn't try to do memes. His accounts never post memes. He's never dressing in funny outfits. He's not cursing. He's well-dressed and presentable and optimistic and he talks like he wants to change things. I think there's an impulse among middle-aged, moderate liberals sometimes to be like, ‘To chase the kids, we've got to do the memes. Someone get me a 20-year-old who knows memes for my internet account.' And it's just very cringe-worthy. It's terrible. What people respond to is when you believe what you're saying.” — Jeremiah JohnsonAnother thing—shortly after the election, a DSA candidate named Chi Ossé announced that he was going to take on Hakeem Jeffries, who's the Democratic leader in the House, in a primary challenge. And Mamdani not only declined to endorse—he publicly said, “You should not run.” He went to a DSA meeting and made a speech saying, “We should not endorse Ossé.” And Ossé actually dropped out. So that is him going to bat, not for a DSA person, but for a centrist Democratic leader. He's done very practical things both on the politics and on the broad policy side that I would say deviate from purely ideological DSA framing.Johnson: I want to give the two possible paths forward if you are Mamdani, speaking in broad generalities. I think what a successful Mamdani mayorship looks like is: he essentially uses his popularity to kick in the teeth of certain special interests. Political popularity lets you do things that piss off your own side, and they'll forgive you for it. If Mamdani wants to take on certain union requirements—New York has hundreds of regulations about when you have to use union labor, and it drives up costs and there's a lot of bureaucracy around it—if he wanted to take some of that on, the left would forgive him because he's so charismatic and popular among his base, and it would lower costs. Whether it's the environmental laws that Tibita is talking about, or unions, or getting rid of the community board veto that makes it so hard to build housing—using his popularity to kill off some progressive sacred cows could let him get a lot accomplished.The other thing that could happen is that he falls into the “everything bagel” paradigm—where, “I want to maintain my popularity, so I'm not going to try to piss off anybody in my coalition. I'll give the environmentalists all the environmental regulations they want, I'll give the unions everything they want, I'll give this group and that group” … until you end up in the same place the Biden administration ended up. They passed a lot of really ambitious legislation without actually being able to accomplish any of it because of this thicket of red tape, this kind of anti-abundance approach. There's a middle ground in between, but those are the two paths I see in terms of how he actually uses and leverages his current popularity. It's an open question. It's still early days.Belvedere: So, Tibita, I wanted to bring up the piece that you wrote for us a while back, where you did a profile of Mamdani.What I thought was brilliant about that piece—and I hadn't seen it anywhere else—was that you took the abundance liberalism frame, assessed his democratic socialist tendencies and some early manifestations of what that could look like, looked at some of his projected hiring, and assessed what his mayorship was trending toward. I wanted to see if you had a follow-up to your own pre-Mamdani-in-office assessment now that he's governing. The title was: “Will Mamdani Govern More as a Democratic Socialist or as an Abundance Liberal?” And the subtitle was: “His policy evolution and the team he's assembling suggests that he could be moving in a market-friendly direction.” What do you think about that now?Kaneene: Sure. So that piece came out three days before the election. On election day, Mamdani came out in support of the pro-housing initiatives on the ballot. Those were very abundance-oriented. We already thought he supported them, but that was good confirmation. Then his first deputy mayor, Fuleihan, is just a very experienced, very competent person to run the city. He's not ideological—he's competent, has experience under a variety of past administrations; he's older, senior, knows a lot of people, and just helps get things done. Would be a good deputy mayor for a Democrat of a variety of political stripes. His Deputy Mayor for Housing, Leila Bozorg, is just an amazing person. She was Deputy Commissioner of HPD. Everyone there who I know thinks she's amazing. The most prominent DSA person would be Cea Weaver—she's a longtime tenant advocate. But there's really not a super ideological DSA person in the senior executive team.Then I mentioned some of the things he's done from a policy standpoint. On the rent freeze—since that piece came out, he's reconciled somewhat with the guidelines board. They're voting on May 7. They're probably going to freeze it for a year. But he has had to come up with ways to offset the rent freeze by lowering costs for landlords. He looked at the math, he has good advisors around him, and so for the first year he's going to provide some relief on insurance costs. Affordability in the front, but abundance in the back in the sense that he has to make the math work. He can't actually force landlords to lose money because many of these buildings are already underwater. What would happen is we'd just lose supply because these buildings would fail to operate.Belvedere: Let me ask you about that, because “abundance in the back”—abundance is very far in the back there. I don't know many YIMBY advocates who on this point would say the answer is to freeze rent.Kaneene: Yeah, I mean—among his housing policies, it's the most problematic. That's why I focused on it in the piece. It's a price control, which reduces supply, which is counterproductive for trying to increase housing supply and thereby reduce the price of housing. Now, he has done some other positive supply-side things. For example, the ELURP—the Expedited Land Use Review Procedure—he's actually used that process to approve a housing development in the Bronx that was previously blocked by Vicky Paladino, the only MAGA city council member who, prior to the ballot initiatives, was able through member deference to unilaterally block development in her district. She even made a speech saying, “before, I blocked it; now because of this expedited process, I'm not able to block it.” So she's letting it happen. So that's a victory. He was able to green-light new housing supply within the first few months based on a new law that he has shown no shyness in using.There are a bunch of other projects. There's one in my community board district, the Bloomingdale Library, where they put out an RFP for a private developer to come in, build a new library and build a bunch of housing—mainly market rate with some affordable housing built in—at no cost to the city. He also has the Sunnyside Yards, a project in Queens above a rail yard that should produce over 12,000 homes. He famously went to see Trump at the White House and convinced him to sign on.Belvedere: I want to get to his relationship with Trump in a second. But first, you've given us good information about how Mamdani is doing on the housing front, and you've mentioned some things you wish he'd do differently. Let's move on to some of his food policies for a second. He had the food vendor reforms, and then the grocery store stuff. He wants essentially a publicly run store—one per borough?Kaneene: Yeah, one per borough.Belvedere: Maybe that's an incremental approach where he wants more over time, but the plan is for one per borough for now. Some essential goods would be at a significant discount, and not necessarily all products. The rest would be at normal price. Thoughts?Johnson: Yeah, I think this has the potential to quietly undermine … and none of this has broken ground yet, none of this is happening as of right now, but there's a plan, and the details of the plan do not fill me with confidence. What you need to know is that grocery stores, by their nature, are a very competitive, very low-margin business. This is already a fiercely competitive field. It's very hard to make money in it. And so anybody with any sort of rational expectation here should expect the publicly owned grocery stores to lose a lot of money, because they're going to be poorly run relative to traditional private grocery stores. And maybe you just don't care—maybe you're like, “I don't care if they lose money because I just value having a public grocery store.” But this is one of those things where it really easily could turn into that second scenario I talked about: he makes sure to give unions a lot of giveaways when he's building this type of grocery store, the actual building of the thing takes twice as long as we thought and twice as much money because of all the rules we had to follow.“I think there is moral clarity. I don't think there's been any moral compromise. I think that [Mamdani] can say, ‘Trump, I want you to pay for this housing development in Queens,' and morally there's been no compromise at all. … he still says Trump is a fascist. He still speaks out against a lot of his policies. I don't think there's been any moral compromise. I think he's like a moral beacon in a time where we don't really have any kind of moral leadership in the executive branch in Washington.” — Tibita KaneeneHe's already talking about the one they want for Manhattan. They've picked out a site. It's going to be something like three years and an obscene amount of money—far more money than it should take. Thirty million dollars to build one grocery store, which is far above what it would cost a private actor. And on top of that, the original justification for this whole thing was that there are food deserts in the city. Where he's chosen to build it is not a food desert. There's like five grocery stores within a 10-minute walk of this place.Belvedere: He talks about people being priced out of essential goods. And so he would need to substantiate that in a way that justifies this kind of cost and disruption.Johnson: We have tools to address that. If people can't afford food, that's why SNAP exists, that's why food stamps exist. Giving people money is such an easier solution than trying to build an entire public-sector grocery store that is going to be terribly run. Every time anything happens at that grocery store, the media is going to pounce on it. There's going to be shoplifting. If Mamdani lets them shoplift, it turns into a national story. If he has them arrested, also a story—that pisses off the left. There are landmines all over this, and it seems to me like he's going to end up stepping on some of them. There's going to be needless scandals about how they were built, which contractors got cushy deals. If you have a limited amount of political capital, one grocery store per borough is meaningless. It doesn't do anything. Why would you waste your time on this?Belvedere: And what you were saying, when you called food assistance just the easier option—not only is it the easier option, but it's the option where there is the least amount of state intervention required to achieve the eventual goal of getting people these goods. You don't have to have a state-run market—you can give people the tool that they use to then exchange at that market. It's a more back-end kind of assistance. But it also, as you were saying, allows you to focus on a whole lot of other things you said that you wanted to do for the city, rather than engaging in something where, yes, you're connecting a campaign promise to an actual thing that you're doing—there's consistency there, you can win from that—but the potential pitfalls you noted could really be an albatross. And as a different kind of objection to just “easier”: as liberals, we want to do the least government-involved version that we can whenever we can.Kaneene: I'm a little more sanguine about it. I'm agnostic about whether we should have a state grocery store or not. The main thing for me is I don't think it's going to provide any savings, for the reasons Jeremiah said—they're low-margin businesses. This one is a 17-minute walk from a Costco. You're not going to beat the ability to use your SNAP card and order from Amazon. All that being said, this was a campaign promise he focused on. I think during the campaign he realized that these stores are not going to actually be able to provide cheaper food without the city simply taking a big loss—and that's why he kept repeating that it's going to be one per borough, it's going to be a pilot. So I think it's something that he needs to do. He'll struggle to break even, he'll do his five, and the positive side is it will actually prove that these grocery store chains, whatever you might think about them, are operating pretty efficiently. And we might have reasons to hate Amazon, rightly or wrongly, but that's actually the cheapest food you can get. So I don't think it's as terrible as maybe Jeremiah thinks.But I do share the concern of it becoming a bigger issue, where he says now we're going to have publicly owned gas stations. I don't think there's any risk of that. I would bet money there's not going to be more than five. There might not even be five.Johnson: And my thing is more just—look, this is not going to sink the city, the fact that we try this experiment with five grocery stores. This city of nine million people will be fine. But it's one of those things that if I were him, if I put myself in his shoes trying to accomplish his goals, I would not want to waste my time on this, because there are just landmines everywhere. You're going to get caught up in some extremely stupid controversy—some worker at the store is going to complain that their boss mistreated them. And all of a sudden, it becomes DEFCON 5 because you're a socialist and how can you not side with the workers? There are so many things like that that have the potential to sap away your political capital. Why would you want to spend your political capital on something that frankly does not matter? It will not make food more affordable for nine million New Yorkers. It will be a cute little thing for like a couple hundred people who live near it. Why are you wasting your time on it?Kaneene: The base wants it. So he has to—while he's doing all the efficient and effective things that we want him to do, he does have to maintain his base. There are a lot of people who, if you ask them—casual people who don't follow politics—“name three things that Mamdani says he's going to do,” they would say: freeze the rent, fast and free buses, and grocery stores. They might not know anything else about him.Belvedere: And there's a listener who just chimed in and said: “I thought the idea was to bring fresh food to food deserts, not replace grocery stores.” That tees off a question about Mamdani that we'll find out as his mayorship continues: is this incrementalist approach—this sewer socialism, now recast in a positive light as something worth doing, this more bite-sized approach to reform—is it a beginning point to a far broader vision for how things need to be organized and done? Or is it the terminal point, where he's okay with one per borough?I think that question goes to how we interpret these actions. Are they a kind of red carpet for a farther-reaching democratic socialist reconfiguration? Or something you're just sprinkling in? Some people fear that it's the prelude to a far greater push. The way they're doing childcare is in that kind of phased, gradual way—by this year we're going to hit this amount of two-year-olds, then eventually we're going to cover down to six-week-old children, etc. So are we fine with the grocery stores because of their limited nature? If they were a prelude to a greater push, would people worry about them a little more?Johnson: Well, I'm sure there are some people out there who have that view, that Mamdani is doing this and we're going to build on it, it's going to be more and more of this kind of thing until we finally reach utopia. But reality has a way of smacking you in the face. The grocery stores are not going to be very successful, and therefore you won't get many more of them. The childcare is nice right now as a pilot for just 2,000 kids, but it's also very expensive even for just 2,000 kids—the price tag is well over a billion dollars. Somebody's going to have to pay for that, and it's not going to be the city. The city absolutely does not have that money. So it has to be the state.Belvedere: Can I tell you what he said? You evaluate it—you and Tibita. What do you think about this promise? He said: if you make less than a million dollars, you don't have to worry about any further taxes. And if the tax burden doesn't increase on people making fewer than a million dollars per year, that's something that many New Yorkers will find palatable.Johnson: Well, but it's also nonsense. Like—reality will slap you upside the head. This is the thing that Democrats have been doing that pisses me off, frankly. Mamdani says it's up to a million dollars. Cory Booker is trying to introduce some bill in Congress: if you make less than $120,000, you shouldn't have to pay income taxes. Everybody's saying no tax on tips, no tax on pet products, no tax on Social Security, no tax for the elderly, no tax on property. Everybody wants to be the anti-tax party, and say only millionaires and billionaires should ever have to pay a tax of any kind.Look, I'm not on the far left, but if you want to have a welfare state, if that's a thing you desire out of your government, the middle class has to pay taxes. There is no way to make the math work, that you can just tax billionaires exclusively and have this rich, lush, Scandinavian-style social democracy. It does not work. Reality will kick you in the face. You're going to eventually have to break your promises or deal with the reality that you can't deliver. Some of this stuff is fantasy land, and that's where it ultimately will come down.Kaneene: Yeah, I mean—that's the main bulwark against any expectation or fear of him really bringing on real European-style socialism, is that he's not willing to tax the middle class. And that's the real reason we don't have to expect—or worry, to put it neutrally—that we'll have any such program in the United States, because a middle-class tax increase is just politically untenable.“This is what happens when you win an election and you're a young, popular guy and you have a very good social media team—you get to set the terms of the debate. You get to set the framing through which you are viewed. And that's how things operate in the early days. But in the long run, it's hard to hide from the results. Whether you want to or not, four years from now—three and a half, I guess—he's going to be running for reelection. People are going to be asking: ‘Did my rent actually go down? Did groceries get less expensive? Is the city well run?'” — Jeremiah JohnsonBut to go back to the idea of the childcare pilot—actually, if you look at it, already the numbers of new seats are behind the ramp-up he had said he was going to do. And if you look at the budget, he's not budgeting for more money for pre-K seats. There's no more money. He's not increased the money coming from the state. And other examples—like the city FHEPS, which are basically housing vouchers—during the campaign he said he would support a lawsuit to increase housing vouchers, a classic demand subsidy which, as we know, is not good for increasing housing supply or lowering prices. But he came into office and now he's not going to increase housing subsidies. Again, the reality presented itself and he's made a choice. There are things he has to continue with as pilot programs, as ideological statements, that he's not going to bust the budget for or increase taxes on the middle class for. He's at least being advised correctly that even on taxing the wealthy, there's a maximum point of revenue—there's a point beyond which if you increase the marginal tax rate, you actually bring in less money. Taxing the rich has an actual objective limit, which he has to take into account because he cannot run a budget deficit at the city level.Belvedere: I want to ask about his relationship with Trump, but in the form of a thought experiment, to put the point provocatively.Imagine we're all sitting around 30 years from now talking about this era in politics, and we're talking to people who didn't live through it, telling them about the world-historical awfulness of Trump, and threat that he was—the would-be authoritarian who did more than any other president in our annals to degrade our institutions and veer us off a liberal democratic path, even in a fascist direction. Biden famously said “semi-fascist,” some people have moved beyond that [and have dropped the qualifier]. This is the kind of figure we're talking about. The man who defied federal judges to deport hundreds of people to foreign gulags. And they're now flipping through images and footage from this era and they see Mamdani in photos with Trump. They see and hear him in interviews, maybe downplaying his awfulness. He's had a recent interview where he said he has a “productive relationship” with Trump. Trump threatened to deport Mamdani—a U.S. citizen. What do you think about his stance toward Trump? Is there any worry there? Is it refreshing that he's able to just work with him despite his awfulness? I have some issues with the way he's approached the Trump relationship. What do you guys think?Johnson: Yeah—again, this is something I've said several times here, but the purpose of popularity is that it lets you kind of stab your own team in the back, at least a little bit. If a moderate Democrat went down to the White House and shook hands with Donald Trump and took a smiling picture with him and said, “I have a productive relationship with him and we're going to work together on important things,” the left would howl in outrage about how this is an unbelievable betrayal, that this person is a Republican in disguise enabling fascism, and so on. If Mamdani does it—he's popular. He's their guy. He's so charismatic and popular among his base that they're like, “oh cool, it's a strategic play, he's doing this for us.” It lets you get away with things that you otherwise couldn't get away with. From the perspective that Mamdani's got a strategic streak to him, it makes sense that he would rather the president not be persecuting the city, and so he's going to try to make that happen.Kaneene: I'm a consequentialist. He went to the White House with a goal of getting funding for the Sunnyside Yards project. He thought making that a Daily News cover would be a means to that end. He was correct. He went down there, took a picture, came back. During this time he was asked if he still thinks Trump is a fascist. He said yes. Trump has since lashed out at him on social media saying he's terrible. I don't think that privately he's saying nice things to Trump, or that Trump has any illusion that Mamdani likes him. I think Trump is actually impressed with Mamdani and kind of respects what he did—something that Trump could never do, which is get elected mayor of New York City, winning over the kind of elite Manhattan class that never liked Trump. He realizes Mamdani has a very powerful political base that he has to reckon with.So I don't have any issue with what he's done with Trump. He's constantly opining on issues—whether it's the Iran war or tariffs—on which he disagrees with Trump, doing so eloquently and powerfully on social media.Belvedere: Take the Iran war, for example. He told a story in an interview of a woman who was being harassed because she maybe looked Iranian or Middle Eastern, and it's a powerful story about how the war is creating divisions at home. He told it through a vivid narrative. You hear it and you start to gravitate toward his side because he's telling something that matters to human beings. He's a really capable politician. I'll give him that, and I want to see how he continues to navigate what is an extremely thorny proposition, but I'm a little worried. He's been able to keep ICE off New York City streets based on whatever overtures he's made to Trump—that is a real gain, for sure. He's essentially told Trump, “You can be the FDR to my LaGuardia.” He's casting Trump as someone who is actually going to make a positive contribution to New York. It's just too glowing, for me, about a guy who's undoing a lot of what we think of as important in America.In the most prominent interviews he's given [recently], he's backed off from that strong language about Trump. That's something to think about moving forward, how he handles that relationship. I would like a little more moral clarity from him when it comes to Trump, [even given that he has to have a working relationship with him].Kaneene: I think there is moral clarity. I don't think there's been any moral compromise. I think that he can say, “Trump, I want you to pay for this housing development in Queens,” and morally there's been no compromise at all. I think that in a time where we have …Belvedere: … He was asked directly, “Is Trump trustworthy?” And he said, “I'm going to keep talking to him.” To me, it's like—are we at a point where we can't say he's not been trustworthy? He absolutely has not been trustworthy. Declining to say he's untrustworthy … it's just a small warning to me that he's not willing to interact with Trump in the way Trump deserves.Kaneene: Yeah, but—it might be the case that he feels he can trust what Trump says to him in a personal meeting. That might genuinely be true. And he still says Trump is a fascist. He still speaks out against a lot of his policies. I don't think there's been any moral compromise. I think he's like a moral beacon in a time where we don't really have any kind of moral leadership in the executive branch in Washington.Johnson: It's just, what are you trying to accomplish? Is anyone's life better off because he called Trump a fat pig who deserves to die? What are we talking about here? It would be one thing if he was being like, “Well, Trump is going to help us fund this housing project, so we're going to help him with ICE in the city.” But he's not doing that. He's just being less than maximally mean.Belvedere: We're almost out of time, so let's get from you guys your broadest possible assessment of his mayorship so far. A hundred days in, a little more than that now, what do we think? What's your assessment?Johnson: Given what I expected out of him, seven out of ten so far.Belvedere: Tibita?Kaneene: I'd give him a B so far. A big reason—we'll see what happens with the city budget and with the rent freeze. Those are, I think, the two things for the first year. He has a chance to move to a B-minus/C-plus or up to a B-plus in the next 60 days based on those two things.Belvedere: What would it look like for him to crush the next part of the year, from your perspective?Kaneene: On the budget, on the merits, I think the city council is correct. If he came around to that, that would be a big deal. If he followed through on proposing substantive property tax reform—which I think he will do eventually—but if he did that, that would be a big deal.Johnson: That's the white whale of New York politics, actually reforming our property tax system.Kaneene: In particular, if he got rid of the tax disadvantage for multifamily homes, I think that part is doable. That would be a big deal.Johnson: If you're outside New York City, you should just know our property tax system is a mess. We have high property taxes, but beyond the fact that they're high—maybe that's fair, New York does a lot of things—the system itself is just a confusing maze. The valuations are all over the place. There's just weird stuff all over the place with our property tax system. Every mayor would love to regularize it, normalize it. And there's enough special exceptions that it's really hard to do without people getting furiously angry who benefit from the special exceptions. So if he could get that done—holy crap, yeah.Kaneene: Yeah. Speaking of pissing off some supporters—I think he has the political capital to piss off some homeowners in order to reduce the costs for apartment dwellers. I think he can do that, especially if he's seen as someone who is freezing the rent and doing the grocery stores and what have you.Belvedere: Jeremiah, one last question for you. You're a culture watcher. You spot trends and memes and people's reactions to politics. What do you think it is about Mamdani—and some of the others in his cohort—that they seem to do really well with younger people? What can liberal politicians learn from this cohort? They have vastly different characteristics—Bernie Sanders is an old white dude, Mamdani is very different—and yet they have the same kind of buzz and ability on that front. What can liberal politicians do better to match that?Johnson: Yeah, I mean, some of this is messaging strategy. Mamdani comes from a family in the arts. His mom is a professional filmmaker. His videos are very well produced. He understands clipping culture—what really matters is not the event itself, it's the 20-second clip that comes out of it that will get played a million times on social media. Part of it is just the messaging strategy itself.But I also think—look at what Mamdani doesn't do. He doesn't dress weird, he doesn't try to do memes. His accounts never post memes. He's never dressing in funny outfits. He's not cursing. He's well-dressed and presentable and optimistic and he talks like he wants to change things. I think there's an impulse among middle-aged, moderate liberals sometimes to be like, “To chase the kids, we've got to do the memes. Someone get me a 20-year-old who knows memes for my internet account.” And it's just very cringe-worthy. It's terrible. What people respond to is when you believe what you're saying.Belvedere: That wraps up our time together today. Thank you guys for joining me. I'm Berny, senior editor at The UnPopulist. Tibita is the political director of the New York City chapter of the Center for New Liberalism. And Jeremiah Johnson is co-founder of the Center for New Liberalism, and his newsletter is excellent. Thanks for joining. See you next time.Thanks for reading The UnPopulist! Subscribe to support our project.© The UnPopulist, 2026Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and X.We welcome your reactions and replies. Please adhere to our comments policy. Get full access to The UnPopulist at www.theunpopulist.net/subscribe

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Our guest this episode is Steve Apter talking about Fire event response, FLS, risk mitigation, a life in public service, working on mega projects and much more.If you enjoy this episode, share it with friends and give us a review, it helps more than you know.In this episode, we discuss:Red Sea GlobalChallenging building design assumptionsRole of the fire fighting serviceThe Grenfell tragedyAnd much more…….More on SteveSteve on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-apter-qfsm-msc-hfinstr-46576038/AESG: https://aesg.com/BioSteve Apter QFSM, MSc, HFInSTR is an internationally recognized emergency management leader and keynote speaker with over 31 years of service in UK Fire and Rescue Services. He served as Chief Fire Officer of the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service and Deputy Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, where he led counter-terrorism response capabilities and advised UK government ministers during some of the UK's most consequential incidents including the Grenfell Tower fire. Steve was awarded the Queen's Fire Service Medal (QFSM) in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours for exemplary leadership.Since retiring from operational service in 2021, Steve has served as strategic advisor to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's national resilience framework and as Director of Response for the Red Sea Global Fire and Rescue Service. Steve currently a Fire Operations Consultant with AESG and a Senior Associate at the UK Resilience Academy.#edificecomplexpodcast #bluerithm #BPV #ProjectManagement #podcast #CxM #Cx #RICS #PMI #PMP #smartbuildings #ESG #training #systems #resiliance #builtenvironment #LEED #netzero #MEP #ASHRAE #CIBSE #buildingservices #BECx #facades #BPVGlobal #bluerithm #environment #LEED #netzero #MEP #ASHRAE #CIBSE #sustainability #AESG #grenfell #FLS

New York City Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) ensures New Yorkers have quality homes by maintaining building and resident safety, preserving affordable housing, and engaging New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength. On this episode of “Prep Talk,” we are joined by HPD's Deputy Commissioner of Enforcement and Neighborhood Services AnnMarie Santiago and Associate Commissioner for Emergency Operations and Enhanced Enforcement Grace DeFina to discuss how housing and public safety intersect during an emergency response. They also discuss the importance of earning New Yorkers' trust and offer advice to anyone seeking to become a civil servant.

Stephen Grootes talks to Charles de Wet, Tax Executive at ENSafrica about the appointment of Dr Ngobani Johnstone Makhubu as the new SARS Commissioner, set to take over from Edward Kieswetter on 1 May 2026. The leadership change comes at a critical time for the revenue service, following a period of improved collections, stronger compliance and institutional rebuilding under Kieswetter. Makhubu’s elevation from Deputy Commissioner signals continuity in strategy, particularly around modernisation and taxpayer engagement, while also raising questions about how SARS will sustain momentum, deepen compliance and navigate evolving fiscal pressures in the years ahead. In other interviews, Renai Moothilal, CEO of the National Association of Automotive Component and Allied Manufacturers (NAACAM) talks about Chery’s decision to invest in local manufacturing with the recommissioning of its Rosslyn plant, marking a shift from importer to producer in South Africa. The move is seen as a strong vote of confidence in the country’s automotive sector, particularly given Chery’s rapid rise as a top-ten player with significant sales volumes and an expanding dealer network. The investment is expected to boost local production capacity, deepen the supplier ecosystem and support job creation. The Money Show is a podcast hosted by well-known journalist and radio presenter, Stephen Grootes. He explores the latest economic trends, business developments, investment opportunities, and personal finance strategies. Each episode features engaging conversations with top newsmakers, industry experts, financial advisors, entrepreneurs, and politicians, offering you thought-provoking insights to navigate the ever-changing financial landscape. Thank you for listening to a podcast from The Money Show Listen live Primedia+ weekdays from 18:00 to 20:00 (SA Time) to The Money Show with Stephen Grootes broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show, go to https://buff.ly/7QpH0jY or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/PlhvUVe Subscribe to The Money Show Daily Newsletter and the Weekly Business Wrap here https://buff.ly/v5mfetc The Money Show is brought to you by Absa Follow us on social media 702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702 CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/Radio702 CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stephen Grootes talks to Charles de Wet, Tax Executive at ENSafrica about the appointment of Dr Ngobani Johnstone Makhubu as the new SARS Commissioner, set to take over from Edward Kieswetter on 1 May 2026. The leadership change comes at a critical time for the revenue service, following a period of improved collections, stronger compliance and institutional rebuilding under Kieswetter. Makhubu’s elevation from Deputy Commissioner signals continuity in strategy, particularly around modernisation and taxpayer engagement, while also raising questions about how SARS will sustain momentum, deepen compliance and navigate evolving fiscal pressures in the years ahead. The Money Show is a podcast hosted by well-known journalist and radio presenter, Stephen Grootes. He explores the latest economic trends, business developments, investment opportunities, and personal finance strategies. Each episode features engaging conversations with top newsmakers, industry experts, financial advisors, entrepreneurs, and politicians, offering you thought-provoking insights to navigate the ever-changing financial landscape.    Thank you for listening to a podcast from The Money Show Listen live Primedia+ weekdays from 18:00 and 20:00 (SA Time) to The Money Show with Stephen Grootes broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show, go to https://buff.ly/7QpH0jY or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/PlhvUVe Subscribe to The Money Show Daily Newsletter and the Weekly Business Wrap here https://buff.ly/v5mfetc The Money Show is brought to you by Absa     Follow us on social media   702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702   CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/Radio702 CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AJ Crabill explains that school boards should represent community values and set student outcome goals—not micromanage operations. Effective boards match words with actions by consistently monitoring learning data, while most fail by getting distracted from their core mission: ensuring children actually learn.AJ Crabill serves as National Director of Governance at Council of the Great City Schools. He recently served as the Conservator at DeSoto (TX) ISD, as Deputy Commissioner at the Texas Education Agency, and as board chair of Kansas City (MO) Public Schools. The 3rd edition of his bestselling book, "Great On Their Behalf: Why School Boards Fail, How Yours Can Become Effective” was released last month.Links:YouTube: Bing VideosWebsite: Airick Journey Crabill | AJ Crabill | aj-crabill.com This podcast sponsored by:The Bell Ringer, a weekly newsletter providing news, tools, and resources on the science of learning, written by education reporter Holly Korbey. Subscribe here. Murmuration Author Services by Mark Combes. Looking to write your first book? Murmuration Author Services is your friend and coach for this journey. Learn more here. 

What does bravery mean in leadership? And are there secrets to being brave, even when you don't feel like it is possible? Ruby Riethmuller is the founder and CEO of Womn-Kind, a youth-led mental health platform. She launched the platform in 2020, after struggling with anxiety as a teenager and coming to terms with her own identity as LGBTQ in a small country town. She’s also a regional health advocate and Deputy Commissioner at the NSW mental health commission. In this episode, she talks with FW Founder Helen McCabe about Gen Z work habits, imposter syndrome and how she makes the conscious effort to be brave, each and every day. Plus, this season Helen McCabe is answering YOUR leadership questions. Wait to the end of the episode to hear her take on 1-1 meetings. If you have any leadership dilemmas, conundrums and pet peeves for Helen, send them her way by emailing hello@futurewomen.com. Join the movement to fast-track your professional development. Become an FW member today. Keep up with @futurewomen on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Threads See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

KPMG Australia Partner Hayley Lock and Director Andy Larmour speak to Deputy Commissioner, Payday Super Program, Emma Rosenzweig from the Australian Taxation Office about what Payday Super will mean in practice from 1 July 2026, covering payment timing, qualifying earnings, contractor obligations, reporting under Single Touch Payroll, cash‑flow impacts and the ATO's compliance approach for employers preparing for the largest change to superannuation in a generation.   For regular updates, please subscribe to KPMG Tax Now. 

Part 1 - Neville James is joined by Ashley Bouzianis, Director of Marketing & Development at the St. Croix Animal Welfare Center as they discuss upcoming events included a free spay/neuter clinic in mid-March, the annual Fur Ball gala, and the launch of Mutiny's Coconut Retriever vodka. Guests RoseAnne Farrington, Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Tourism, and Jo-Ann Berry-Edney, Special Assistant to the Governor, join Neville James on Analyze This.

Welcome to Health-e Law, Sheppard's podcast exploring the fascinating health tech topics and trends of the day. In this episode, partner and host Michael Orlando welcomes Adam Herbst, a partner in Sheppard's Healthcare industry team, to explore key insights from the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference and discuss both the pitfalls and opportunities the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA) presents for the healthcare sector.   What we discuss in this episode: What does the increased use of technology in healthcare mean for the aging population? What key considerations should healthcare leaders keep in mind as they adapt to OBBBA when caring for aging populations? Practical challenges providers will encounter as they seek to deploy technology solutions to address additional OBBBA restrictions. How might OBBBA change the way health systems negotiate partnerships or structure payer contracts? What are some positive outcomes that could arise with these changes? Which anticipated changes in healthcare delivery excite you most about the future of health equity?   About Adam Herbst Adam Herbst is a nationally regarded authority at the intersection of healthcare law, policy and delivery, with nearly three decades of experience spanning government, health systems, nonprofits and the private sector. He advises on the full range of corporate and transactional healthcare matters including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and financings involving hospitals, long-term care facilities, managed care organizations and private equity funds. He is also widely recognized for his mastery of Medicaid law, financing and policy. His Medicaid work includes 1115 waivers, state-directed payments, managed care contracting, HCBS waiver design, PACE program expansion and long-term care reimbursement across multiple states. Adam regularly structures governance arrangements, negotiates complex management and administrative services agreements and guides providers and investors through multi-state regulatory approvals and compliance regimes. Clients value Adam's ability to combine inside knowledge of government with sophisticated deal experience and a genuine understanding of mission-driven care. Whether guiding a multi-state transaction, structuring a PACE or HCBS program, advising on Medicaid waivers or supporting aging and disability service organizations, he brings a holistic approach that integrates law, policy, operations and strategy, helping clients build sustainable, compliant growth models while advancing care for vulnerable populations. Before joining Sheppard, Adam served as Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health and as a special advisor to two governors, where he led major initiatives in Medicaid transformation, long-term care reform, and managed care modernization, and chaired New York's Master Plan for Aging. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he played a critical leadership role in the state's emergency response—coordinating with federal partners, standing up COVID-only nursing facilities, managing hospital surge capacity and supporting one of the largest vaccine distribution efforts in the country. His career has also included running a children's hospital, leading a major community health center and advising faith-based organizations and disability service agencies through periods of growth, transformation and financial stress.   About Michael Orlando Michael Orlando is a partner in Sheppard's San Diego (Del Mar) office. He is team leader of the firm's Technology Transactions team, a member of the Life Sciences, Healthcare and Artificial Intelligence teams, and co-leader of the firm's Digital Health & Innovation team. Michael has more than 20 years of experience advising health technology companies, insurers, healthcare systems and providers, academic medical centers and research institutions, medical device manufacturers, and pharmaceutical and wellness companies on intellectual property and business transactions in key strategic areas, including EHR systems procurement and integration, telehealth, mobile health applications, clinical decision support technologies, artificial intelligence, data use, wearable devices, remote patient monitoring, and other medical devices, research and collaborations, patent licenses, software licenses, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, revenue cycle management, and other outsourcing transactions.  Michael founded a software-as-a-service company before entering private practice and completed an in-house secondment at a publicly traded biotechnology company, an experience that informs his practical and business-focused approach to client engagements.   Thank you for listening! 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The Trump Administration's rolled out a new, inverted food pyramid that places a stronger emphasis on dairy, red meats and foods higher in fat, while whole grains are at the narrow bottom. This follows HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s mission to "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA), aimed at addressing chronic disease, childhood illnesses and ultra processed foods. The FDA is using the catch-phrase "eat real food" for the campaign they say will ultimately save families money. FOX's Jared Halpern speaks with Kyle Diamantas, the Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods and head of the agency's Human Foods Program, overseeing all FDA nutrition and food safety, who says embracing the new nutritional guidelines will save your family money, and improve your health. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump Administration's rolled out a new, inverted food pyramid that places a stronger emphasis on dairy, red meats and foods higher in fat, while whole grains are at the narrow bottom. This follows HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s mission to "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA), aimed at addressing chronic disease, childhood illnesses and ultra processed foods. The FDA is using the catch-phrase "eat real food" for the campaign they say will ultimately save families money. FOX's Jared Halpern speaks with Kyle Diamantas, the Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods and head of the agency's Human Foods Program, overseeing all FDA nutrition and food safety, who says embracing the new nutritional guidelines will save your family money, and improve your health. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump Administration's rolled out a new, inverted food pyramid that places a stronger emphasis on dairy, red meats and foods higher in fat, while whole grains are at the narrow bottom. This follows HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s mission to "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA), aimed at addressing chronic disease, childhood illnesses and ultra processed foods. The FDA is using the catch-phrase "eat real food" for the campaign they say will ultimately save families money. FOX's Jared Halpern speaks with Kyle Diamantas, the Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods and head of the agency's Human Foods Program, overseeing all FDA nutrition and food safety, who says embracing the new nutritional guidelines will save your family money, and improve your health. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Federal fisheries regulators approved some limits on Western Alaska chum bycatch in the Bering Sea last week. The highly debated – and long awaited – decision aims to protect declining salmon stocks, a crucial food resource for Alaska tribes. The Alaska Desk’s Alena Naiden from our flagship station KNBA has this story. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to set a Western Alaska chum bycatch limit in the Bering Sea pollock fishery. The council said the move will balance protections for Western Alaska salmon returns, while also allowing pollock fisheries to continue their harvest. Council member Nicole Kimball voted for the motion. She says it addresses those needs and reflects best available Western and Indigenous science. “I think it’s going to change behavior. I think it’s going to reduce Western Alaska chum bycatch … I’m sure, as per usual, nobody is very happy, but all of the discussions have really helped … inform the outcome.” The trawl fishery in the Bering Sea near the Aleutian Islands is focused on pollock, but boats also scoop up other types of fish. That includes chum salmon, some of which migrates to Western and Interior Alaska rivers and is a crucial subsistence resource there. But chum runs have been declining, leading to repeated fishing closures in some communities. Alaska Native Council member John Moller, originally from Unalaska, is a commercial fisherman. He says he is fortunate to put fish up each year and feels for those who cannot. “I know how important that is to me, how important that is to my family, and passing that on to my children – I get that. And my heart is ripped out, speaking with all of you that are living on the rivers right now that don’t have that same ability that I have living in Southeast.” The council voted to support a motion that sets a limit to Western Alaska chum bycatch. Exceeding that limit would trigger a partial closure. Rachel Baker is the Deputy Commissioner at Alaska Department of Fish and Game. She presented the motion. Several members who voted against the motion said it is not likely to provide a meaningful improvement for salmon returns, but Baker argued. “We’re at this table used to thinking about large volumes of fish, in tons … we heard in testimony that four fish were able to provide the needs for a potlatch.” The plan goes to the National Marine Fisheries Service next before it can be implemented. (Courtesy AMC) This weekend saw the recent premiere of Season 4 of AMC's award-winning detective drama, “Dark Winds” which takes place in 1970s Navajo Country. As Brian Bull reports, tension and resentment threaten the romantic relationship between two main characters. After Bernadette Manuelito quits the U.S. Border Patrol and returns to the Navajo Tribal Police Department, it looks like a carefree and intimate rekindling of her romance with fellow officer, Jim Chee. But Lt. Joe Leaphorn shares a life decision with Manuelito that will shake up the force, a secret which Chee inevitably learns. Feeling affronted and mistrusted, a schism occurs between the couple. Actors Kiowa Gordon and Jessica Matten talk about bringing this conflict to their characters. “Leaphorn's coming from a place of understanding the matriarchy system, and in order to protect this relationship dynamic, she doesn't feel like she's lying to Chee, she feels like she's actually protecting him from what he doesn't need to know.  Y'know she's dealing with a lot of the PTSD of her just killing a man in season 3, and sometimes you just don't want to tell the truth right away because you might actually spiritually just drown, because it’s too much.” “And he is dealing with his own demons that he's been pushing away but now they've come to collect. And having to deal with that and trying to maintain your professionalism when you're working with the love of your life at the same time, and so there's a lot of dynamics being played out.” (Courtesy AMC) Meanwhile, an investigation takes the pair and Leaphorn to Los Angeles. Gordon and Matten say much of the filming still happened in New Mexico, parts of which resembled L.A. more than 50 years ago. New episodes of “Dark Winds” air Sunday nights on AMC and a fifth season has already been greenlit. The premiere episode of “Dark Winds” season 4 ended with a tribute to executive producer Robert Redford, who passed away last September. (Courtesy AMC) Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Wednesday, February 18, 2026 – Native in the Spotlight: Keeya Wiki

Get your podjam tickets April 9-12 in Vegas Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Mayor Hanlon Bio I was practically raised at my family's restaurant, The Boston Garden, on 11th Avenue and Mainstreet. Here, in Hopkins, my parents instilled in me and my sisters the value of hard work; washing dishes, and waiting tables. At the same time, they taught me the importance of giving back to community through sponsoring Little League Teams or feeding the homeless at our restaurant on Thanksgiving. They taught me the value of remaining civically engaged in order to help strengthen the community you love.   I've now lived in Hopkins for 15 years and still on 11th Ave. The apple certainly didn't fall far from the tree. My wife Kathryn and I both love this city and its people. We also love raising our daughter in such a connected, caring community. I joined a group of residents in the Hopkins Coalition as a way to be civically engaged with the people of this town and work to have their issues heard and their talents activated.   I want to see Hopkins continue to grow strong financially and demonstrate true small-town leadership. As Mayor of Hopkins and the Deputy Commissioner at the City of Minneapolis, I bring to the table 15 years of deep community engagement in our state's most diverse communities while leading teams that deliver nationally recognized programs. I bring solutions that are win-wins for communities, businesses and individuals and have the experience as Mayor to ensure that our City stays vibrant, balanced and strong.   I firmly believe we can continue to increase the growth and impact of this community while improving affordability, economic opportunity, and maintaining our path to becoming a national leader in climate change while still retaining our small town charm. And this past year has shown that together, we are capable of just that. Your City. Your Voice. On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete   Listen rate and review on Apple Podcasts Listen rate and review on Spotify Pete On Instagram Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on Twitter Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page  

In our latest episode, David Shanks, Deputy Commissioner of Enterprise and Integrated Integrity Services at Inland Revenue New Zealand, explores how governments can strike the right balance between embracing technological innovation and managing risk. Drawing on personal experience across regulation, digital policy and emerging technology, he reflects on the opportunities AI presents — and the very real harms that can arise when innovation outpaces oversight. Through compelling real-world stories, David argues that opting out of technological change isn't realistic. Instead, public sector leaders must learn to move forward deliberately, paying close attention to early warning signs, lived experience and unintended consequences. The episode offers a thoughtful, grounded perspective on responsible innovation in an age of rapid digital change. David Shanks, Deputy Commissioner, Enterprise and Integrity Services, Inland Revenue NZ For more great insights head to www.PublicSectorNetwork.co  

Send us a textBrian Fechter was the Deputy Commissioner for the Department of Revenue for the state of Alaska from 2021-2023. Brian grew up in Pennsylvania and moved to Alaska in 2012. He worked various financial positions in the state government before becoming Deputy Commissioner of Revenue. In 2023 he became the budget advisor for then Washington Governor Jay Inslee. Last year he moved to Idaho where he currently serves as the executive director for budget and financial planning for the College of Western Idaho. Much of today's conversation revolves around Brian's recent article published in the Alaska Landmine entitled, "The Alaska Legislature could learn a lot from Washington and Idaho."

In this episode of The Produce Moms Podcast, host Lori Taylor welcomes Kyle Diamantas, J.D., Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods at the Food and Drug Administration, for an in-depth conversation on food safety, regulatory leadership, and the future of the U.S. food system.

Send us a textToday, we're diving into highlights of the annual Media Symposium hosted by the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education, held on January 9, 2026. One of the standout sessions was a dynamic panel focused on early learning, featuring Dr. Bentley Ponder, Deputy Commissioner for Quality Innovations and Partnerships, Kristen Bernhard with Primrose Schools, Shawnell Johnson with Promise All Atlanta Children Thrive, and Ellyn Cochran from Quality Care for Children.Support the show

Send us a textOn Monday, January 12, 2026, the Georgia General Assembly continues its 158th session…which began with the 2025 General Assembly in the traditional two-year cycle. It gets pretty busy around the Gold Dome and even here next door at the Twin Towers. From budget battles and education reform to healthcare, transportation, and election law changes, there is a lot going on. Joining us today to preview the session is Polly McKinney, Advocacy Director for Voices for Georgia's Children and a partner at Lexicon Strategies; Liz Young is Director of Government Relations and Special Projects here at DECAL, Rian Ringsrud is our Deputy Commissioner for Finance and Administration, and our special guest Greg Bluestein is Chief Political Reporter with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. We will also hear from State Rep Rick Townsend who joined us in Brunswick for a recent podcast on our Chop, Look, Listen campaign and took a moment to do a little legislative prognosticating.  Support the show

A number of steps have been taken in Sullivan County to help those dealing with Substance Use.  Dawn Ciorciari, General Manager of Bold Gold Media NY Region, on behalf of Catskills News, sits down for a conversation about access to care and prevention related to substance use, with John Liddle, Commissioner of Health and Human Services, and Commissioner of Social Services, along with Melissa Stickle, Deputy Commissioner for the Department of Health and Human Services.  For more information on this topic, visit unitedsullivan.org.

4pm: Video Guest – Bill Glahn – Policy Fellow with Center of the American Experiment // Bill Glahn has been investigating fraud in Minnesota since January of 2022 // Prior to joining the Center, he served as a Research Consultant for the Minnesota House of Representatives, supporting energy, economic development, housing, and budget committees. He served as a Deputy Commissioner of Commerce in Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s administration. // Jamal Osman, Omar Fateh on video bragging about their help for Feeding Our Future // John is cleared for face-lift surgery // CEO gifts employees $240 million in surprise bonuses after selling company

6pm: Video Guest – Bill Glahn – Policy Fellow with Center of the American Experiment // Bill Glahn has been investigating fraud in Minnesota since January of 2022 // Prior to joining the Center, he served as a Research Consultant for the Minnesota House of Representatives, supporting energy, economic development, housing, and budget committees. He served as a Deputy Commissioner of Commerce in Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s administration. // Jamal Osman, Omar Fateh on video bragging about their help for Feeding Our Future // John is cleared for face-lift surgery // CEO gifts employees $240 million in surprise bonuses after selling company

Frank Yiannas, M.P.H. is a renowned food safety leader and executive, food system futurist, author, professor, past president of the International Association of Food Protection (IAFP), and advocate for consumers. Most recently, he served under two different administrations as the Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a position he held from 2018–2023, after spending 30 years in leadership roles with Walmart and the Walt Disney Company. After retiring from FDA, Mr. Yiannas founded Smarter FY Solutions to help organizations address critical food safety and supply chain challenges. He also advises several well-known companies, offering consultancy services to modernize compliance strategies and ensure that clients meet regulatory requirements and industry standards. Throughout his career, Mr. Yiannas has been recognized for his role in strengthening food safety standards in new and innovative ways, as well as building effective food safety management systems based on modern, science-based, and tech-enabled prevention principles. Drew McDonald is the Senior Vice President of Quality and Food Safety at Taylor Fresh Foods in Salinas, California, where he oversees the quality and food safety programs across the foodservice, retail, and deli operations under both FDA and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) jurisdictions. Mr. McDonald works with an impressive team developing and managing appropriate and practical quality and food safety programs for fresh food and produce products. He has more than 30 years of experience in fresh produce and fresh foods. Over the course of his career, Mr. McDonald has worked with growers and processors of fresh food and produce items across the globe. He currently serves on numerous food safety-related technical committees and has participated in the authorship of many produce safety articles and guidelines. He serves on the Food Safety Summit Educational Advisory Board and is a former chair of the Center for Produce Food Safety's Technical Committee and United Fresh's Technical Council. Mr. McDonald received his education from Lawrence University in Wisconsin. John Besser, Ph.D. worked for ten years as Deputy Chief of the Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he was involved in national and global programs to detect, characterize, and track gastrointestinal diseases. Prior to CDC, Dr. Besser led the infectious disease laboratory at the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) for 19 years and served as a clinical microbiologist at the University of Minnesota Hospital for five years. He currently works as an independent contractor and consultant. Dr. Besser is the author or co-author of more than 70 publications. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degree from the University of Minnesota. Craig Hedberg, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota and Co-Director of the Minnesota Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence. He promotes public health surveillance as a prerequisite for effective food control, and his work focuses on improving methods for collaboration among public health and regulatory agencies, academic researchers, and industry to improve foodborne illness surveillance and outbreak investigations. With a background in public health practice, Dr. Hedberg also focuses on public health workforce development and works with state, local, and tribal public health partners to build capacity for preparedness and emergency response. He is a member of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, the Minnesota Environmental Health Association, and IAFP. Dr. Hedberg holds a Ph.D. in Epidemiology and an M.S. degree in Environmental Health, both from the University of Minnesota. In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with Mr. Yiannas, Mr. McDonald, Dr. Besser, and Dr. Hedberg [6:43] about: The increasing rate of food recalls issued by federal regulatory agencies, and what that might imply about the current systems for outbreak investigation and disease surveillance How federal and state public health agencies conduct foodborne illness outbreak investigations and the current success rates of these investigations Elements of the foodborne illness outbreak investigation process that are working well Potential areas for improvement for foodborne illness outbreak investigations and the metrics for "success" An idea for a National Foodborne Outbreak Investigation Board, similar to the model used for airlines with the National Transportation Safety Board, and how such a system might help improve food safety in the U.S. Sponsored by: Michigan State University Online Food Safety Program We Want to Hear from You! Please send us your questions and suggestions to podcast@food-safety.com

12/19/25: While Joel Heitkamp is out, Minnesota State Senator Rob Kupec takes his place as the host of "News and Views." Rob is joined by Evan Roe, the Deputy Commissioner at the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), to talk about paid family medical leave that'll start up in Minnesota in January 2026. You can learn more on their website at https://pl.mn.gov/. (Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the final episode of our all-NYC series, we take the train uptown to the Children's Museum of Manhattan, where a group of incarcerated dads from Rikers Island are playing games, eating lunch, and doing arts and crafts with their kids. This is the sixth episode of “The Loop,” Ear Hustle's six-part series about kids in New York City who are caught up, one way or another, in the criminal justice system. Ear Hustle would like to thank Leslie Bushara, Chief Program Officer; and Dava Schub, Chief Executive Officer and Museum Director at the Children's Museum of Manhattan; as well as the following people at New York State Department of Corrections: Patrick Gallahue, Deputy Commissioner of Public Information; Annais Morales, Press Secretary; Latima Johnson, Press Officer; Anne Penson, Executive Director of Reintegration Services; Douglas Shore, Director of Reintegration Services; Jessica Medard, Executive Director of Facility Programs (RNDC); and Betty Melecio, Executive Director of Facility Programs (OBCC). As always, thanks to Warden Andes and Lt. Berry at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center; Acting Warden Parker, Associate Warden Lewis, and Lt. Newborg at the California Institution for Women; and Warden De La Cruz and Lt. Williams at the Central California Women's Facility for their support of our work.Support our team and get even more Ear Hustle by subscribing to Ear Hustle Plus today. Sign up at earhustlesq.com/plus or directly in Apple Podcasts. Ear Hustle is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

What if leadership growth starts with confronting the story you've been carrying your entire life?This week on Mission CTRL, Ramon sits down with Shirley Skyers-Thomas — attorney, Deputy Commissioner of the State of Connecticut, executive coach, and author of UnLEARNEDed: Honor Your Story, Release Restraints, and Embrace Your Power. Raised in Bridgeport by Jamaican parents and shaped by faith, family, and service, Shirley shares how her journey - from pastor's kid to government employee - informs the way she leads and advocates today.In this conversation, Shirley breaks down why personal development and leadership development can't be separated, especially for small and micro-business owners who often lack access to formal training. She challenges leaders to recognize their own narratives, unpack limiting beliefs formed early in life, and understand how those stories quietly show up in delegation, trust, and team dynamics.She also opens up about writing UnLEARNEDed during the pandemic - a deeply vulnerable process sparked by turning 40 and realizing that professional success had become a façade. The book, and her work today, invite leaders to interrupt old thought patterns, embrace continuous growth, and lead with authenticity.Whether you're a founder, executive, or leader navigating change, this episode is a powerful reminder that honoring your story is the first step toward sustainable leadership and lasting impact.

From all the team who work on William & Lonsdale - Lives in the Law, and everyone at Greens List, we would like to wish you a happy and safe festive season. We'll be kicking off 2026 with more exceptional guests, including former Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Police and professional musician, Ross Gunther, migration lawyer Traci Chen, who has over 250 thousand TikTok followers and used the platform to extraordinary effect to connect with her current and potential clients and The Hon. Lex Lasry, well known for his work as a criminal barrister and Supreme Court Justice.But for now, have a wonderful break, and we look forward to bringing you more great conversations in the new year.

On this episode of the Finest Unfiltered John, Eric and Marlon discuss the continued blatant Tammany hall style corruption coming out of NYC and discuss the retirement announcement of Deputy Mayor of Public Safety Kaz Daughtry. We ask is he is a Deputy Mayor, is he a Deputy Commissioner or is he a detective? Is he a Uniformed Member of the service or is a Civilian member. ️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5689366474915840 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Send us a textToday a special episode of DECAL Download coming to you from Brunswick, Georgia…the site of a recent media event announcing the launch of Chop, Look & Listen, our new statewide campaign to prevent children from choking during meal times at child care, at home, or anywhere. Joining us today to talk about Chop, Look and Listen is State Rep Dr. Rick Townsend who represents this area in the Georgia General Assembly and Pam Stevens, Deputy Commissioner for Child Care Services.  Support the show

Intelligence experts discuss the new frontiers of intelligence gathering, examining how emerging technologies are transforming espionage and reshaping the future of U.S. national security.   Background Reading: This article outlines how growing politicization within the intelligence community threatens the integrity of intelligence assessments and endangers U.S. national security.   Host: Barton Gellman, Senior Advisor to the President, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU Law School   Guests: Robert Cardillo, Former Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency   Anthony Vinci, Author, The Fourth Intelligence Revolution: The Future of Espionage and the Battle to Save America; Former Chief Technology Officer, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency   Rebecca U. Weiner, Deputy Commissioner, Intelligence and Counterterrorism, New York City Police Department; CFR Member   Want more comprehensive analysis of global news and events straight to your inbox? Subscribe to CFR's Daily News Brief newsletter.   To keep tabs on all CFR events, visit cfr.org/event. To watch this event, please visit our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu62quTXCF0   

It is a momentous occasion when Judson wears an entirely black outfit. Brian takes his family to the fantastic new revival of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee off-Broadway, where his daughter joins the cast for the afternoon. Judson crowdsources an internship for a new friend he met by chance over ramen. The Hookup of the Week comes from a sub who finds a deeper connection with one of his regular Doms. The two are then joined by Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases before his fiery resignation this summer. Having also served as the CDC's Director of HIV Prevention, the White House's Deputy Coordinator of the National Monkeypox Response in 2022-2023, and the Deputy Commissioner of NYC's Department of Health, Dr. Daskalakis brings an incredible wealth of knowledge, experience, stories and sexy Daddy energy to the Dads and Daddies studio. Dr. Demetre speaks with Brian and Judson about his resignation from the CDC this summer and the hostile takeover of the organization by RFK Jr., being dubbed “Dr. Daddy” by legendary nightlife impresario Susanne Bartsch, his days on the front lines testing for HIV in NYC's bathhouses and sex clubs, the origin and evolution of his 14-year relationship with his husband Michael, their imminent move back to New York, the meaning behind his tattoos, the love of Madonna concerts he shares with Brian, and his intolerance of bullies instilled by his father that has made him the fighter he is today. He then joins Brian and Judson for a mini Go Ask Your Dad Extravaganza, tackling three listener-submitted questions about communicating when one tests positive for an STI, conquering a debilitating fear of HIV, and handling the discovery of an open sore during an anonymous sex encounter. Find Dr. Demetre Daskalakis on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/drdemetre and on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/drdemetre.bsky.social Email your Hookup of the Week and Go Ask Your Dad submissions to dadsanddaddies@gmail.com Dads and Daddies on the Web: https://www.dadsanddaddies.com/ Dads and Daddies on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dadsanddaddiespod Dads and Daddies on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dadsanddaddiespod Dads and Daddies on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dadsanddaddiespod.bsky.social Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Tackling The Mafia And Dangers of Informants: Retired FBI Agent Speaks. Special Episode. “This is a part of FBI work the public almost never sees,” Vinton explains. “When you're Tackling The Mafia And the Dangers of Informants, you're operating in a world where loyalty is a currency, and betrayal can cost lives or careers.” Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast social media like their Facebook , Instagram , LinkedIn , Medium and other social media platforms. In a powerful Special Episode now streaming on the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast website, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and most every major Podcast platform, retired FBI agent and author Tom Vinton offers a rare, firsthand look into the world of organized crime, dangerous informants, and the internal risks faced by federal investigators. Promoted across Facebook, Instagram, and other News outlets, the episode takes listeners deep into the heart of New York's most violent Mafia crime families, and into the shadows where informants and agents walk a thin line between justice and treachery. Inside the Mafia Wars of the 1980s The episode dives into the turbulent 1980s, a decade defined by upheaval within the Gambino Crime Family, from the Crime Boss's leadership to his shocking 1985 assassination and the meteoric rise of another Boss. Vinton recalls the era as one marked by international heroin trafficking, brutal territorial battles, and the historic Mafia Commission Trial, which took aim at the leadership of all five New York Mafia families. Tackling The Mafia And Dangers of Informants: Retired FBI Agent Speaks. Special Episode. Look for supporting articles about this and much more from Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast in platforms like Medium , Blogspot and Linkedin . “The Commission Trial was a seismic shift,” Vinton says. “For the first time, the FBI could expose how the families cooperated, organized, and profited. It changed the direction of organized crime investigations forever.” The Perils of Informants: “A Necessary Evil” Vinton's book, Sanctioned Treachery: Portrait of a Drug Informant, becomes a centerpiece of the episode. Based on his decades-long career investigating organized crime and supervising the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, the novel brings to life the dangerous dance between agents and the informants they rely on. “Informants are both indispensable and incredibly risky,” Vinton notes. “Some agents have had their careers destroyed, or even ended up in jail, because they trusted the wrong person.” Tackling The Mafia And Dangers of Informants: Retired FBI Agent Speaks. Available for free on their website and streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast platforms. The book follows fictional FBI agent Eddie Michaels and his informant Alonzo “King” Curtis, a charismatic but ruthless operator whose moral compass is as fluid as the criminal underworld he moves through. Drawing on real-life cases, Vinton reveals how informants can both solve major crimes and simultaneously jeopardize investigations, or the agents themselves. “This could have happened,” Vinton says plainly. “Some of it did.” A Career Built on Crime-Fighting and Storytelling Tom Vinton's own story is as compelling as the cases he describes. Born in New Rochelle and a graduate of Holy Cross, he served as a Marine Corps infantry officer before joining the FBI. His assignments took him ultimately to New York, where he supervised massive organized crime and drug investigations. The Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast episode is available for free on their website , Apple Podcasts , Spotify and most major podcast platforms. After retiring from the Bureau, Vinton became Deputy Commissioner of the Westchester County Police and launched a consulting business. But writing remained a passion. Tackling The Mafia And Dangers of Informants. “A professor once told me that writing would serve me no matter what career I chose,” Vinton recalls. “He was right. These stories needed to be told.” Originally published in 2005, Sanctioned Treachery was lost when the publisher went bankrupt. Now updated, re-edited, and released, it's earning renewed praise. One early review called it “a grand thriller… an exciting breath-holding adventure disguised as fiction.” How the FBI Fights Organized Crime Throughout the episode, Vinton breaks down how the FBI tackles criminal enterprises, not just individuals, using tools like: Undercover operations Court-authorized wiretaps and surveillance Asset forfeiture Informants and cooperating witnesses Inter-agency task forces RICO statutes “The goal is to dismantle the entire infrastructure of a criminal organization,” Vinton says. “Not just arrest a few people. We target the enterprise, its money, its leadership, its operations.” Tackling The Mafia And Dangers of Informants: Retired FBI Agent Speaks. Special Episode. The full podcast episode is streaming now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and across Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. A Must-Listen Episode for True Crime Fans For those interested in the FBI, Mafia history, or the high-stakes world of criminal informants, this Special Episode delivers unmatched insight. “It's a reminder,” Vinton says, “that the line between justice and danger is thinner than the public ever realizes.” Listeners can tune in on the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show website, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and most every major Podcast platform and follow updates on Facebook, Instagram, and other major News outlets. You can find the show on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, X (formerly Twitter), and LinkedIn, as well as read companion articles and updates on Medium, Blogspot, YouTube, and even IMDB. You can help contribute money to make the Gunrunner Movie . The film that Hollywood won't touch. It is about a now Retired Police Officer that was shot 6 times while investigating Gunrunning. He died 3 times during Medical treatment and was resuscitated. You can join the fight by giving a monetary “gift” to help ensure the making of his film at agunrunnerfilm.com . Background song Hurricane is used with permission from the band Dark Horse Flyer. You can contact John J. “Jay” Wiley by email at Jay@letradio.com , or learn more about him on their website . Get the latest news articles, without all the bias and spin, from the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast on Medium , which is free. “If you enjoy the show,” John Jay Wiley adds, “please share it with a friend or two, or three. And if you're able to leave an honest rating or review, it would be deeply appreciated.” The Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast is available for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and LETRadio.com, among many other platforms. Stay connected with updates and future episodes by following the show on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, their website and other Social Media Platforms. Find a wide variety of great podcasts online at The Podcast Zone Facebook Page , look for the one with the bright green logo. Be sure to check out our website . Be sure to follow us on X , Instagram , Facebook, Pinterest, Linkedin and other social media platforms for the latest episodes and news. Tackling The Mafia And Dangers of Informants: Retired FBI Agent Speaks. Special Episode. Attributions Amazon.com F.B.I. Amazon.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode of Clause 8, Deputy Commissioner for Patents Jerry Lorengo joins host Eli Mazour to share valuable, practical insights for patent professionals navigating the USPTO's new Performance Appraisal Plan (PAP).Jerry discusses what's changed in the latest update — including the revised streamlined review process, new production expectations, and updated interview time policy — and offers guidance on how examiners, applicants, and SPEs can adapt effectively.He reveals that the streamlined review will now focus only on independent claims, not dependent claims indicated as allowable, and explains how this early-stage supervisory review is designed to expedite prosecution, strengthen examination quality, and help SPEs learn from experienced primary examiners.Jerry also stresses the importance of collaboration: even with new interview limitations, examiners are encouraged to conduct interviews that help clarify issues and move applications forward.

Send us a textMeals and snacks can be dangerous. Choking accidents remain a leading cause of injury and even death among young children both in child care settings and at home.  In 2024, Georgia suffered two incidents where toddlers in child care choked while eating fruit and later died…one in Brunswick and one in Alpharetta. In response to those tragedies, DECAL has created a new campaign to equip caregivers, educators, and parents with practical tools and strategies to keep children safe.  It's called Chop, Look & Listen. Joining us to discuss the new campaign is Pam Stevens, Deputy Commissioner for Child Care Services, and Candice Gilbert, CCS Training and Communications Manager. Support the show

Dr. Novneet Sahoo, Deputy Commissioner for Public Health at the New Jersey Department of Health, discusses his state's multi-pronged strategy to improve vaccine access and address vaccine confidence in response to a national rise in pediatric flu deaths; Thaddeus Pham, Viral Hepatitis Prevention Coordinator at the Hawaii Department of Health, explains what the state has accomplished through HEP FREE 2030, Hawaii's initiative to eliminate Hepatitis B and C by the year 2030; on Wednesday, October 29th at 3:00 p.m. ET, ASTHO will host part one of a two-part webinar series on the accomplishments of various jurisdictions in their preparedness and response tactics during extreme weather events; and a new ASTHO report can help jurisdictions reduce overdose-related harms and support the communities affected by it. NJ.com: Pediatric flu deaths reach 15-year high. Get your shot now, officials urge. HEP FREE 2030: The Hawai'i Hepatitis Elimination Strategy 2020-2030 ASTHO Webinar: Weathering the Storm: The Importance of Environmental Health Preparedness and Response Part I ASTHO Report: Overdose Data to Action: Utilizing Partnerships and Flexibility to Support Policy Change

Secret filming by the BBC's Panorama programme last night revealed evidence of racism, misogyny and officers revelling in the use of force at one of London's busiest police stations. Panorama's evidence suggests that a toxic culture still exists inside the Met and that racist and misogynistic attitudes haven't been eliminated but have been driven underground. Anita Rani speaks to Matt Jukes, Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.The secrets we keep reflect the conventions, taboos and laws of the outside world, and women have traditionally had the bigger burden of secrets, often unable to reveal things that could get them or others judged, in society or by law. Anita talks to Juliet Nicolson about her new book The Book of Revelations which explores secrets through social history, her own family and many case studies she spoke to. The conservationist and primatologist Dame Jane Goodall died yesterday, aged 91. According to the Jane Goodall Institute, she died of natural causes in California where she was staying as part of a speaking tour in the US. There has been tributes from around the world. Joining me Anita to remember this ground-breaking conservationist who revolutionised the study of great apes is wildlife biologist, National Geographic Explorer and President of the Wildlife Trust, Liz Bonnin, and Jillian Miller who is the director of the Gorilla Organisation who work to save gorillas from extinction.From gowns buried underground to transforming fabrics with melted bandages, fashion has a history of exploring the aesthetics of dirt and decay. A new exhibition at the Barbican, Dirty Looks, explores 50 years of designers from Vivienne Westwood to Alexander McQueen, who used dirt and distress to make statements about luxury, beauty, class and the environment. The exhibition also looks at waste as fashion is now one of the most polluting industries in the world. Anita is joined by the exhibition's curator, Karen Van Godtsenhoven, and artist and designer, Michaela Stark, whose work challenges ideas of imperfection.Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt