Podcast appearances and mentions of morgan baskin

Late last week, the General Services Administration announced it had selected a site in Prince George's County as the new home for the FBI headquarters. This decision didn't sit well with many Virginia elected officials, who were angling to have Fairfax County be the FBI's new home. U.S. Senator Mark Warner tells us why he's calling for an investigation into the selection process. Plus, the federal government once again narrowly avoided a federal shutdown. We ask Sen. Warner what impact these constant shutdown threats are having on the commonwealth's federal workforce. A new bill introduced in the D.C. Council this week would prevent property owners with histories of housing code violations from renting to tenants. WAMU's Housing and Development reporter Morgan Baskin joins the show to break down the legislation. As thousands this week rallied on the National Mall in support of Israel, Montgomery County officials are responding to an immigrant rights organization's recent statements about the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. Montgomery County Council Vice Chair Andrew Friedson is in studio with Kojo and Tom to give his thoughts. Plus, new legislation would require public restrooms in the county to supply free menstrual products. Become a member of WAMU: wamu.org/donate Send us questions and comments for guests: kojo@wamu.org Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/wamu885 Follow us on Facebook:facebook.com/thepoliticshour

There's an ugly fight going on about terrible conditions, tenant protests, and questionable evictions at an apartment building in DC's Brookland neighborhood — and it raises questions about just what your rights are as a tenant in Washington. Morgan Baskin from DCist has been covering it and is here to tell us what's going on. Want some more DC news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter Hey DC! Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE. Check us out on Twitter! Follow us at @citycast_dc. And we'd love to feature you on the show! Share your DC-related thoughts, hopes, and frustrations with us in a voicemail by calling 202-642-2654. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you know that D.C.'s public housing authority is the poorest performing one in the country? Yikes. The federal government gave DCHA a scathing review and some time to improve. The deadline is up tomorrow. So how is it doing? Morgan Baskin, WAMU's Housing & Development Reporter, is here to fill us in. Want some more DC news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter Hey DC! Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE We're also on Twitter! Follow us at @citycast_dc And we'd love to feature you on the show! Share your DC-related thoughts, hopes, and frustrations with us in a voicemail by calling 202-642-2654. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Homelessness rose across the region from January 2022 through January 2023. We talk with WAMU reporter Morgan Baskin about the latest point-in-time count, and how local leaders are addressing the issue. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors adopted a budget this week that will lower property tax rates for residents. But with rising real estate values, homeowners are still expected to see an annual increase in tax bills. Hunter Mill Supervisor Walter Alcorn (D) joins Kojo and Tom to talk about the budget, which also includes a pay boost for supervisors and county employees. And does he have any endorsements to make in the primaries for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors? In D.C., homicides are up by 9% compared to this time last year. We talk with D.C. Councilmember Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2), who chairs the council's public safety committee, about how the city is approaching crime and what solutions may come from this week's Public Safety Summit. Plus, what does the councilmember think of a congestion charge being added to rideshares going in and out of downtown?

We are joined for the full hour by geopolitical financial expert and financial historian, Nomi Prins, to discuss her new book, “Permanent Distortion: How Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever,” which highlights the huge gap between the high-flying stock market, versus back down here on earth, where average people struggle to make ends meet.Nomi Prins is an economist, author, geopolitical financial expert and financial historian. She is the author of several books, including Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World, All the Presidents' Bankers, Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America, and It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street. Her latest book is Permanent Distortion: How Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever.The idea of “Permanent Distortion” is that when the financial system needs it, it gets the money. And lot of it. And in an uncapped way. And in an unregulated way. And in a non-transparent way. When the real economy needs it, it's years of debate.Nomi PrinsThere's no such thing as, “This bailout didn't cost taxpayers money.” Because…money that goes into the banking system does not go into the real economy. Which means there is a shortfall in the real economy. Which means that money cannot be reallocated into the real economy. Whether that is to build bridges, or hospitals, or to enhance our education system, or help workers. Because it's going somewhere else.Nomi PrinsThere are people that will say, “Well, SVB (the failure of Silicon Valley Bank) has nothing to do with Glass-Steagall,” and that's just simply wrong. Any over-leverage in the banking system that can take down the rest of the banking system— or that can create that sort of lack of confidence, instability, creation of money to save it that doesn't go into the real economy— is a part of that problem.Nomi PrinsThere's a huge propaganda machine. And it's interesting that the destabilization of the real economy comes so frequently from the speculation of the paper economy.Ralph NaderIn Case You Haven't Heard1. In Israel, the planned judicial reform law has sparked nothing less than a popular uprising, with Haaretz reporting that as many as half a million protesters have taken to the streets. Prime Minister Netanyahu is wheeling and dealing like mad to cling to power. Barak Ravid reports that Netanyahu sacked the Minister of Defense after he called for suspending the judicial reform push. Itamar Ben-Gvir, leader of perhaps the most extreme party in the right-wing coalition government, has threatened to quit the coalition if the judicial overhaul is delayed – but may have been appeased by a promise from Netanyahu to make the National Guard answerable directly to Ben-Gvir, per the Jerusalem Post. Axios reports that Jewish Democrats in Congress met with the Israeli Ambassador and warned him that if the bill is pushed through, it will be harder for them “to talk about Israel the same way they used to.”2. A new paper published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review – by David Arkush of Public Citizen and Donald Braman of the George Washington University Law School – posits whether fossil fuel companies should be charged with homicide. The authors argue these corporations “have not simply been lying to the public, they have been killing members of the public at an accelerating rate, and prosecutors should bring that crime to the public's attention.”3. In the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation that would bar big bank executives from serving on Federal Reserve Boards. Chairman Sanders said “The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of working people and the middle class.”4. The Huffington Post reports that Rep. Ilhan Omar has introduced a bill to “Condemn Anti-Muslim Hate.” The bill was crafted to honor the 51 Muslims killed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019, and it was introduced on the first day of Ramadan. Omar is quoted saying “We...know that this increase in hate is not isolated to only Muslims. Church bombings, synagogue attacks, and racial hate crimes are also on the rise. In order to confront the evils of religious bigotry and hatred, we must come to understand that all our destinies are linked.”5. An investigation by Morgan Baskin of DCist found that “local developers are buying rent-controlled apartments, clearing out existing tenants, and marketing to housing choice voucher holders” because the DC Housing Authority engages in routine over-payments. In so doing, these developers are “eroding affordable housing.”6. In Brazil, Democracy Now! reports that the Lula government has successfully removed “almost all illegal gold mining operations…from Yanomami Indigenous territory.” Lula campaigned on the promise to remove these mining operations, which have “displaced people, devastated the land and food resources, and contaminated rivers with mercury.”7. Ever have a hard time canceling a subscription or recurring fee online? In a video by More Perfect Union, FTC Chair Lina Khan explained how the agency is taking aim at a pervasive corporate manipulation tactic nicknamed “click to subscribe, call to cancel” in which companies make it easy to sign up for a service, but make it very difficult to cancel it. The new rule – called “click to cancel” – would mandate that (1) it must be as easy to cancel a service as it is to sign up for it and (2) consumers must be able to cancel using the same method they used to sign up.8. From PBS: In Florida, Governor DeSantis is expanding the “Don't Say Gay” censorship law to high-schools. Supporters of this bill had previously insisted that it was only intended to curtail discussions of sensitive topics for young children. This expansion clearly undermines that argument.9. In Chicago, the International Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America hosted Cuban Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera at the 35th Ward - 8th District Office for a meeting with local elected officials and faith leaders. They discussed the harmful U.S. embargo and strengthening goodwill between the people of Cuba and the United States. This meeting was attended by Cook County Commissioner Anthony J. Quezada and Aldermen Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, Byron Sigcho Lopez, and Rossana Rodriguez.10. From the New York Times: At a chocolate factory in Reading, Pennsylvania, a massive explosion has left at least seven dead and more missing. Activists are calling for a thorough and swift investigation into the factory's owners, the R.M. Palmer Company. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

Late last week, D.C. Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development John Falcicchio resigned. This week, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced she is investigating Falcicchio, her longtime adviser, for sexual harassment. WAMU/DCist reporter Martin Austermuhle gives us the context. Plus, we talk about next week's congressional hearing on D.C. crime. A new investigation from WAMU/DCist's Morgan Baskin finds that local real estate companies are taking advantage of D.C.'s Housing Choice Voucher program. The strategy: purchasing rent-stabilized buildings, buying out current tenants, adding more bedrooms (which boosts the price), and renting units through housing subsidy programs, where landlords can collect two or three times the rent they would on the normal market. But new tenants of these flipped buildings often live in unsafe or poorly kept apartments. Baskin joins us to discuss her findings and how this practice is impacting the D.C. rental market. The Arlington County Board unanimously passed a zoning change that will allow multifamily buildings to be built on areas previously reserved for single-family homes. We talk with Board Chair Christian Dorsey (D) about what this means for future development in the county. Become a member of WAMU: wamu.org/donate Send us questions and comments for guests: kojo@wamu.org Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/politicshour Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/thepoliticshour

On this week's episode of Washington City Podcast, housing reporter Morgan Baskin talks about the relationship between housing and health. She looks at childhood asthma, which can be exacerbated by poor housing conditions. Host Will Warren also looks at the week's news, including a true crime thriller and the art of the entree. He also recommends City Paper's "Day Tripper" issue, which is full of recommendations on ways to get out of town this weekend. Stories in this episode: Did The Princeton Place Killer Take Credit for a Murder He Didn't Commit? Adrift in a Sea of Small Plates? These D.C. Restaurants Embrace The Art of the Entree. The Best D.C. Day Trips Doctors Blame D.C.'s High Asthma Rates in Part on Poor Housing What Life Is Like—Still—In D.C.’s Public Housing Nearly One-Third of the City’s Public Housing Stock Is at Risk of Becoming Uninhabitable DCHA Says Thousands of Units Are Nearly Uninhabitable. Tenants Want to Know: What's Next? Music for this episode was by Lee Rosevere and Jahzzar used under the Creative Commons license. 

This week on Washington City Podcast we go behind the scenes at Kaliwa, a new restaurant on The Wharf. Food editor Laura Hayes and host Will Warren got a behind-the-scenes look at the restaurant's first day open to the public. The two reporters sat in on a pre-dinner meeting and talked to Chef Cathal Armstrong and his staff to learn just what goes into opening a new restaurant in D.C. Also in this episode, Morgan Baskin, City Paper's housing reporter, gives an update on the city's plans to close down D.C. General, the District's largest homeless shelter.

This week’s Washington City Podcast looks at some of the biggest stories in D.C. We explore the scandal involving former D.C. Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson that continues to raise questions within and outside of the Wilson Building with politics reporter Andrew Giambrone. Later in the episode, our food editor, Laura Hayes, shares her new reporting on food trucks, and our housing reporter, Morgan Baskin, walks us through a change to D.C.’s long-standing Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act.

Andray Domise, Desmond Cole and Supriya Dwivedi broadcast LIVE to a packed room at the Monarch Tavern in Toronto. Feat. Jesse Brown in Toronto, Jen Gerson at Harper HQ in Calgary, Drew Brown in Edmonton and Morgan Baskin in Squamish. #CL42 Warning: there's some profanity in this one.Support COMMONS: http://commonspodcast.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Morgan Baskin is a Corktown resident who ran for mayor of Toronto when she was 18 years old. Morgan's 19 now, and though she didn't win the election, she's still committed to making Hogtown a better place. Morgan spoke with us about protesting Mike Harris as a toddler, overnight fame, and how being a public servant is anything but private. She also talked about how she hates issue-based campaigns, debating Doug and Olivia, and what she plans on doing now that the circus has left town.