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Idea 44 was so good that it got adopted. Now expensive and divisive run off elections have been replaced by ranked choice voting. It's still a fairly new idea but we’ve seen it in action in elections in our city and in places as far flung as Alaska and Maine. This week, Anthony examines what we know and what is yet to be revealed about this new type of voting. To unpack the pros and the cons, we turned to a consummate legal pro. Jerry Goldfeder of Strook & Strook & Lavan literally wrote the book about election law and gives high grades to RCV.

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New York is a city of tall buildings and marquee companies. But the capital of big corporate is actually a town where most businesses are small. In fact, the anchor of our economy is the neighborhood store. In today's episode Anthony suggests one idea to make life easier for small businesses and one to make them hum with new customers. Our expert conversation is with Rob Walsh. Mr. Walsh was the longest serving Commissioner of the Department of Small Business Services and now is a lecturer, radio personality on 1010 WINS and leader of JGSC Group which helps neighborhood shopping strips thrive.  

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Everyone can agree that New York is an expensive place to live, but what to do about it? There seems to be a structural imbalance between supply and demand. So what can the government do? What are the arrows in our civic quiver? Anthony takes a stab at updating one program and breathing new life into another. Along to bring a reality check is Hon. Gifford Miller. One time rivals for mayor, now they share a title : "elder statesman" but Mr. Miller is building on that at his company, Signature Urban Properties

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Some of the Keys have been adopted and some have been overtaken by time, but Idea #84 is as fresh and vital as ever – getting Albany out of our schools. We all know who is in charge of the school. It’s the principal, of course. But who oversees the policies governing our education of 1 million school kids in over 1,000 buildings? It’s complicated and maybe intentionally so. If you like blurry lines of authority and intragovernmental finger pointing, you won’t like today’s idea. Our guest this episode is perfectly positioned to help us figure this out. Quintessential New Yorker, former teacher and chairman of the Assembly Education Committee, Michael Benedetto of the Bronx came to this conversation well-armed.

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If you skipped most of the cacophony of the first take, Anthony tries to make amends with a conversation with a man who has quite nearly written the book about the implementation, adoption, and future of the policies around police body cameras. Dr. Rudolph Hall now has the title of Chief, but he has had many more in his more than 20 years in law enforcement. Calm, thoughtful and insightful is the perfect palate cleanser for whatever that last conversation was.

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After a few years of the biggest experiment in the use of police body worn cameras, Anthony looks at how this idea is working on 24,000 officers and wonders if he got it right in with Idea #74. But issues of over surveillance, storage costs and the rights of the press took a back seat when Anthony’s guest, John Jay College Professor Eugene O’Donnell, decided he was going to do his version of “but her emails” and refuse to engage the subject. What he did have to say, when Anthony wasn’t talking over him, was worthwhile. So, judge for yourself or just wait for next Thursday to Episode 10.1 where the body camera discussion gets its due consideration.

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This episode may not appeal to the oligarchs, princes and masters of the universe who shop for New York apartments in the $50 million range. But Anthony has an idea for the rest of us this week. We love when the big spenders come to town but a progressive tax that supports our subways is great too. Jason Haber knows a thing or two about this subject, he sold the biggest apartment in the tallest building for $70.5 million. He and Anthony agree on a surprising amount.  

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Anthony continues his search for that mythical creature – the idea we can all agree upon. On this week’s Keys to the City, it’s in sight – ending the moral blight of children in our city going hungry. He sees a policy fix and consensus in the making but his guest, Joel Berg brings decades of experience and a bucket of cold water to the conversation.  

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Is there any ritual more New York than the morning dance of alternate side parking? But does it make sense? Anthony looks at the zero-sum game of who gets to park where, when and for how long. Idea 111 is on the agenda in this week’s episode as he is joined by a tough critic of cars in the city – and longtime fixture of New York journalism – Gersh Kuntzman of Streetsblog NYC. Listen to the end for Gersh to bring the hammer down for one of Anthony’s more infamous quotes.

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