1) Ed Koch, New York City Mayor, discusses his new plan to forcibly put mentally ill homeless people in to state mental health centers. Governor Cuomo adopts a wait and see stance about the plans effectiveness. 2) Brenda McMann reports on the failure of many big rigs to pass random safety tests. 3) Alan Chartock and Daniel Walsh, head of public policy for the New York State Business Council, talk about the future plans and changes taking place in the Council. 4) Brenda McMann reports on smuggling of cigarettes. Federal Native American reservations do not have to apply sales taxes and are relying on cigarettes and diesel sales for revenue. 5) Alan Chartock and Fred Dicker, of New York Post, discuss Mayor Koch's and Governor Cuomo's stance on the mentally ill homeless and the failure of the current system

Date created

• 1987 September 3

Type

• Audio

Creator

• Alan Chartock

Original Medium

• Audiocassette

Duration

• 4:47:00

Date Digitized

• 2012 October 9

Master Format

• MP3

Identifier

• nam_apap_138_lg_1987_09_03

Subject

• Tax evasion
• Automobiles--Inspection
• Mentally ill homeless persons

Digitization Specifications

• Encoding: 24bit/48khz; Software: Pro Tools LE 8.0.3 ; Hardware: Marantz PMD500 Stereo Double Cassette Deck, Mac OS X with a 2.66 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor.

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

  
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ITEM CONTEXT

Part of

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Scope and Contents

Collection

WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the New York State Modern Political Archive