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b"\\u2014New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation on Tuesday amid a mushrooming sexual harassment scandal. Kathy Hochul will take his place and become New York\\u2019s first female governor. Cuomo was also under investigation for his role in covering up the deaths of thousands of nursing home patients who perished at the height of the pandemic last year and for using state workers to help him write a book about his leadership during the pandemic which he received $5 million for writing.\\nRoss Barkan, the author of The Political Currents newsletter on Substack, a must read for understanding the latest on state and local politics, comes on air to talk about Cuomo's resignation. \\n\\u2014Barbara Bowen, who was the President of Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York, reflects on the resignation and talks about how difficult it was to be a progressive union leader for the past 10 years under Cuomo's governance. \\n\\u2014In North Brooklyn, National Grid has begun construction on a controversial new liquid natural gas pipeline which would bring highly volatile fracked gas from Pennsylvania to New York. Its opponents see the $185 million project as both a public health hazard and bad energy policy as it would further lock the city into a dependence on natural gas for decades to come instead of speeding up a transition to 100% renewable energy. Residents\\u2019 opposition has temporarily stopped construction of Phase 5 of the pipeline, but National Grid has not given up on those projects. The pipeline's opposition just began a strike campaign encouraging NYers to withhold $66 from their gas bills. Lee Ziesche of Sane Energy Project, a major player in the opposition, speaks about the current status of the pipeline."