Josh Durso and Jackie Augustine are back on The Debrief with a wide-ranging conversation about quick fixes, hard choices, and the bigger systems communities depend on every day.
This episode looks at local budget pressure, code enforcement, housing concerns, abandoned buildings, and the political temptation to reach for small revenue ideas instead of confronting structural problems. Then, the conversation shifts to New York’s electric grid, where rising demand, transmission bottlenecks, electrification, data centers, manufacturing growth, and recent power disruptions are raising serious questions about reliability.
It’s a conversation about accountability, infrastructure, and what happens when leaders wait too long to deal with problems everyone can see coming.
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