As election day approaches, Bob Hennelly looks at the evolution of the US Senate race in New Jersey. Is Frank Lautenberg's age a factor? Will Douglass Forrester be able to bring his numbers up among women?

Nationally there are just a few open Congressional seats voters are certain to fill with a new face. New Jersey's fifth congressional district is one of them. With no incumbent among the candidates running, and with control of Congress in the balance, the stakes there are high. WNYC's Bob Hennelly ...

As the clock runs out, Democrat Carl McCall and Republican Governor Pataki are both trying to energize their CORE supporters. This, as a new poll finds Pataki's lead over McCall is widening. We have two reports. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein looks at how Pataki is wooing upstate voters. But first, WNYC's ...

If you are one of the more than three
million Americans investing in an employer-sponsored contribution plan, you've probably gotten disturbing glimpse into your future well-being. Third quarter statements hit mailboxes over the last few weeks, and the news is overwhelmingly bad: US stock mutual funds fell more than 17-percent in ...

A federal judge is weighing arguments about how much freedom the New York Police Department should have to monitor the activities of political groups. Current law requires the NYPD to prove there's reason to suspect a crime before keeping records about individuals or sending out an undercover. WNYC's Marianne McCune ...

A federal judge is weighing arguments about how much freedom the New York Police Department should have to monitor the activities of political groups. Current law requires the NYPD to prove there's reason to suspect a crime before keeping records about individuals or sending out an undercover. WNYC's Marianne McCune ...

A federal judge is weighing arguments about how much freedom the New York Police Department should have to monitor the activities of political groups. Current law requires the NYPD to prove there's reason to suspect a crime before keeping records about individuals or sending out an undercover. WNYC's Marianne McCune ...

A federal judge is weighing arguments about how much freedom the New York Police Department should have to monitor the activities of political groups. Current law requires the NYPD to prove there's reason to suspect a crime before keeping records about individuals or sending out an undercover. WNYC's Marianne McCune ...

Help-wanted ads are clamoring for nurses: Make a Difference! the ads shout, and Top Pay - All units, all shifts! Nursing shortages have come and gone in recent decades, but new research says the situation is getting worse - for both hospitals and the patients they serve. WNYC's Fred Mogul ...

A federal judge is weighing arguments about how much freedom the New York Police Department should have to monitor the activities of political groups. Current law requires the NYPD to prove there's reason to suspect a crime before keeping records about individuals or sending out an undercover. WNYC's Marianne McCune ...

Polls show New York Voters say the economy is their top concern this election season. Republican governor George Pataki argues he's the best candidate to deal with the current recession because of his success in creating 600 thousand jobs over the past 8 years. But most of those jobs were ...

Bishop Thomas Daily, the Bishop of Brooklyn, says he knew an alleged pedophile priest had endorsed sex between men and boys before Daily appointed him to lead a Boston suburban parish twenty years ago. Daily was the second-in-command in the Archdiocese of Boston from the mid-70's to 1984. His comments ...

Americans opposed to a war against Iraq are hoping for a big turnout for a protest rally in Washington DC today. WNYC's Brian Lehrer thinks the new anti-war movement could become a force in American politics -or not.

There's been one coordinated day of anti-Iraq war protests around the country so ...

Next spring, the State Legislature will vote, yet again, whether to continue New York's Rent Stabilization laws. It was back in 1997 when sweeping changes were made that allowed some of the more than one-million stabilized apartments to eventually become de-stabilized. Now, the city is seeing how the current law ...

Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone, one of the foremost liberals in Congress, was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota on Friday along with his wife, daughter and five others, campaign officials said.

Wellstone, 58, had been in the final days of a tight battle for re-election in a race that ...

Huge contracts were handed out in the days and weeks following September 11 to clean up the World Trade Center site. Ultimately, a team of 169 companies was put in place. Their work was widely lauded for being completed early and under budget. A WNYC analysis has found a quarter ...

US Senate candidate Doug Forrester is struggling to define himself in the eyes of New Jersey voters. Before Senator Robert Torricelli dropped out of the race, the Republican candidate often emphasized that he was not Torricelli -- and did well in the polls, partly as a result. Now polls show ...

Carl McCall's decision to challenge governor George Pataki means there's an open seat for the job of State Comptroller. Two candidates are vying for the post - Republican State Assemblyman John Faso and former City Comptroller Alan Hevesi.

The state controller is responsible for auditing government agencies and managing one of ...

The New York State gubernatorial candidates hold their second and very possibly final debate on Sunday. Again, at Governor Pataki's insistence, debate number two will include all seven candidates on the ballot. WNYC's Brian Lehrer may be the only person in the state who liked debate number one.


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