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Law Enforcement & Immigrants

Friday, September 20, 2002

By Marianne McCune : Reporter, WNYC News

Since September 11th, many immigrants to New York and New Jersey are living in fear of law enforcement - especially those from South Asia and the Middle East. Some don't have current immigration papers, and worry contact with an official will result in their detention and deportation. Community leaders are ...

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TIPS

Friday, September 20, 2002

By Marianne McCune : Reporter, WNYC News

For the past year, law enforcement officials have been exhorting civilians to be alert', and to report the unusual. Everyone from the president to New York's police commissioner has urged citizens to get involved. But getting people to take part in the hunt for terrorists without fostering distrust between them ...

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City Settles Fate of Community Gardens

Thursday, September 19, 2002

By Amy Eddings

After three years of legal battles, the future of New York's 600 city-owned community gardens is no longer in doubt. Under an agreement between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, hundreds of them will be protected from development. Others will be used for affordable housing. WNYC's Amy ...

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New York City's Homeless Crisis

Thursday, September 19, 2002

By Cindy Rodriguez

As the city struggles to find space for families entering the shelter system, those waiting for permanent housing are also part of the problem. Families who are placed in the next level of shelter often linger there for nearly a year. That's a jump from 2 years ago when the ...

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Family Representation After 9/11

Wednesday, September 18, 2002

By Allison Keyes

In the weeks after the September 11th attacks, relatives of the victims began to form support groups to help deal with their grief and trauma. Now, if you search 9-11 families on the internet -- you'll come up with more than 420 thousand matches. Several family organizations have formed a ...

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Mental Health After 9/11

Wednesday, September 18, 2002

By Allison Keyes

In the wake of the September 11th attacks, New York City launched the largest mental health campaign in the country. Organizers were hoping to reach out to the millions who were traumatized by the attacks and offer them counseling. But a year later, despite studies showing that as many as ...

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Commentary: Remembrance

Monday, September 16, 2002

By Brian Lehrer

It's been an emotional week of remembrances for the New York City area. But WNYC's Brian Lehrer says sad as this week may have been, it also highlights something to be thankful for that we may take for granted.

For most people, the emotional peak of Wednesday's memorials was the reading ...

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Firemen on September 11th

Thursday, September 12, 2002

By Beth Fertig

As anticipated, yesterday was a solemn day for the city's firefighters. Nearly one out of every ten people who died last September 11th was a New York City firefighter and each firehouse held its own ceremony to commemorate the loss. WNYC's Beth Fertig has this report on those remembrances.

Breakfast ...

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New Yorkers Mark September 11th

Thursday, September 12, 2002

By Marianne McCune : Reporter, WNYC News

New Yorkers and those who joined them in the city yesterday marked the anniversary of September 11th in endlessly varied ways. Many created their own individual commemorations. Others joined in big and small public ceremonies across the city throughout the day. WNYC's Marianne McCune reports.

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Ground Zero Vendors

Monday, September 09, 2002

By Beth Fertig

Vendors selling World Trade Center trinkets will have to move further away from Ground Zero on the one year anniversary of the attacks... because of heightened security that day. Some people wish these peddlers would disappear for good. But as WNYC's Beth Fertig reports they're probably here to stay.

You ...

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The Preface to Fences and Windows

Friday, September 06, 2002

Preface Fences of Enclosure, Windows of Possibility

This is not a follow up to No Logo, the book about the rise of anti-corporate activism that I wrote between 1995 and 1999. That was a thesis-driven research project; Fences and Windows is a record of dispatches from the front lines of a ...

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Pro Logo vs. No Logo

Friday, September 06, 2002

Presented by WNYC Radio, The Nation, The Economist and The New York Society for Ethical Culture

7pm-9pm, Wednesday, September 25th, 2002
The New York Society for Ethical Culture: 2 West 64th Street
Free Admission; Arrive Early. Doors Open at 6:15pm

Join us for this free public debate between Nation writer ...

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Employers Face An Atypical Work Day on September 11th

Thursday, September 05, 2002

By Amy Eddings

Next week's anniversary of the terrorist attacks will find most New Yorkers at the same place they were a year ago: their jobs. At companies and organizations near the World Trade Center site, the workplace on that day could be an uncomfortable place. WNYC's Amy Eddings surveyed several organizations in ...

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Liberty Bonds

Thursday, September 05, 2002

By Allison Keyes

After hours, the streets of lower Manhattan often feel desolate and shutdown. Even before the horrific attacks of September 11th, the financial district was not a 24-hour community, but a place for millions of people to go to work.

Now, community advocates and some politicians say there is an opportunity ...

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A Reformer Who Can Shake Up Albany?

Tuesday, September 03, 2002

By Beth Fertig

In his race for governor, Democrat Andrew Cuomo portrays himself as a reformer who can shake up Albany. He often cites his leadership of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. As Assistant Secretary and, later, Secretary of HUD under former President Bill Clinton, Cuomo was charged with turning ...

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Sound Art Installation in Dumbo

Friday, August 30, 2002

By Judith Kampfner

Recordings of water and bridge traffic from the past blend with the sounds of the present-day waterfront in a new sound art installation. WNYC's Judith Kampfner reports from the ruins of an industrial space at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The exhibition on Water Street between Main and Dock ...

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State Comproller Also Up For Grabs

Thursday, August 29, 2002

By Andrea Bernstein

Voters go to the polls in 12 days not only to select a Democratic candidate for Governor, but also a candidate for State Comptroller. The state comptroller is responsible for analyzing the budget, auditing state funds, and investing the states $120 billion pension fund. But as WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reports, ...

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Finance For Students

Wednesday, August 28, 2002

By Soterios Johnson

It may be hard to believe...but it's that time of year again for millions of students...back-to-school!

And for most entering *college*...it's when they'll experience more independence than they've ever had before...and also a chance to rack up more debt....like they never have before.

In the 1990's, bankruptcies for people 25 years old ...

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Still undecided in the Democratic primary?

Wednesday, August 28, 2002

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo and State Comptroller H. Carl McCall are the candidates for governor. The primary takes place September 10th and both candidates are struggling to distinguish themselves on policy while calling into question the record of the incumbent, Republican George Pataki.

Brian Lehrer and ...

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Finance For Students

Tuesday, August 27, 2002

By Soterios Johnson

It may be hard to believe...but it's that time of year again for millions of students...back-to-school!

And for most entering *college*...it's when they'll experience more independence than they've ever had before...and also a chance to rack up more debt....like they never have before.

In the 1990's, bankruptcies for people 25 years old ...

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