NEW YORK, NY July 19, 2007 —The same week the federal government warned of a strengthened al-Qaeda, the Department of Homeland Security handed the New York region some mixed news on anti-terror funding. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

There was no repeat of last year's public relations fiasco when officials at DOH said New York City had no national icons. The city retained its national 1st place position in municipal anti-terror grants. But the Bush administration and Congress still have yet to adopt the 9/11 Commission's call to make all security funding risk-based. In this grant go-around, New Jersey got over $90 million, about a 3rd of which will be applied to help secure the target rich areas in and around Jersey City and Newark.

The best news for the region's first responders came from the Department of Commerce. New Jersey will get more than $17 million to upgrade emergency radio networks, while New York City and the state will share more than $60 million to improve their radio interoperability. For WNYC, I'm Bob Hennelly.