Nancy Solomon

New York, NY —

One of the most difficult decisions state child protection workers make is whether to permanently remove abused or neglected youngsters from their parents’ custody.

They must weigh severing the parent/child relationship forever against keeping children safe.

At the heart of making this decision are the visits between ...

New York, NY —

New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine will soon announce his plan to use the New Jersey Turnpike to bail out the state’s financial problems. It’s unclear whether it will entail some sort of leasing plan that would sell the rights to operate the state’s toll roads.

Or ...

New York, NY —

Even though Manhattan is an island, New Jersey is expected to be a lot harder to protect from the effects of global warming. New Jersey’s long, built-up coast line and its heavily populated lowlands would be near impossible to save if current trends in rising ...

New York, NY —

As New Jersey tries to grapple with shrinking resources, one of the sacred cows of its education system is coming under scrutiny: local control. The state has 616 school districts – more than Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania combined. About one third of those districts, 223 ...

New York, NY —

Most New Yorkers have a fairly firm idea of what is Jewish food. Bagels - check. Yona Schimmel's knishes - definitely. When it comes to Jewish music, the boundaries may expand a bit to include rock-klezmer or Sephardic music from the Mediterranean and Middle East. ...

Scarsdale, NY —

Last fall, hundreds of Scarsdale High School students arrived at the homecoming dance so drunk that many were taken to the hospital for alcohol poisoning. Around the same time, a 17-year-old boy from Harrison was killed in a drinking-related accident. Now, after eight months of meetings, ...