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Tuesday night, the 13th, is the first debate between Bill Thompson and Michael Bloomberg in the 2009 Mayor's contest. Brian Lehrer is on the moderating panel, ...

STUCK IN THE STATE WE ARE IN
By Bob Hennelly, Senior Reporter, WNYC
HOW LANDUSE, HOME RULE AND OVER DEVELOPMENT ARE LINKED TO EVER ESCALATING PROPERTY TAXES


I first started covering New Jersey landuse 30 years ago for the Ramsey Mahwah Reporter. I went ...

Brian Lehrer on Good Morning America

The Brian Lehrer Show's listener-reporter collaboration, Your Uncommon Economic Indicators, has certainly helped shape how we view the recent recession.

As Brian told the host of Good Morning America on Sunday, ...

This fall, the 30 Issues in 30 Days Series will be honing in on the New York Mayoral race and the NJ Gubernatorial contest. And, as with last Fall's series, we are crowdsourcing the project. We asked for you to ...

Note: The Nominating Process is Over. We're on to stage two: Voting!

Once again, we're asking you to help produce our election series 30 Issues in 30 Days, this time focusing on the New York Mayoral race and the ...

Our online collaboration of economic coverage between listeners and the Brian Lehrer Show now has more than 700 posts, and occasionally we get a peek at some of the people producing the content. We thought you'd like to see them too!

During the show last Thursday, Brian reached out to you for book and music recommendations. In between callers, he played music recommended the show staff and other WNYC employees. This is the list of all of the songs played on the air.

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Femi Oke and the Takeaway team are trying their hand at shooting video of some economic indicators--in this case, more practical than uncommon, but still local stories about the economic impact. Perhaps those of you who entered our recent video contest gave them inspiration! Take a look:

It was great to meet our three video contest finalists and their friends in the Green Space on Thursday, and to celebrate all of the Uncommon Economic coverage you have helped us produce this year.

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Drastic changes in the economy have ground many developers’ plans to a halt in the New York City metro region. We’re tracking cranes on pause as the latest chapter of our project, Your Uncommon Economics Indicators. Help us map and photograph the empty condos, half-baked luxury high rises and stalled ...

The cooperative effort between The Brian Lehrer Show and the WNYC audience over the past six months to gather anecdotes, photos, calls and videos and tell the less-reported story about the 2009 Recession, has been named a Notable Entry in the Knight-Batten Awards ...

The cooperative effort between The Brian Lehrer Show and the WNYC audience over the past six months to gather anecdotes, photos, calls and videos and tell the less-reported story about the 2009 Recession, has been named a Notable Entry in the Knight-Batten Awards ...

Nick Corcodilos is the man behind "Ask the Headhunter" and also our guest every Thursday for the month of July. Each week, there have been lots and lots of questions for Nick that we haven't been able to get to on the air. So, he's agreed to stick around and ...

President Obama gives his fourth prime-time news conference tonight. He's expected to keep making the case for significant health care reform, ideally before the August Congressional recess. Join Brian as he shares his thoughts and answers your questions, all in real time!

Chat will go live just before 8pm Wednesday. ...

Comptroller Bill Thompson in an earlier interview with the show

The city comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr., called for greater mayoral control of schools today. Speaking on The Brian Lehrer ...

Drastic changes in the economy have ground many developers' plans to a halt in the New York City metro region. We're tracking cranes on pause as the latest chapter of our project, Your Uncommon Economics Indicators. Help us map and photograph the empty condos, half-baked luxury high rises and stalled ...

Here are the 32 controversial words that will be at the center of the hearings:

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

And here, from ...