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Fighting Crime in Newark

Ron Rice, Jr., City Council member for Newark's West Ward, believes that if immigration laws had been upheld, New Jersey's triple homicide two weeks ago would not have happened.

Ron Rice's Website

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How Do We Fix the Infrastructure?

Transportation engineer and Daily News columnist Sam Schwartz explains how federal funding discourages infrastructure maintenance, and Queens City Councilman David Weprin argues that the city needs a special commission to address infrastructure issues.

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Dollars for Congestion Pricing

The federal Department of Transportation announced this morning that it will help to fund Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan. WNYC reporter Beth Fertig explains the details.

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Culture at Play

Programs encouraging low income parents to play with their children the way upper and middle class parents do are gaining attention as a means of improving the children’s school performance. Utah State University anthropologist David Lancy questions the evidence supporting intervention, which is based in part of the work of University of Maryland sociologist Annette Lareau. They discuss this nexis of race, class, achievement and parenting.

Here's a recent article from The Boston Globe about parent-child play.

Professor David Lancy's webpage
Professor Annette Lareau's webpage

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The Line Up

Tim Reilly, author of Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary and editor of Rileyrockindex.com and Dan Morgenstern, director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University and author of Living With Jazz (Pantheon Books, 2004) discuss the dying art of liner notes in the music world.

Tim Riley's Rock Index

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