Amy Eddings

Amy Eddings appears in the following:

Can NYC Learn Recycling Lessons from San Francisco?

Monday, November 25, 2002

When the city suspended plastic and metal recycling last summer, Mayor Michael Bloomberg argued the programs were an expensive failure. But recycling advocates wonder why New York City has failed where other cities have succeeded. Today and tomorrow, recycling advocates are hosting a roundtable in ...

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Bishop Daily's Deposition Made Public

Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Bishop Thomas Daily, the Bishop of Brooklyn, says he knew an alleged pedophile priest had endorsed sex between men and boys before Daily appointed him to lead a Boston suburban parish twenty years ago. Daily was the second-in-command in the Archdiocese of Boston from the ...

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Smoke Free Cali -- Lessons NYC Could Learn

Friday, October 11, 2002

While the city council heard debates on the merits of the mayor's proposed smoking ban, California has been living with such a ban for four years. WNYC's Amy Eddings went west to see what may be in store for smokers here.

James Dawson has some ...

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Jehovah's Witnesses: Church Policy HIdes Abuse?

Monday, September 30, 2002

About 50 people protested in front of the world headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses, in Brooklyn Heights, calling for a change in the way the church handles allegations of child sexual abuse. WNYC's Amy Eddings reports.

People, chanting: One two three four! Silent Lambs, no more!

The ...

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Indian Point 2 Conducts Safety Drill, Amid Criticism

Wednesday, September 25, 2002

The Indian Point Two nuclear power plant's bienniel emergency drills are typically conducted under close watch; the drills are evaluated by federal nuclear regulators and emergency response officials. Yesterday's drill, the first for the plant since September 11th, came with heightened scrutiny by the media, ...

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City Settles Fate of Community Gardens

Thursday, September 19, 2002

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 ...

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Employers Face An Atypical Work Day on September 11th

Thursday, September 05, 2002

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 ...

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Bloomberg Announces Revised Trash Plan

Thursday, August 01, 2002

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is backing away from former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's plan to send half the city's trash to a proposed waste transfer station in Linden, New Jersey. That facility was going to take raw garbage and load it into containers for shipment to out-of-state ...

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Local Catholics Consider Joining a Movement for Change

Monday, July 22, 2002

The first international conference of lay Catholics to convene as a result of the child sexual abuse scandal drew about 180 people from the Tri-State area. Saturday's day-long "Voice of the Faithful" conference in Boston focused on ways to encourage greater involvement by the laity ...

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Port Ivory Trash Plan

Friday, July 19, 2002

Mayor Michael Bloomberg had orginally planned to unveil a new strategy for handling the city's trash by today, his 200th day in office. He now says that announcement will come next week. The administration has been trying to save a proposal to ship half the ...

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Fresh Kills Recovery Effort Ends

Tuesday, July 16, 2002

Another chapter in the World Trade Center tragedy ended yesterday, with the closure of the recovery effort at the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island. The simple ceremony honored the hundreds of people who toiled for the last ten months, sifting through one-point-six million tons ...

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Mayor and City Council Finally Reach Budget Deal

Thursday, June 20, 2002

By borrowing one point five billion dollars, the mayor and the council claim they've been able to close a staggering five billion dollar deficit without too much pain.

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Egan Puts NY Face on Texas Gathering

Monday, June 17, 2002

The head of the New York Archdiocese, Cardinal Edward Egan, was active during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Dallas, putting a New York face on that gathering. His views helped shape the new policy on child sexual abuse by priests. WNYC's Mark Hilan speaks ...

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American Bishops Voting

Friday, June 14, 2002

In a closed-door session, after a morning spent listening to victims and concerned lay Catholics, bishops discussed a draft policy on child sexual abuse. Bishops have indicated that they're close to agreeing on a "zero tolerance" policy for any priest who abuses children, in the past ...

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Archbishop Takes Stock of His Committee's Draft

Wednesday, June 12, 2002

Top Roman Catholic officials from the metropolitan area are heading to Dallas today for the U-S Conference of Catholic Bishops, where they'll vote on a draft set of procedures for handling priests who are accused of sexually abusing a minor. Some of the proposal's recommendations ...

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Visy Paper Mill Seen As Recycling Success Story

Wednesday, June 05, 2002

The Bloomberg Administration and the City Council are expected to miss today's deadline for a budget agreement. One of the sticking points in the negotiations has been the fate of the city's glass, metal and plastic recycling program. Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to suspend it ...

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Priest Charged with Molesting a Young Girl in 1999

Friday, May 24, 2002

A Roman Catholic priest from India, who was studying and working in New York City, has been charged with sexually abusing a twelve year old girl. The alleged abuse took place in 1999, when Father Francis Nelson was working at St. Mary's Star of the ...

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EPA Cleanup Downtown

Friday, May 10, 2002

The Environmental Protection Agency says it will have an apartment clean-up program in place by the end of the month for Lower Manhattan residents whose homes were shrouded in dust and ash after the World Trade Center collapsed. The EPA is calling the effort unprecedented, ...

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The 'Father Shanley' Letters

Monday, May 06, 2002

Brooklyn's Bishop, Thomas V. Daily, formerly served in the Archdiocese of Boston as an Auxiliary Bishop, as one of the deputies of the late Cardinal Humberto S. Medeiros. Because of his role in the Archdiocesan administration, Bishop Daily has been named as a defendant in ...

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Chelsea Blast Evokes 9/11 Fears

Friday, April 26, 2002

12 people remain critically injured from an explosion that took place in a 10-story commercial building on West 19th Street. At least 40 people were injured. Fire officials say the explosion took place in the building's basement. They're still not sure what caused it, but ...

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