Nancy Solomon

WNYC reporter and director of the Transportation Nation blog Andrea Bernstein and independent public radio reporter Nancy Solomon join us to talk about the new documentary "Back of the Bus: Race, Mass Transit, and Inequality."

Nancy Solomon, independent reporter and producer of the Peabody Award-winning radio documentary "Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students"  talks about Facebook's $100 million pledge to help Newark schools.

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Cory Booker is seeking a second term as mayor of Newark in municipal elections tomorrow. Four years ago, Booker replaced Sharpe James, who had run the city for two decades, and ended up serving time on federal corruption charges soon after leaving office. Booker promised ...

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Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine is the first Democrat to lost a statewide election in 12 years

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's election victory over incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine was the first time in 12 years that a Democrat lost a statewide election. Much of ...

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Chris Christie won the New Jersey governor's race last night defeating Jon Corzine and becoming the first Republican to win statewide office there in 12 years. Nancy Solomon reports.

REPORTER:Christie is a former federal prosecutor who made a name for himself putting corrupt democrats in jail. ...

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The New Jersey governor’s race is also in its last days, as the three candidates criss-cross the state looking for every last vote. The latest polls show Governor Jon Corzine and Republican challenger Chris Christie in a dead heat. Christie visited his home county yesterday, ...

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From the earliest days of the presidential campaign, Rudy Giuliani has believed his road to victory would run straight through New Jersey.

He's long had a strong base of support in the state and until recently, had a large lead in polls.

But a new poll released ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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, ...