Sarah Gonzalez

Reporter, WNYC/NJPR

Sarah Gonzalez appears in the following:

The 2 Things Booker, Lonegan Agreed on In Their First Senate Debate

Friday, October 04, 2013

WNYC

U.S. Senate candidates Cory Booker (D) and Steve Lonegan (R) disagreed on almost everything during their first debate today in Trenton.

Booker supports creating a pathway to citizenship for some undocumented people and offering federal financial aid to college students. Lonegen does not.  

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Newark Teacher's Union Fights $30 Million Grant

Thursday, October 03, 2013

WNYC

Newark schools are at risk of losing up to $30 million in federal money from the district's  Race to the Top grant.

The Newark Teacher’s Union supported the application last year but now Newark Schools Superintendent Cami Anderson says the union is the only one of the required groups that hasn't signed on.

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Four Tiny School Districts To Vote on Merger

Friday, September 20, 2013

WNYC
The parking lot at Stockton Elementary, a four-room schoolhouse near the Delaware River, is also the playground. The school with no auditorium or cafeteria is its own school distric...

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Why Hoboken Doesn't Have Its 9/11 Memorial Yet

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

WNYC

Twelve years after the September 11 attacks, Hoboken still has not built a permanent memorial to commemorate the 57 residents who died in the attacks.

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A Mother Receives Her Sons' Remains 12 Years After Attacks

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Twelve years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the loved ones of victims are still getting calls from the New York City Medical Examiner's Office about newly identified remains.

Sandra Grazioso from Clifton, N.J., said her family got one of those calls last week. She lost both of her sons in ...

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12 Years Later, 9-11 Remains Still Making Their Way to Families

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

WNYC

Twelve years after the September 11th attacks, the loved ones of 9/11 victims are still getting calls from the New York City Medical Examiner's Office about identified remains.

Sandra Grazioso from Clifton, N.J., said her family got one of those calls last week. Two more body parts belonging to one of her sons had been identified.

“An upper arm and shoulder and a tooth,” Grazioso said. “A molar.”

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Sen. Candidates Lonegan and Booker Clash Over Syria

Friday, September 06, 2013

WNYC

U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan criticized Democratic opponent Cory Booker for not taking a stance on whether to use force in Syria.

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Why Students ... and Teachers Aren't All in Class by the First Day of School

Friday, September 06, 2013

WNYC
On the first day of school at Weequahic High School in Newark just 300 of the school's 600 students showed up. And about 30 classrooms throughout the district did not have a teacher. ...

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68% of Newark High School Students Chronic to Severely-Chronically Absent

Thursday, September 05, 2013

WNYC

The average student in New Jersey’s largest city was absent more than 15 days last year, according to a new report by Newark Public Schools.

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72 Dolphins Wash Up Dead on New Jersey Beaches

Friday, August 30, 2013

WNYC

More than 70 dolphins have washed up dead on New Jersey beaches. Most are bottlenose dolphins, the mammals that star in movies and aquarium shows.

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Booker's Sexual Orientation Brought up in NJ Senate Race

Thursday, August 29, 2013

WNYC

The race between U.S. Senate hopefuls Republican Steve Lonegan and Democrat Cory Booker has gotten personal. The issue is Booker’s sexual orientation.

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Newark Teachers Get $1.3 Million in Performance-Based Bonus Checks

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

WNYC

More than $1.3 million in performance-based bonus checks are being issued to 190 teachers in Newark, N.J.

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Premature to Judge NJ Transit's Response to Sandy, Christie Says

Monday, August 26, 2013

WNYC

Gov. Chris Christie still isn't criticizing NJ Transit's handling of Sandy -- even after reports that New Jersey Transit did not follow its own hurricane plan to move rail cars to higher ground ahead of Sandy. Trains were parked in flood plains, resulting in more than $120 million in damages. But the governor -- who's known for his take-no-prisoners style --  did not declare any failure on behalf of NJ Transit.  

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First Batch of Stop-and-Frisk Data Released by Newark Police

Thursday, August 15, 2013

WNYC

Just over half of Newark's population is black. But in the month of July, blacks made up 72-percent of the Stop-and-Frisk cases, according to the first batch of data released today by the Newark Police Department.

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In TV Ads, Booker: 5. Holt and Pallone: 1

Friday, August 09, 2013

WNYC

Newark mayor Cory Booker has raised more than $2 million for his U.S. Senate race in the last month alone, and had five TV ads saturating the airwaves before any other candidate had released one.

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In Newark, Gunshot Detection System Falls Short of Booker's Claims

Friday, August 09, 2013

WNYC

Mayor Cory Booker touts the gunshot detection technology he brought in to combat gun violence. But, the impact of the technology has been, at best, modest.

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Special Election Will Cost NJ Taxpayers - But How Much?

Monday, August 05, 2013

WNYC

Gov. Chris Christie has agreed to reimburse counties for the additional costs of holding two special elections to fill a Senate seat in New Jersey. But taxpayers are still footing the bill.

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Republican U.S. Senate Hopefuls Struggle to Differentiate Themselves

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

WNYC

New Jersey hasn't sent a Republican to the U.S. Senate in more than three decades. In a News 12 debate between the Republican candidates Wednesday night, the two in the running had a hard time distinguishing themselves from each other.

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Christie's Concerns Over Expanding Medical Marijuana to Children

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

WNYC

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he is concerned about medical marijuana ending up in the hands of people it is not intended for if he approves a plan passed by the legislature to expand the program to children with certain debilitating illnesses. He says the bill is currently on his desk.

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Two Days Left for Homeowners Affected by Sandy to Apply for Grants

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

WNYC

The deadline for Sandy victims in New Jersey to apply for the Homeowner Resettlement Program is this Thursday, and Gov. Chris Christie said there is still money to distribute.

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