Amy Eddings

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Mayor Bloomberg came to Brooklyn's New York City College of Technology campus to give his sixth State of the City address Wednesday. Bloomberg proposed one billion dollars' worth of tax cuts... and several initiatives to increase accountability in public education, the mayor's signature issue. But ...

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New Jersey has long struggled with political corruption, and former governor and State Senate president Richard Codey is offering a series of proposals to firm up legislative ethics. Some of his proposals include a ban on all gifts to legislators from lobbyists -- regardless of ...

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According to the Associated Press, State Comptroller Alan Hevesi will resign tomorrow to avoid an indictment for using state employees as drivers for his wife. If he does step down, in exchange for a lesser charge and no jail time, it would end the long ...

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Developer Bruce Ratner may not know until next year whether he's got the official go ahead to build his controversial basketball arena and high rise project in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

The last official hurdle is the state's Public Authorities Control Board, which is supposed to vote ...

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New Jersey Assembly members have approved a bill to create civil unions. The Senate is expected to follow suit later this evening. The votes come after the State’s highest court ruled the state must offer marriage or its equivalent to gay couples.

But the possibility of civil ...

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In a historic move, trans-fats got the heave-ho today at the city's Board of Health. Its members approved a ban on partially hydrogenated oils and shortenings in all the city's restaurants. Board members consider the ban a public health measure, to protect people from the ...

Landfills have always been a tough sell for sanitation officials and garbage companies. And a new survey of Americans’ attitudes toward development has found it’s getting even harder, not only for landfills, but for most development projects.

The second annual Saint Index, by the Saint Consulting Group, found landfills were opposed ...

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East Village residents get a chance tonight to hear the city's proposal to rezone their neighborhood for the first time since 1961. The changes were in the making in the last 20 years, as the neighborhood became gentrified, but the community's outrage was catalyzed by ...

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State Comptroller Alan Hevesi will likely face tough questions in tonight's election debate about his use of staff members to chauffeur his wife around town, and his failure to pay back the state for those services, actions that a state ethics panel says broke the ...

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Earlier this month, Scott Fappiano was released from prison, after DNA tests cleared him of a rape conviction that had put him behind bars for the last 21 years.

FAPPIANO: There was times I gave up hope, that I wasn’t gonna be exonerated. I never gave ...

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In the last month, two local men have returned home from long stints in prison, after DNA testing showed they were innocent. The exonerations have focused the public’s – and politicians’ – attention on wrongful convictions. In a three-part series, WNYC’s All Things Considered host, ...

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For the second time in a month, lawyers at the Innocence Project have helped get innocent people out of prison, through the use of post-conviction DNA tests. Such tests, used since the late 80s, provide scientific proof that our criminal justice system convicts and sentences ...

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A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association says women are twice as likely to develop lung cancer as men. But the findings also suggest that women are more likely than men to survive the disease.

WNYC’s All Things Considered host Amy Eddings discusses ...

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The sound of all those air conditioners humming on a humid day like today is a reminder that summer is the peak season for energy demand, and that demand in New York City is projected to exceed our power generating capacity in the next six ...

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The Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood of Red Hook is the talk of the town right now. Time Out New York featured its new restaurants, shops and art galleries in a recent issue. Fairway is doing brisk business in its brand new gourmet grocery store. And there’s ...

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At the final hearing on Mayor Bloomberg's 20 year trash plan, councilmembers pushed the administration for more recycling...while Manhattanites pushed the council to block two facilities in their borough. WNYC's Amy Eddings has more.

REPORTER: The council wants the Sanitation Department to create a ...

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Saturday is International Migratory Bird day, held annually on the second Saturday in May to celebrate, and support the conservation of birds like the Ruby Crowned Kinglet and the Virginia Rail. This year, to mark the day, the environmental advocacy group Natural Resources Defense Council ...

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You know that old line for gullible people, typically delivered after they fall for some outlandish joke, that you've also got a bridge to sell them? Well, state transportation officials would like to do just that: sell you the Tappan Zee Bridge, or the Triborough ...

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Junk bonds, mutual funds; there's always some new investemnt vechicle cropping up on Wall Street for investors to try to make money on. The next big thing, accprdomg to Aaron Elstein with Crains New York Business, is unwanted life insurance policies.

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THe city has released a draft blueprint for turning the Fresh Kills landfill into a park. WNYC's Amy Eddings reports.

After two years of public meetings, the Department of City Planning has put out its vision for the world's largest landfill: A North Park, with creeks ...