Bob Hennelly

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In New Jersey, there are two hotly contested battles for open house seats. WNYC's Bob Hennelly is with us now to preview them.

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Today New Yorkers have one more chance to sound off about the City Council's vote to overturn the term limits law. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

REPORTER: Before Mayor Bloomberg signs the term limit extension measure into law he will get to hear directly from the ...

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A rising number of foreclosures and the global credit crisis are taking a toll on New York City's residential market, which was long considered bullet-proof. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more:

REPORTER: On average each day 50 new foreclosures are filed Citywide. The hardest hit neighbourhoods include ...

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New York City inspectors are re-checking scores of buildings now that a Manhattan grand jury has indicted employees from one of the region's biggest concrete testing companies. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

The indictment charges that the Testwell Group faked tests on the quality and strength ...

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Buildings inspectors are testing the concrete of scores of new buildings in all five boroughs, after a Manhattan grand jury indicted one of the region's biggest concrete testing companies for falsifying test results.

Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn's agency worked with Manhattan District Attorney ...

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Officials in New Jersey say they're ready to handle what's expected to be record-high voter turnout next week. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has this update.

REPORTER: County election officials reported a record-setting quarter of million absentee ballot requests from voters, like 45-year-old John Luchese. He voted early ...

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Governor Paterson says a deepening recession means that he and the state legislature have to find another $2 billion in cuts for the current budget year, and another $45 billion in cuts through 2012. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

REPORTER: Governor Paterson says the global crisis ...

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Governor David Paterson took to a podium at his Midtown Manhattan office and offered a grim prognosis for New York State's economic health. His midyear assessment finds that Wall Street revenues have fallen so low, the state's current budget is now in the red by ...

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Today is the last day for New Jersey residents to apply by mail to get an absentee ballot for next month's election. As WNYC's Bob Hennelly reports, election officials are already swamped by absentee ballots.

REPORTER: This is the first Presidential election in which New Jerseyans ...

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Governor David Paterson took to a podium at his Midtown Manhattan office and offered a grim prognosis for New York State's economic health. His midyear assessment finds that Wall Street revenues have fallen so low, the state's current budget is now in the red by ...

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Bob, a very close vote. More than 10 Councilmembers waited until the last minute to declare their position. Upper West Side councilwoman Gail Brewer was one of them. She voted no, saying that, while she agreed with the mayor's bill, she doesn't like the way ...

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Later today the full City Council will take up Mayor Bloomberg's controversial bill to extend term limits from two terms to three. A judge declined to stop the vote yesterday. With us now to preview today's City Hall action is WNYC's Bob Hennelly.

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Even though a formal date has not been set for the final City Council vote on Mayor Bloomberg's bill to extend term limits, the battle over the measure continues to intensify. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has this update.

REPORTER: Queens councilman and state senate candidate Hiram Monserrate ...

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The city council will vote on term limits on Thursday.

Speaker Christine Quinn placed it on the calendar, even as the momentum in the council appears to be shifting against Mayor Bloomberg's bill to change term limits so he can run for a third term next ...

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For weeks now the debate over Mayor Bloomberg's Council bill to overturn term limits has been dominated by politicians and wealthy power brokers. Today it's the public's turn. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

The term limits bill, and the alternatives under review, fall under the jurisdiction ...

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There are hundreds of New Yorkers at City Hall waiting to weigh in on Mayor Michael Bloomberg's bill to repeal term limits. WNYC's Bob Hennelly is there.

Today's hearing was supposed to be reserved for the general public to voice their opinion on term limits. But ...

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Whether or not to extend term limits will come down to a few votes in the City Council. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more on efforts to sway the undecided council members.

REPORTER: Opponents of the mayor's term limit repeal say they now have 19 members rejecting ...

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Mayor Bloomberg is attempting to distance himself from the effort he set in motion to repeal term limits through the City Council. When asked directly by reporters when he first came to the decision to try and override the term limits twice endorsed by voters, ...

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At first the conventional wisdom was that an unusually popular second-term mayor would have no trouble getting 26 City Council members to go along with his plan to upend term limits.

But now it appears a much broader war has been joined, with battle lines up ...

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The battle over Mayor Bloomberg's third-term gambit has now gone statewide. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has this update.

REPORTER: The conventional wisdom was that an unusually popular second-term mayor would have no trouble getting 26 City Council members to go along with his plan to upend term ...