Nancy Solomon

New York, NY —

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 ...

New York, NY —

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 ...

New York, NY —

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. ...

Scarsdale, NY —

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, ...