Soterios Johnson

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Voters in Iowa make their picks for Republican and Democratic presidential candidates in caucuses tonight. The first official test in the 2008 presidential race is expected to be a close one.

WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein and Fred Mogul are in Des Moines and they join us now.

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We're now less than 2 months from Super Tuesday, when we may know the nominees for the presidency from each party. The candidates are raising and spending record sums, but the nation hasn't spent much on its election infrastructure.

When all the votes are cast next ...

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A lot of Yankees and Mets are named in Senator Mitchell's report on steroid use in baseball. Roger Clemens, Andy Pettite and Paul LoDuca all played in New York last season, but the report also names some who retired long ago.

Like Lenny Dykstra - he ...

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Mayor Bloomberg won't be in New York for today's snowstorm. Instead, he's half a world away in Bali, where the heat index is 96 degrees. Not a bad place to hold a conference on global warming.

But, what's the mayor of New York doing there? And ...

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New Jersey is on the verge of outlawing the death penalty. The state Senate passed its bill Monday and the Assembly is taking up the issue tomorrow. If the bill passes, New Jersey would become the first state in the nation to abolish capital punishment ...

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Republican presidential candidates met in Miami last night for the campaign's first Spanish language debate. Florida's Latino community could be pivotal in both the primary and general elections, and a recent Pew poll shows that group drifting from the GOP as it increases its anti-immigrant ...

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At an emotional press conference at City Hall yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg announced his deputy mayor who's been the architect for this administration's long-term vision for New York City is leaving.

Dan Doctoroff has overseen economic development during one of the city's biggest building booms. He's going ...

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"Hell Yes!" That's the message that blazes in rainbow stripes across the front of the spanking new New Museum which opens tomorrow on the Bowery. The building looks like a stack of 6 shimmering aluminum boxes, stacked on top of each other, slightly off-kilter, this ...

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For more now on the end of the Broadway stagehands strike, we're joined by Adam Feldman. He's a theater critic for Time Out New York and President of the New York Drama Critics Circle.

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Thirteen cities and states joined 4 environmental groups for the case against fuel economy standards. New York was one of those cities and Scott Pasternak is Senior Counsel for the environmental law division of the city's Law Department. He's been New York's lead attorney on ...

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Two plays are running off Broadway right now that address some heavy subjects. St. Ann's Warehouse presents Black Watch, which is based on interviews with Scottish soldiers that returned from the Iraq war, and Roundabout Theatre Company's The Overwhelming, deals with the horrors of the ...

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For the past week WNYC's Evening Music has featured special programming highlighting the musical and cultural life of Berlin. WNYC decided to explore why Berlin is such a thriving arts capital, and whether New York could learn anything from the city. We spoke with a ...

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The fall auction season got underway at Christie's last night with a bang -- a painting by Henri Matisse went for $33.6 million, breaking the previous auction record Matisse's work. The art market has been incredibly strong for a few years, with record breaking sales ...

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This is Morning Edition, I'm Soterios Johnson. The fall auction season got underway at Christie's last night with a bang - a painting by Matisse went for $33.6 million, breaking the previous auction record for Matisse's work. Here to discuss what more we can expect ...

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Wine said to belong to Thomas Jefferson is at the heart of a dispute that going through the courts and causing ripples in the wine industry. Years ago, American businessman Bill Koch paid $500,000 for four bottles that he thought were part of the collection ...

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It's been a volatile week on Wall Street. What will the ups-and-downs mean for New York's economy? Well, with us now to help answer that is Greg David. He's the editor of Crain's New York Business.

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New Jersey and the federal government have reached a deal that will allow the Garden State to trace illegal handguns.

The deal with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms comes the same month that three Newark college students were brutally murdered shot execution style. Joining ...

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We’ve gotten used to hearing about sky-high art prices and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing. At the end of last week, Sotheby’s auction house announced its mid year-sales figures and the numbers were high. Income for the first half of 2007 was a ...

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The New York International Fringe Festival is the largest multi-arts festival in the country. It kicks off on Friday, August 10 with one hundred ninety theater companies from around the country, offering over twelve hundred shows at twenty downtown theaters. Martin Denton is a theater ...

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After a week of behind-the-scenes meetings, 2 big deals broke through Albany yesterday - campaign finance reform and congestion pricing. Governor Eliot Spitzer joins us now to discuss the compromise deals.