Why Hoboken is Throwing Away All of its Student Laptops
Inside Hoboken’s combined junior-senior high school is a storage closet. Behind the locked door, some mothballed laptop computers are strewn among brown cardboard boxes. Others are stacked one atop...
View ArticleCitibike to Expand to Jersey City as Hoboken's Bike Share Goes it Alone
Walk the green waterfront oasis of Jersey City’s Liberty State Park on a summer evening and you’ll find it teeming with bicyclists. Cycling has surged in Jersey City since Mayor Steven Fulop took...
View ArticleWho Will Address Income Inequality; How Much is Too Much Stress for a High...
Coming up on today's show:In our ongoing series of debates between Bernie Sanders supporters and Hillary Clinton supporters, two New Jersey Democrats debate who would be better at addressing income...
View ArticleThe Plan to Build a Wall in Hoboken
A controversial plan to build a wall has been met with outrage.No, not that wall. The city of Hoboken has been looking for a solution to prevent floods, like when the Hudson River poured into the city...
View ArticleTrain Crash in Hoboken Leads to Questions About Safety
One woman died and 108 people were injured when a rush-hour NJ Transit train crashed at Hoboken Terminal on Thursday morning. The wreck renewed questions about whether long-delayed automated safety...
View ArticleNew Jersey commuter train crash kills 1, injures 108 in Hoboken
Watch New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo discuss the Hoboken train crashA train engineer is in critical condition, following a crash at a commuter station in Hoboken, New...
View ArticleNew Jersey Train Crash Kills at Least One, Leaves 100 Wounded
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.A devastating train accident took place during the morning rush hour commute in the city of Hoboken, New Jersey on Thursday. More than 100...
View ArticleInvestigators delve into mystery of Hoboken’s rush hour train crash
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Investigators in Northern New Jersey have a big question to ponder tonight: Why did a commuter train smash into a station in the midst of rush...
View ArticleNews Wrap: Alabama chief justice suspended for preventing same-sex marriage...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: In the day’s other news: A disciplinary court in Alabama suspended Chief Justice Roy Moore over gay marriage. The panel found he encouraged probate...
View ArticleEvent Recorders from Hoboken Train Crash Sent for Analysis
A National Transportation Safety Board lab in Washington, D.C. is now analyzing both event recorders and a cell phone belonging to the engineer from the fatal train crash at Hoboken Terminal.The cell...
View ArticleNews Wrap: Syrian, Russian forces scales back airstrikes in Aleppo
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: In the day’s other news: Syria’s military and its Russian allies scaled back airstrikes on Aleppo, but President Bashar al-Assad vowed to recapture all...
View ArticleFederal Agencies Back Off Sleep Apnea Screening Rules, But Local Transit...
In an effort to slash regulations, the Trump administration will no longer pursue a requirement that truck drivers and train engineers be screened for sleep apnea. But the disorder was blamed for the...
View ArticleNJ Transit Alters Schedules For Required Safety Work
Starting June 4, NJ Transit will alter weekday schedules, canceling some trains altogether, so that the agency can install Positive Train Control (PTC) equipment on its trains. The schedule changes...
View ArticlePlenty of Finger Pointing in Hoboken, But No Immediate Solution for Water...
After 14 water main breaks in 64 days, the city of Hoboken and its water company are pointing fingers.On Tuesday, mayor Ravi Bhalla announced the city would start looking for a new utility to run its...
View Article'The Untold Life of Peter Lee'
Author Holly Metz joins us to discuss her new book, The Untold Life of Peter Lee. This segment is guest-hosted by Jenna Flanagan.
View ArticleTraffic Safety: Who's Doing Vision Zero Right?
Despite a rise in traffic deaths and pedestrian fatalities nationally, Jersey City hasn't had a traffic death so far this year. Hoboken hasn't had one in four years. Angie Schmitt, writer, planning...
View ArticleTraffic Safety Successes; Call Your Senator: Sen. Gillibrand; Walking with...
Coming up on today's show:Angie Schmitt, writer, planning consultant and author of Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Island Press, 2020), explains how...
View ArticleVision Zero: how did Hoboken do it?
The New Jersey city of Hoboken can boast a major accomplishment; they were the first U.S city to achieve Vision Zero. That means they've made enough improvements to the roadway system that in 2018,...
View ArticleJune 4, 2024: Midday News
A 19-year-old man is still awaiting official charges for allegedly shooting two police officers in Queens on Monday. WNYC’s Brittany Kriegstein spoke to his mother in Colombia. Meanwhile, Senator Bob...
View ArticleNovember 6, 2024: Midday News
Hoboken voters rejected a ballot measure to make it easier for landlords to convert rent-controlled apartments to market rate units. Meanwhile, New York State high schools may no longer require...
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