Critical Mass Riders Win Lawsuit Against the City

Bicyclists who were wrongfully detained and arrested while participating in "Critical Mass" rides won a $965,000 lawsuit against the city.

WNYC-- NYC Moynihan Station On Track

Public officials took sledge hammers to a ceremonial brick wall in front of the Farley Post Office Monday afternoon. The groundbreaking is for the first phase of Moynihan Station, which will be constructed under the post office steps facing Eighth Avenue.

WNYC Bronx Gay Attack Story

I collected the sound bites for this story.

Longshoremen Charged with Drug Trafficking and investor Fraud

Federal prosecutors are charging nine longshoremen from the Port of New York and New Jersey, and thirteen others, with trafficking drugs and defrauding investors.

Voting Story on WNYC

The New York City Board of Elections felt the heat from City Council at a hearing Monday over primary day voting problems. A representative of the board said it would use what it learned to improve the voting experience for the November 2 election.

My first byline. yippee

Wisdom on the Leonard Lopate Show

Stephen S. Hall explores the history of wisdom and its journey from philosophy to science. He looks at how wisdom became one of our most cherished ideals, and at the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of it. In Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience he reveals how wisdom became the provenance of philosophy and religion, how it has been a catalyst for social change, and how, in the last fifty years, psychologists, economists, and neuroscientists have begun to shed light on the biology wisdom.

Upstate Gas Drilling on the Leonard Lopate Show

We’ll look into the controversy over drilling for natural gas in Marcellus shale in Upstate New York, and discuss the challenges landowners face when deciding whether to lease their land to gas companies, the role of landowners coalitions, and how public officials are managing the drilling already occurring in their towns. We’ll speak with Mark Dunau, organic farmer from Delaware County; Jim Bays, Supervisor of the Town of Smyrna, in Chenango County; and Abby Tamber, steering committee member of the Central New York Landowners Coalition.

NEW Gas Drilling Podcast

This a piece I did for WBAI Evening News on gas drilling debate up-state.