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Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney had breakfast with Mayor Michael Bloomberg earlier this week in Manhattan. President Obama had lunch with the mayor at the White House a few weeks ago. The obvious agenda: both the president and his challenger want Bloomberg’s endorsement. I spoke with Lois Romano, who writes for Politico, about the candidates’ [...]

Strong storms this winter have taken their toll on East Hampton’s Georgica Beach, eroding it to roughly half its normal, summertime size. Town officials say the remaining land is not big enough for the hundreds of beachgoers who normally flock there during the high season. But the town is also concerned that cars and people [...]

HOST INTRO: Now we go to New York City’s waterways, where untreated overflow from the sewers is a major contributor of pollution. Heavy rainfall can overload the sewage treatment plants, and the untreated excess is rerouted into rivers. But a new survey of the soil in the five boroughs has information that could help remedy [...]

HOST INTRO: If you’re a New Yorker, and you like oysters, clams and scallops the freshest you can get come from the waters around Long Island. These shellfish pump water through their bodies to breathe and eat. And if you eat them, you also get any toxins that stay behind. That’s why shellfishing is monitored [...]

HOST INTRO: The Bronx Hunts Point Terminal Market is a 113-acre wholesale hub that has been selling produce to the New York City’s bodegas, restaurants, grocery stores and schools for the last 45 years. Right now, it is in deep negotiations with the city about how to pay for much needed renovations. Environmental advocates and some city [...]

Adults don’t know everything – it’s a tough lesson we learn when we’re young. For commentator Paul Smith, this realization came at a perilous moment.

A week of diplomatic turmoil has appeared to culminate in a deal to bring blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng to the U.S. as a study abroad fellow. All week long, an economic summit in China featuring U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has been overshadowed by the controversy. Today, [...]

HOST INTRO: A lawsuit increasing the availability of Plan B will go forward. A federal judge has denied the federal government’s request to dismiss the suit. Annie Russell reports the latest in a 7-year saga over limits on the controversial drug. Annie Russell: The Center for Reproductive Rights filed suit to increase availability of the [...]

Host Intro: The unemployment rate is still up at 8.1 percent, but the Radio City Rockettes are hiring this week. Callbacks are today, so if you haven’t made the cut, yet, there’s always next year. Acacia Squires reports from Rockefeller Center. Hundreds of young women in leotards all colors of the rainbow line up around [...]

The New York Knicks haven’t won a post-season game since 2001 and they are not doing any better this year. They are losing the series 3-0 against the Miami Heat. Ben Osborne is the editor in chief of the basketball monthly, SLAM Magazine. He told me the Knicks don’t stand a chance. And forward center [...]

On Sunday, 32,000 cyclists will pedal through New York City in the annual TD Five-Boro Bike Tour. The 40-mile ride is the largest urban bike tour in the country. The Staten Island-bound lanes of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge will be closed until 6pm and parts of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Belt Parkway will also shut [...]

You can take the boy off the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the boy. Commentator Andrew Parsons grew up on one and wonders if it was ever in him to begin with. HOST INTRO: You can take the boy off the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the [...]

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