WNYC's The Early Word

It's the last Early Word for a while.  We're going on hiatus next week, so we can reboot and revamp the podcast...and bring you something even better in the new year.  Check the podcasts page at our web site for updates.  And if there's anything YOU'd like to hear in a new and improved Early Word, let us know!  Go to wnyc dot org and send us an email. Happy New Year!

Starting next week, the Early Word will be taking a hiatus, so we can reboot and revamp the podcast...and bring you something even better in the new year.  Check the podcasts page at our web site for updates.  And if there's anything YOU'd like to hear in a new and improved Early Word, let us know!  Go to wnyc dot org and send us an email.

Starting next week, the Early Word will be taking a hiatus, so we can reboot and revamp the podcast...and bring you something even better in the new year.  Check the podcasts page at our web site for updates.  And if there's anything YOU'd like to hear in a new and improved Early Word, let us know!  Go to wnyc dot org and send us an email.

This morning's Early Word: Af-Pak envoy Richard Holbrooke dead at 69; Beth Fertig on changes to NYC teacher tenure; Bloomberg budget cuts hit FDNY, CUNY; Ilya Marritz on Gov. Paterson's split-the-difference move on natural gas fracking.

This morning's Early Word: Senate GOP blocks Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal & 9/11 health bill; Marianne McCune on young immigrants awaiting a stalled immigration bill; Ilya Marritz on the final days of a NYC OTB parlor; a museum...for your nose.

This morning's Early Word: 9/11 health bill and others delayed in Senate; NYC teachers union fights release of teacher ratings; MTA says if unions don't budge, fares rise; Janaya Williams on the first major Pakistani-American theater company.

This morning's Early Word: Tom Delay convicted of money laundering; the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade kicks off; New Yorkers sound off on Black Friday shopping; Marianne McCune visits a modern-day rent party.

This morning's Early Word: panel votes down Bloomberg's pick for schools chief; Jim O'Grady has the lowdown on Thanksgiving travel in NYC; Cindy Rodriguez visits Riker's Island where inmates are making Thanksgiving food for the poor.

This morning's Early Word: political consultant pleads guilty in NY pension fund scandal; Indian land deal could bring casino to Catskills; NYC government may go locavore; Atlantic Yards, the musical.

This morning's Early Word: censure recommended for Rangel; NYC faces more budget cuts; Cuomo sues Bloomberg advisor and former car czar Rattner; Beth Fertig on the man who holds fate of proposed city schools chancellor in his hands; Guggenheim unveils new season.

This morning's Early Word: Gitmo detainee acquitted of most charges in NYC; ExxonMobil settles lawsuit over Greenpoint oil spill; Ilya Marritz on couriers adapting to leaner economic times; the Ginger Ninjas' human-powered stage hits Brooklyn.

This morning's Early Word: Rangel found guilty; NY pols push for 9/11 health bill; Merchant of Death arrives in NY; Bloomberg mulls extending subway to NJ; Beth Fertig on the latest skirmish over new city schools chancellor.

This morning's Early Word: Kathleen Horan reports from NYC's Veterans Day parade; Arun Venugopal finds out how many rabbis can fit in a room; the city's new schools chancellor hits some resistance.

This morning's Early Word: Veterans Day celebrated around the world; 8-month political standoff in Iraq tentatively resolved; NJ Transit gets huge bill for scrapped Hudson tunnel; Marianne McCune on New Yorkers using text messaging to assist election in Guinea.

This morning's Early Word: Obama's speech in his childhood home, Indonesia; NYC's new schools chief; Cuomo says no new taxes; Lisa Chow looks at the city's economy-defying hotel boom.

This morning's Early Word: Connecticut's gubernatorial race finally, definitively over; NYC pedestrians entering most dangerous time of year; the Buena Vista Social Club hits NYC, with Malian friends.

This morning's Early Word: Midterm election results galore!

This morning's Early Word: What New Yorkers can expect in the voting booth today; Azi Paybarah recaps the negative ad blitz of 2010; some Coney Island stalwarts shuttered.