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Mona Hanna-Attisha

...there was a similar water crisis in Newark , New Jersey. And our kids, our Flin...
...[videoconferencing] in with kids in Newark , New Jersey, and telling them how t...

Jane Lute

...be an American. And look, I was born in Newark , New Jersey. People where I come fro...

Anne-Marie Slaughter

...Again, airports, right? I would leave Newark or Reagan and I would land in ...

Shailagh Murray

...up [Interstate] 95 from Baltimore and Newark and Trenton. These places that are—no...

Diane Johnson

...of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] Newark field office during the years tha...
...also served as chief of staff to acting Newark mayor, Luis Quintana, regional directo...
...am sitting in the heart of the city of Newark , in the state of New Jersey, in th...
...for that. May I ask you, are you from Newark originally? I am not from Newark. ...
...from Newark originally? I am not from Newark . I am from the sister city of Jerse...

...I was working for the archdiocese of Newark . And in working with the archdioces...
...And in working with the archdiocese of Newark , they went into a housing program...
...after the 1967 riots in the city of Newark . They developed rehab, seventy-seve...
...them the desperate need in the city of Newark and Elizabeth and Paterson. We hav...
...the state of New Jersey, not just Newark . Throughout the state. Right...
...them to demolish. In the city of Newark we demolished all famil...
...think the Hope VI program did that. In Newark , not only were we able to just d...
...look down to the downtown city hall in Newark and see nothing but a row of concrete...
...be demolished. And so, if you come into Newark now, the high-rises where families use...
...if you drive through the city of Newark , you'll see a church on every othe...
...organizations in the city of Newark , as well as other parts of the state...
...official, when you started to run the Newark field office, how did you balanc...
...that position after so many decades in Newark ? It was right after Katrina. Ther...
...to know how I was able to run the Newark office as well as be in New Orleans. W...
...parts of how you approached your job in Newark ? Oh, absolutely, because we tried t...
...and whether you have memories in Newark of that funding from the governmen...
...of 2009 Secretary Donovan visited Newark . I wanted to ask for your memories o...
...interact with people on the ground in Newark , what he was curious about, in term...
...curious about, in terms of housing in Newark . I didn't learn anything new...
...would come to an urban community like Newark , and interacting and not being afrai...
...he spoke to the communities both in Newark and in New Orleans. I really didn't se...
...accepted by 2010? Oh, yes. In 2010, Newark was able to start—the monies wer...
...involved in the daily decisions at the Newark field office, involved in mortgage an...
...never going to work. In the city of Newark , we have homeless individuals tha...
...really wanted to move. In the city of Newark at Penn Station, there's a group o...
...obstacles in shifting how a place like Newark deals with homelessness? I don'...
...homelessness? I don't think it's just Newark . I think it's a national problem...
...first place. Yes. You directed the Newark field office, of course. When a progra...
...everyone under our jurisdiction—the Newark office—in all 565 municipalities an...
... Secretary Donovan, of course, came to Newark in November of 2012, shortly after th...
...to Paterson, sure, I could take you to Newark . And walk you block by block, and sho...
...you served as chief of staff under Newark Acting Mayor Luis Quintana. From tha...
...Oh, absolutely not. Remember now, Newark received a lot of federal HUD money...
...done a lot of monitoring of the city of Newark over the years. And so, what I got t...
...in, because, like I said, we monitored Newark daily. Did you work on many issue...
...and colleges in the city of Newark . We're on fifteen acres of the Centra...

Charles Kupchan

...home from Israel, and my flight got to Newark , if I remember correctly, at 4:00 a.m...

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