NewsWorks Tonight October 4, 2017
Listen 0:00Bridgeton, New Jersey police respond to rising crime with a mobile police precinct. Tomorrow, the New Jersey Senate’s oversight committee will hold a hearing on the state’s Board of Nursing as some lawmakers and advocates say the board is improperly funded and under-staffed to the point of “crisis.” NJ Spotlight’s John Mooney discusses the future of standardized testing in New Jersey. A social media posting of the Sixers’ Joel Embiid jogging through Center City goes viral. Howard Shapiro review’s People’s Light and Theater’s production of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” And we talk with Mark Christman, the director of Ars Nova, and musician John Colpitts on the eve of the October Revolution Festival.
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