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George Bodarky is the News and Public Affairs Director at WFUV FM, an NPR affiliate station, based on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University in the Bronx. George is the current President of Public Radio News Directors, Inc. and the Past President of the New York State Associated Press Board of Directors. He is an award-winning journalist who trains undergraduate and graduate students at Fordham University in multi-platform journalism. George is widely known for his vocal coaching and journa…

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Want to know what’s on voters’ minds? Spend months at the laundromat.

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By George Bodarky, Jodi Malarbe
| Gothamist Verified
Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s election, Burt Nance, 52, of Paterson, New Jersey is holding out hope for the future. “I pray that we can be unified, and I pray that it doesn't take a catastrophe to happen for us to become unified,” Nance said at Bubbles aRe US laundromat in Paterson as early voting got underway on Saturday, Oct. 26.
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We visited 8 laundromats to talk about voting and elections. Here's what people had to say.

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By Jodi Malarbe, George Bodarky
| Gothamist Verified
As 32-year-old Elena Kendall of Beacon, New York, looks to plan her future, the environment weighs heavily on her mind. “Just thinking about wanting to have kids, not feeling like it's the right choice because I don't want to bring kids at this point in time to a planet that I don't know that they would enjoy living in," she says. Kendall is one of several people who have shared their perspectives as part of WNYC’s Suds and Civics initiative.
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What to read this Black History Month: 5 Black-owned bookstore owners share their recommendations

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By Jodi Malarbe, George Bodarky
| Gothamist Verified
The country's first Black-owned bookstore was established nearly 200 years ago in Manhattan and served as a space for African Americans who were denied access to the city's public libraries. It was founded at 1 Cortlandt St. in 1834 by David Ruggles, a Black abolitionist, writer and publisher who played a lead role in the early network that would become the Underground Railroad.
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