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After the Blackout, Gov. Cuomo tells WCBS’s John Metaxas, Con Ed “can be replaced.”

New Yorkers measure their lives by blackouts. I experienced my fourth* on Saturday July 13th, anchoring live coverage of the West Side Blackout on WCBS Newsradio 880. The evening brought me back to the 1965 blackout when I was 7 growing up in Manhattan, the 1977 blackout as a college student at Columbia during the…

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11-Year-Old Boy with Cancer Dreams of Becoming Oncologist

Since 1976, The Valerie Fund has helped provide comfort and healing for thousands of New Jersey children stricken with cancer and blood disorders, close to their homes. This Saturday, June 8th, the organization is holding its annual fundraising walk and 5K run in Verona Park. Every year for the past decade, WCBS has asked me…

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About John

John is an award-winning broadcast journalist with three decades of on-air experience at CBS, CNN, ABC and other networks. John is an attorney, admitted to the Bar in New York as well as the Southern and Eastern Districts. He served as chief corporate communications officer at E*TRADE, where he helped the company navigate 9-11, an…

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