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John Weingart is the associate director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University where he has worked since February 2000. He is also Chairman of the New Jersey Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council, and is the longtime producer and host of Music You Can't Hear On The Radio, a three-hour program of folk music and bluegrass broadcast over WPRB (103.3 FM) to central New Jersey, Bucks County and Philadelphia and broadcast worldwide at WPRB.com. The program, which airs on Sunday evenings from 7:00-10:00 p.m., has been described by The New York Times as, "some perfection aimed at people who like their folk music laced with rock-and-roll or march music or country or anything else that will create and maintain an appropriate theme." For more about the radio show, click on Veryseldom.com. Before coming to the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Weingart served in New Jersey state government for 23 years under two Democratic and two Republican governor. From 1975 to 1994, he was part of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection where he served as director of the Division of Coastal Resources before being appointed Assistant Commissioner for Environmental Regulation. In 1994, the New Jersey Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility Siting Board, with the approval of then-Governor Christine Todd Whitman, named him its second, and as it turned out, final executive director. Weingart is also the co-author, with Arthur E. Levine of Reform of Undergraduate Education, a book about changes in college curriculum that won the Book of the Year Award from the American Council on Education. He and his wife Deborah Spitalnik live in Stockton, New Jersey.

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