The Caucus Educational Corporation (CEC) is the non-profit educational television production company that creates regional public affairs programming for some of the country’s most-watched PBS stations (THIRTEEN, WHYY, WLIW, NJTV), as well as various other public television and cable outlets. Our widely-viewed and enduring series include Caucus: New Jersey, One-on-One, On the Line, and New Jersey Capitol Report.

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Great Leaders Never Abandon the Ship
There are many leadership lessons we can learn from the Costa Concordia disaster. There are questions of preparation as well as how to handle a crisis in a calm, composed and coordinated fashion. But the biggest lesson in leadership is the most obvious one; that a captain—in this case Captain Francesco Schettino—should never abandon his ship.
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Marriage Equality Now
This could be the opportunity of a lifetime, not just for same sex couples, but for all citizens of New Jersey who believe in the civil rights of every individual regardless of race, color, religion or sexual orientation. I don't care whether you call it gay marriage, same sex marriage, or marriage equality; there is good reason to believe that both houses of the state legislature are on the cusp of passing legislation that would have New Jersey become the 7th state to legalize marriage between two men or two women.