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JOHN WEINGART John Weingart is the associate director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. He also serves as Chair of New Jersey'sHighlands Water Protection and Planning Council. Before coming to Eagleton, John worked in New Jersey state government, focusing on environmental and land use issues, during the administrations of two Democratic and two Republican governors. His posts included serving as Director of the Division of Coastal Resources and Assistant Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, and Executive Director of the state's Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility Siting Board. His publications include the Eagleton Institute study, "Another Government Success Story: Citizen Volunteers on New Jersey State Boards and Commissions;" and the books, Waste Is A Terrible Thing To Mind: Risk, Radiation, and Distrust of Government (described at www.WasteIsATerribleThingToMind.com , and Reform of Undergraduate Education (written with Arthur E. Levine) which was named "Book of the Year" by the American Council on Education. On Sunday nights, John hosts Music You Can't Hear On The Radio, New Jersey's longest-running folk music and bluegrass radio show, on WPRB-FM and WPRB.com (described at www.veryseldom.com). He holds a B.A. in Sociology from Brandeis University and a Master's in Public Affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, and was also in the Leadership New Jersey class of 1989. John and his wife, Deborah Spitalnik, live in Hunterdon County.
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