Average retail gasoline prices in New York have fallen 5.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.72/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 6,118 gas outlets in New York. This compares with the national average that has fallen 8.0 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.25/g, according to gasoline price […]
The College Sports Notebook is compiled by veteran sports writer and columnist Marc Maturo, a lifetime member of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA). The notebook will be published every Thursday. Please send items of interest toย marcmaturo@aol.com. Kurisko, Hawks soar into the holiday break All I want for Christmas is a ticket to the […]
BY HARRY WAITZMAN Papa loved Thom McAn shoes so much, he bought seven pairs at a time, carried them home and laid them out on the dining room table for all to admire, shining black and brown, no scuff marks, tongues hanging out clean, no stinky foot smell, soles unmarked. His mother had seven children […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Pastor Tyce Martin studied for the ministry online through Concordia Seminary of St. Louis, Missouri and was ordained last May at West Point, where he had served 23 years as a trombonist in the Military Academy’s marching and concert bands. Tyce brought his ministry and music to the Atonement Lutheran Church […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE In his latest effort, writer and director Samuel Harps takes on the greatest story of all-time and it is a work of art. While we all struggle to keep the spirit of Christmas in the wake of the terrible massacre of children and women teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, Harps “The Present,” […]
Tea Party Republican Tim Scott is first black senator from Dixie since Reconstruction-era; historic story muted by agenda-driven media This week saw the appointment of Congressman Tim Scott to the vacant U.S. Senate position in South Carolina, left by the departure of conservative Republican Jim DeMint, who took a job leading the Heritage Foundation think […]