NYC-tabloid Daily News chose to play up an embarrassing email conveniently omitted from the state Senate’s Ethics Committee investigation into Vito Lopez, which seemed to suggest Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver not only had worked against a full investigation of Lopez’s misbehavior, but also had a flirtatious relationship of his own with his top aide. In […]
By The Spectator, John Maloney The school year is winding down. Have you even looked back on your education; elementary school, high school, college perhaps. Maybe you have a Master’s Degree hanging on the wall somewhere! Did you ever stop to think about the tremendous amount of knowledge that you acquired during those school years? […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Jakub Spisak, a foreign exchange student at Ramapo High School, won for best Acting Performance in the Metropolitan High School Theatre Awards ceremony given out at the Paramount Hudson Valley Theatre In Peekskill Monday. Gregory DeCola, who played Herbert Parchester in Tappan Zee High School’s “Me and My Girl,” and Eileen […]
Bill advances to increase teen pre-enrollment The Democratic Party continues to be successful nationwide and in New York with efforts to change electoral laws so that enrollment and voter participating by sympathetic demographics increase. Republicans have failed to keep pace with their liberal counterparts on these vote-positive efforts, such as by passing laws to encourage […]
Review of “Fast and Furious” By Vincent Abbatecola Generally, most of the franchises that get sequels are either superhero adventures or the latest horror story that receives a new installment every Halloween. When director Rob Cohen’s “The Fast and the Furious” was released in June 2001, it was hard to believe that a movie about […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – The County Legislature unanimously passed a resolution on June 4 barring the processing and use of wastewater produced by hydrofracking within the county. The passage elicited strong support from attendant environmental activists and organizations, who spoke in favor of the law in a public hearing prior to the vote. […]