Monday, December 22, 2014. Three days before Christmas, four days before Kwanzaa begins, and the sixth day of Hanukkah. The calendar says this is a time of merriment and happy anticipation, but in New York...
Last month, Donald Trump was dealt a significant blow when New York Supreme Court Judge Saliann Scarpulla ordered he pay two million dollars to settle a claim he used his theoretically eleemosynary Donald J. Trump Foundation as a...
Earlier today, Michelle Obama delivered her final commencement speech as First Lady at New York’s City College, and it was terrific!
City College of New York was founded in 1847 and has long prided itself on...
How would you like to wake up one morning to the following headline: "Donald Trump Indicted for Criminal Racketeering"?
Well, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, that headline may be breaking soon.
In an interview...
New York Republican Congressman Chris Collins was a guest on the CNN town hall show The Messy Truth on Thursday evening, and one of his own constituents criticized Collins for not holding town hall meetings...
As I mentioned on Saturday, Congressman Michael Grimm, the only Republican representing a significant portion portion of New York City in the House, learned late Friday he was about to be indicted on federal criminal...
The pastor of a church in New York City thought it would be a good idea to hurl racist and homophobic slurs at protesters who showed up outside his church on Monday.
About 100 people showed...
New Yorkers, there is now officially a Republican challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
State Assembly Minority Leader since 2009, Brian Kolb (R-Canandaigua) announced last Tuesday he will be taking on the current two-term Democratic leadership.
Kolb told...
A month ago, as New York became the national coronavirus/COVID-19 epicenter, many were hailing Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a hero.
Looking and sounding far more of a leader at his daily press briefings than Donald Trump,...
A Brooklyn man is being charged with a hate crime for using a racial slur against a Nigerian Catholic priest and then threatening him with a baseball bat. Joseph Mattarelliano, 25, approached Reverend Uriroghene Okrokoto,...
We will probably have universal healthcare in this country within our lifetimes.
If you're a New York City resident, though, you needn't wait any longer.
Although not the single-payer model most Democrats in Washington favor, NYC Mayor...
We've seen some, shall we say, creative attempts to revise history from the Trump camp. But easily the most embarrassing attempt to date has to come from Rudy Giuliani. The man who was the most...
Last week, New York became the first state to institute a tuition-free college plan since state schools nationwide ended the practice in the 1960s.
Now, a mere two signatures are all that's required to cause New Yorkers to stand up...
Today is the New York primary. Donald Trump, who is from New York City, had a massive slip-up during one of his speeches. He made the epic mistake of referring to 9/11 as 7-11.
Seriously, Trump? One has slushies, the...
As musician Bob Dylan sang in 1964, "The times they are a-changing."
In January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported union membership in the United States in 2021 at 10.3 percent while the number of unionized...
When three of the women who claim Donald Trump sexually assaulted them went on a media blitz on Monday, it was hard not to get the sense that it was merely a prelude. As it...
This past Friday, Brooklyn's Adam Yauch Park was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. The park, which features a playground and basketball courts, was named in honor of the late Adam "MCA" Yauch, a musician, rapper, and...
From PIX11:
Police officers turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio as he walked into the police press conference about the two NYPD officers shot and killed execution-style in Brooklyn.
De Blasio weaved through the officers...
On Thursday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Catholic church announced that the Archdiocese of New York would be creating a compensation program for people who were abused by Catholic clergymen.
There are currently 170 victims of...
On Saturday December 13th, a mass?of people came out to voice their anger against police violence in the Millions March. With the no true bill announcements in both the choke hold death of Eric Garner...
