Chairman Crowley Statement on CBO Score for Health Care Repeal Bill Rushed Forward by Senate Republicans (Washington, DC) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) issued the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office confirmed that millions would lose […]
“America runs on Bulova time.” That declaration was the entire audio portion of the first advertisement appearing on a commercial television station. The rather subdued ad was broadcast on New York station WBNT this month in 1941, the first […]
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Michael Jackson’s Spirit Still Lives In All of Us During National Nursing Home Week at the end of May, MJXpressions (a Michael Jackson Tribute Act) out of Matawan, NJ visited the Beth Abraham Center on Allerton Avenue and for the […]
Today, Americans will celebrate Independence Day. If current educational trends continue, few of the current generation in American schools may understand the significance of the date. The lack of knowledge in U.S. History has become so dire that even once-popular tourist […]
Art in the Park Returns by David Greene The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation has teamed up with UNIQLO Global for another year of Art in the Parks. Local artists were given grants to produce art in […]
Universal’s animated ‘Despicable Me 3’ from Illumination Entertainment tops the global box office chart taking in $171 million this weekend while enjoying its North American debut and a total to date of $192.3 million. Notably, Paramount’s ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ […]
US Census Bureau Chief Retires As his tenure at the U.S. Census Bureau came to an end, Director John H. Thompson wrote an agency blog piece recognizing “the hard work and notable achievements that Census Bureau employees have accomplished over the […]
Tuesday, July 4 Governor Andrew Cuomo is in the New York City area. 12:00 PM – Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers remarks and marches in the Travis 4th of July Parade on Staten Island. Public School 26 4108 Victory Boulevard, […]
By Rich Mancuso/Sports Editor These are the Yankees and they are accustomed to being represented in the MLB All-Star game. Next week the results of a good first half to the season and the rise of their youngsters will be […]
July 4th — Today is the signature American holiday, celebrating the date in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. Ours was the first successful colonial independence movement against a European power. From sea to […]
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908) Raised in California, Fisher moved to Dijon, France, after her first marriage. There, she was inspired by the gastronomist Brillat-Savarin, and her 1949 translation of his Physiology of Taste is considered a classic. She created […]
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Apposite Definition: (adjective) Strikingly appropriate and relevant. Synonyms: Apt, Pertinent Usage: The governor approached the warriors humbly and proclaimed their heroism loudly, flattering them with his well-timed and apposite compliments.
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