Media Advisory:  Bronx Merchants Unite to Emphasize Need for Rent Relief in State Budget Small Businesses and Their Allies Call for Commercial Rent Relief   Fordham, Bronx, N.Y. – On Thursday, March 25, 2021, small businesses from the Burnside Jerome Tremont […]

100 PERCENT Predictions for the 11th and 15th City Council Special Election By Robert Press The explanation of Rank Choice Voting by the NYC Board of Elections. Everyone is waiting for my predictions in the 11th and 15th special elections […]

Senators Biaggi and Rivera Endorse Candidate Mino Lora, While Denouncing Outside Money in Bronx City Council Races By Robert Press In front of the famous Norwood mural (L-R) State Senators Biaggi and Rivera, with City Council candidate Mino Lora. What […]

Olive Schreiner (1855) Schreiner was a South African author and feminist. Though she had no formal education, she read widely and developed a keen intellect and militantly feminist and liberal views. In 1883, she published her famed semiautobiographical novel, The Story of an African Farm, about a girl who lives on an isolated farm and struggles to attain independence in the face of rigid Boer social conventions. Under what pseudonym did Schreiner publish this text, arguably the first great South African novel? More…

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

jollity Definition: (noun) A jolly or merry mood, condition, or activity; gaiety. Synonyms: joviality Usage: The genial festival of Christmas … lights up the fireside of home with mirth and jollity. Discuss.

Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment Encourages New Yorkers to Register for Free “New York Music Month Talks”    NEW YORK – The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) announces that registration is currently available for several upcoming NYMM Talks. One of […]

What is going on at the Board of Elections? Bronx Special Elections 2021.Part 3 Bronx Science High School Poll Site By Robert Press Friday March 19th the door to the Bronx Science poll site was open. In the early voting […]

Mayoral Candidate Ray McGuire Tours White Plains Road With Councilman Kevin Riley  On Saturday Mayoral candidate Ray McGuire made three stops in the Bronx. In the morning Ray visited Throggs Neck where he was joined by District Leader John  Doyle. […]

Emmy Noether (1882) After Noether died, Albert Einstein wrote in a letter to The New York Times that she was “the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.” Her contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics were groundbreaking, evidenced by the inclusion of her name in several concepts, including “Noether’s Theorem,” “Noetherian module,” “Noetherian ring,” and “Noetherian induction.” Where were her ashes buried? More…

I shall be like that tree,—I shall die at the top. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

tuffet Definition: (noun) A low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person. Synonyms: footrest, footstool, ottoman Usage: He reclined in his chair with a contented sigh and put his feet up on the nearest tuffet. Discuss.

What is going on at the Board of Elections? Bronx Special Elections 2021. Part 2 Bronx Science High School Early Voting Poll Site Bu Robert Press This is the entrance to the Bronx Science High School early voting poll site. […]

Burrhus Frederic “B.F.” Skinner (1904) Forgoing his early goal of being a writer, Skinner earned his doctorate in psychology at Harvard, where he later spent much of his teaching career. A leading exponent of the behavioral approach to psychology, Skinner maintained that learning occurs as a result of an organism responding to, or operating on, its environment, a phenomenon he called operant conditioning. Skinner did extensive research with animals and, during WWII, worked for the US government training what animal to guide missiles? More…