(Bronx, NY) — With the recent announcement of Pfizer/BioNTech submitting trial data to the Food and Drug Administration for its vaccine to be used for children ages 5-11, Bronx public charter school leaders stressed the importance of vaccination for the Bronx […]

Cases of Interest for the Week of October 4, 2021 *Appearances/Proceedings May Be Virtual*     Monday, October 4, 2021 NO CASES OF INTEREST Check website for updates.   Tuesday, October 5, 2021 ADA Judge Part # Status Defendant Name Case […]

Mercy College News and Information October 2021 News Mercy Community Helps Mobilize Massive Effort to Support Afghan Refugees As soon Zenat Ishaq, M.P.A. ’22, heard the news about the refugee situation as the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, she jumped into […]

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Charlton Heston (1923?) An iconic Hollywood leading man and six-term president of the Screen Actors Guild, Heston distinguished himself as an actor playing larger-than-life heroes in films like The Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes, El Cid, and Ben-Hur. The strapping performer also used his sonorous voice to speak out against racism and other political issues of his day. A staunch opponent of gun control, he made what phrase famous at a 2000 National Rifle Association convention? More…

There is a good deal of satisfaction about being thoroughly miserable; but nobody likes a fit of the blues. Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

pusillanimous Definition: (adjective) Lacking courage; cowardly. Synonyms: spineless, craven Usage: Why, you pusillanimous piece of dirt, you’d run with your tail between your legs if I said boo! Discuss. bronx c

To The Editor: I would like to know what percentage of national Democrats have ever actually read Paul Krugman’s article in “The New York Times” which is titled “Bernie Sanders Isn’t A Socialist.” It can be found online. Of those […]

BRONX WOMAN INDICTED IN RENT SCAM THAT NETTED NEARLY $100,000 Defendant Allegedly Promised 16 People Rent-Stabilized Apartments, Likely Defrauded Dozens More, Preyed on Dominican Community           Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx woman has […]

Biographies Jacqueline McMickens Jacinth Fairweather-Panton Ann C. Northern, Of Counsel Phillip A. Solomon, Esq. Jacqueline McMickens Jacqueline McMickens is the founder of Jacqueline McMickens & Associates, PLLC, a full service practice specializing in matrimonial and family law, discrimination and civil […]

For Immediate Release: Sept. 22, 2021 Contact: Carl Ginsburg, carl.ginsburg@nysna.org NYSNA Decries Treatment of Haitian Asylum Seekers New York – For years, the media has reported on U.N. peacekeepers exploiting women and girls in Haiti, ultimately fathering and abandoning scores of children. That has added to […]

Bonnie Parker (1910) Bonnie Parker was the female half of the notorious Depression-era criminal duo “Bonnie and Clyde.” She met Clyde Barrow in 1930 and soon became his lover as well as his partner in crime. In 1932, the pair began a 21-month crime spree—ended when they were killed in a police ambush—that involved robberies, shootouts, and murders. Their activities were widely publicized, and they soon became America’s most famous and romanticized outlaws. Why did Clyde never make an honest woman of Bonnie? More…

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. Mark Twain (1835-1910)