New York City Fire Fatalities Rise 35% in 2017 While 2016 was the Big Apple’s safest year in terms of fire fatalities, 2017 experienced a 35% spike, increasing from 48 fire deaths to 73 in the year just concluded. The […]

Chairman Crowley Statement on Government Funding Bill (Washington, D.C.) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) issued the following statement on the government funding bill: “Republicans have proven time and time again that they cannot govern. President Trump and […]

Immediate Relief is Needed at the MTA Senator Jeff Klein has put forth a bold proposal to bring desperately needed relief to the crumbling and often times dangerous infrastructure of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the hardworking New Yorkers who […]

Fetter Definition: (verb) Restrain with fetters. Synonyms: Shackle Usage: My foes fettered me hand and foot and imprisoned me in a dank dungeon.

Rosa Parks (1913) An icon of the US civil rights movement, Parks is often portrayed as a tired, elderly African-American seamstress who was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, after deciding on the spur of the moment not to give up her […]

Have you ever had a difference with a dear friend? How his letters, written in the period of love and confidence, sicken and rebuke you! What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! […]

Chairman Crowley Statement on January Jobs Report (Queens, N.Y.) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) released the following statement on the January jobs report: “Despite the Potemkin landscape President Trump painted in his State of the Union, too […]

With $2.7-Million, Your New Year’s Resolutions Become Reality (Yonkers, NY) – Each New Year, people all over the world make promises to themselves to rejuvenate their lives, change bad habits, and better their quality of life. For some, it means […]

Relent Definition: (verb) Give in, as to influence or pressure. Synonyms: Soften, Yield Usage: At first she wouldn’t let them go to the cinema, but in the end she relented.

Antonio José de Sucre (1795) One of the most respected leaders of the Latin American wars for independence, Sucre was a close friend and chief lieutenant of Simón Bolívar. He was an able military leader, yet he was known for […]

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers, and of love for our posterity. John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)