2014 PEACE PRIZE Awarded toCODEPINK The US Peace Memorial Foundation has awarded its 2014 Peace Prize to CODEPINK Women for Peace “In Recognition of Inspirational Antiwar Leadership and Creative Grassroots Activism.” Michael Knox, Chair of the Foundation, presented the award on Thursday, […]
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Attorney General Schneiderman’s 2012 settlement with J. Ezra Merkin, who invested over $2 billion with Bernard M. Madoff on behalf of hundreds of investors, may proceed. The decision affirms a 2013 […]
12 New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) Addiction Treatment Centers (ATCs) in communities across the State will offer training sessions on opioid overdose prevention. The Bronx site is the Bronx Psych campus. Participants will learn […]
Today, Congressman Joe Crowley (D-Queens, East Bronx), applauded the announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that the agency will include a sepsis reduction measure as part of its final rule concerning Medicare payments for 2015, and called for […]
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that he, along with 40 other state Attorneys General and the District of Columbia, reached a $35 million settlement with Pfizer arising from alleged improper marketing and promotion of the immunosuppressive drug Rapamune. […]
On Tuesday, the San Antonio Spurs announced that Becky Hammon, currently in her 16th WNBA season, has been hired as an assistant coach. Per club policy terms of the contract were not announced. She will make history as the first […]
Starting today, all businesses, organizations and residents with a physical address in New York City will have an equal opportunity to reserve a .nyc domain in advance of the official public launch on October 8. The 60-day “landrush” phase offers New […]
In this week’s address, the President discussed the new monthly jobs report and the fact that our economy created over 200,000 new jobs in July for the sixth straight month – the longest streak since 1997. To ensure this momentum […]
Yesterday, The Obama administration announced that five states—Delaware, Georgia, Minnesota, New York and South Carolina—have received a one-year extension for flexibility from certain provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), also known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). […]
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Commissioner Joseph Esposito today encouraged New Yorkers to take steps to ensure they are prepared, as the City heads into peak hurricane season (August – October). Mayor de Blasio and […]
This summer, President Barack Obama is traveling across the country to meet with everyday Americans who have written him about what’s going on in their lives. Ahead of the President’s trip to Kansas City this evening, White House Press Secretary […]
Negotiating a multicultural environment by using humor to bring people together? Sounds pretty Bronx to me, right folks?
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, filed a resolution with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to condemn the use of civilians as human shields by the terrorist group Hamas and support Israel’s right to self-defense. “The use of human shields by Hamas […]
On Tuesday, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced the guilty pleas of two individuals who were charged in connection with a cocaine pipeline allegedly operating between New York City and the Dutchess County town of Wappingers Falls, in a sting […]
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