UNEMPLOYMENT HELP FROM CITY HALL Profile America — A severe economic panic, striking in 1893, led the city of Seattle to create the nation’s first municipal unemployment assistance office on this date in 1894. State and federal unemployment assistance wasn’t […]
MANDATORY VACCINATIONS Profile America — Seemingly out of nowhere, the issue of mandatory vaccinations has been in the news in recent years. But governmental involvement in vaccination has a long pedigree, tracing back to this date in 1810. That’s […]
Dear Editor: One notable omission in David Lesch’s recent column (RENOVATING? HOMEOWNERS MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR INJURED WORKERS, 2/21/16) is that New York is the only state in the nation where you, as a homeowner may be held liable for […]
FROM THE NATURAL TO THE SPIRITUAL By Rev. J. Loren Russell, BA, MDiv Scripture (John 4:3 – 14 CEV): “Jesus left Judea and started for Galilee again. 4 This time he had to go through Samaria, 5 and on his way he […]
JEANNETTE RANKIN Profile America — The first woman to serve in Congress took her seat on this date in 1917. Barely a month later, Jeannette Rankin of Montana shortly became one of the few representatives to vote against entry into […]
Financial Focus: Should you be thinking about moving to a lower “tax” State? by Anthony Rivieccio, MBA, PFA During this time of the year (tax preparation) many people again realize that New Yorkers are the highest taxed individuals in State and nation. […]
CHILD LABOR Profile America — Children have worked for family enterprises like farms and small shops for countless generations. But child labor in mines and the often-dangerous factories arising from the Industrial Revolution was quickly regarded as a social ill. […]
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW By Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz I Believe Jesse Jackson Won’t Mind You should know that on February 29, 2016, while I was flipping through television stations, I came across a story on “Fox News Insider” announcing […]
The Art of the Deal! By Dennis A Conforto I have been thinking lately about Donald Trump and the Art of the Deal. In following his campaign for President, it has become apparent that he really does understand and […]
Help the world’s 35% of women stand up, #EndDV Look at women around you – your dear family members, friends, coworkers and schoolmates, some of them are struggling to survive physical abuse and cruelty from their partners and loved ones. […]
FIRST BLACK-OWNED BANK Profile America — The capital of the vanquished Confederacy was the site of the first chartered black-owned bank in the U.S. Known as the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers, it founded […]
U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Needs Urgent Modernization Frank V. Vernuccio, Jr., J.D. The recent test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California was successful, but concerns about America’s deteriorating nuclear deterrent continue. Only […]
SETTLING THE CZECH Immigration as an item of government involvement appeared on Colonial America’s shores 350 years ago. Born in Bohemia, essentially today’s Czech Republic, Auguste Herman came to the New World initially to work for the Dutch colony […]
DISCONTENTMENT: THE BEGINNING OF CHANGE By Rev. J. Loren Russell, BA, MDiv Scripture (Joshua 7:7, 13 NLT): Then Joshua cried out, “Oh, Sovereign LORD, why did you bring us across the Jordan River if you are going to let […]
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT Saturday, February 27 — On this date in 1872, America’s third female law student was graduated. But this third was a first. Charlotte Ray was a freeborn African-American, and the first black woman to graduate law school. With her […]
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