BRONX D.A. ADVISORY: RICHARD ROSARIO 440 MOTION DENIED Defendant Richard Rosario’s motion to vacate his conviction based on actual innocence has been denied. People v. Richard Rosario Timeline: June 19, 1996: George Collazo is murdered November 23, 1998: Defendant Richard […]
NWBxDems Facebook Group Merges Politics With Community Where would you go when you have a neighborhood concern or want to start a conversation between your elected officials (or their staff), community activists, and other informed Bronx residents? Where can someone go to share both a productive […]
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. tees off towards Manhattan on the opening day of the Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point in The Bronx on April 1, 2015. New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli presents Bronx Borough […]
Budget Includes Landmark Education Reforms New York’s education system is set to implement some of its most dramatic and fundamental reforms in years through Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Education Transformation Act. “When it comes to education, the budget we approved will […]
On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, at 5 p.m., Police Officers Ryan Galvin, Mark Xylas and Vaughan Ettienne, all assigned to the 81 Precinct Anti-Crime Unit, were on patrol in the vicinity of Ralph Avenue and Bainbridge Street (Brooklyn) when they […]
The recently enacted State Budget allocates the state’s $5.4 billion in financial settlements to continue growing and strengthening New York’s economy. The budget includes the $1.5 billion Upstate Revitalization Initiative to jumpstart the best regional approaches to economic development, $1.3 […]
2015 Urban Environmental Challenge Calling all runners! Date: 04/12/2015 Time: 10:00 AM-12:00 AM Location: Race starts at Van Cortlandt Park, opposite the Tortoise & Hare Statue on Broadway. A 10k race of true cross country trails including stream crossings […]
TAXING TIME FOR AN ACCOUNTANT Joseph Junkovic Sentenced to State, Fed Time for Tax Evasion (Bronx, NY – March 30, 2015) — He was supposed to help poor cancer patients. Instead, this Bronx accountant helped himself to money – and […]
Why Did Sheldon Silver Pay A Consultant $750,000 and Spend Almost $2 Million When He Had No Challengers? by Gary Tilzer From 2010 to 2014, Friends of Silver (the former Speaker’s main campaign account) paid lobbyists campaign consultant BerlinRosen over $750,000. […]
U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a former Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan, was formally charged on Wednesday with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, and could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted of the most serious count, the Army […]
Sade Baderinwa of WABC-TV delivers keynote On Thursday, March 26, Monroe College held Inspire to Aspire, its third annual female empowerment event for more than 300 high school girls in the Mintz Auditorium on the college’s Bronx campus. The girls were […]
Ethics Reform Includes Nation’s Strongest and Most Comprehensive Disclosure Laws for Public Officials with Outside Income Ethics in government and conflicts of interest in the legislature have been among the most persistent issues facing New York State for generations. Governor […]
No tax news is good news, for now E.J. McMahon One of the best things about New York’s newly adopted state budget for fiscal 2016 is something that’s not in it (yet): a costly new state subsidy of homeowners’ local property taxes. […]
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