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Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on June 23, 2018 28 Comments
A couple of weeks ago, we covered New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's "two-pronged plan" to "diversify" NYC's elite public high schools.  These schools are considered elite not only for exceptional academic rigor but because they accept only those who excel on a standardized test. De Blasio's plan requires that these schools reserve 20% of their seats for students from low-income minority middle schools who do not pass the test, let alone excel on it.  Instead, the schools are required to admit these particular students if they manage to almost score the lowest possible passing score.  The second part of his plan is to eliminate the standardized test altogether.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on June 14, 2018 40 Comments
Thursday, New York's Attorney General Barbara Underwood sued President Trump, his three oldest children, and the Trump Foundation. Underwood alleges the Trumps intermingled funds, using the foundation as a "checkbook" for other business and non-profit ventures. She's requesting more $2.8 million in restitution (not including penalties), dissolution of the foundation, and bar Trump and other board members from serving on charitable boards in New York.

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 29, 2018 5 Comments
It's on. It's off. It's on again? That's basically been the status of the summit between the U.S. and North Korea this past week. It looks like North Korea wants the summit to happen since dictator Kim Jong Un has sent an ex-spy chief to America to help revive the summit.

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 26, 2018 35 Comments
Back in January 2017, after President Donald Trump took office, Greg Piatek, an accountant from Philadelphia visited the Happiest Hour Bar in New York City's West Village. Piatek wore a Make America Great Again hat, which prompted staff to ask Piatek and his friends to leave. He sued and claimed the staff "offended his sense of being American." His lawyer made a case for religious discrimination to no avail.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 19, 2018 27 Comments
The new millennium is turning out to have a lot more in common with the 21st century B.C. than I would have originally forecast! It appears that not only are the streets of San Francisco laden with disease, but researchers have now found that 25 percent of the mice inhabiting New York City carry bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics.
Tests conducted by a team from Columbia University on 416 mice collected in seven New York City-area locations in just over a year revealed house mice are "carriers of several gastrointestinal disease-causing agents," including C. diff, E. coli and Salmonella, among others, according to a study published in the American Society for Microbiology on Tuesday.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on April 15, 2018 51 Comments
A prominent LGBT rights attorney, David Buckel, committed suicide by setting himself on fire in New York's Prospect Park.  Buckel, who was involved in the Brandon Teena murder case made famous by the film Boys Don't Cry, left suicide notes and mailed copies to various media outlets. Buckel wrote that his final act of "early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves” and expressed his hope that his suicide will serve others in some way.

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 29, 2017 0 Comments
On Thursday night, a fire raged through a building in the Bronx, which killed 12 people, including four children. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the city's deadliest fire in more than a quarter-century likely started because of children playing with a stove in a first floor apartment.

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 28, 2017 14 Comments
There used to be a stereotype about people with delusions of grandeur believing they were Napoleon Bonaparte. In Bill de Blasio's case, he thinks he is Edison, Henry Ford and Gandhi all rolled into one.

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 11, 2017 23 Comments
Authorities have identified the suspect in the New York City explosion on Monday morning as Akayed Ullah, 27. They have also called the explosion an "attempted terrorist attack." The New York Post reported that sources said the suspect told investigators he wanted revenge:
Akayed Ullah, 27, who is believed to be from Bangladesh and was living in Brooklyn, told authorities in sum and substance from his hospital bed: “They’ve been bombing in my country and I wanted to do damage here,” sources said.

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 03, 2017 17 Comments
The New York City Police Department has said it is gathering evidence against Harvey Weinstein after actress Paz de la Huerta's accused him of rape. From Fox News:
The NYPD said they corroborated portions of actress Paz de la Huerta’s account, in which she alleges Weinstein raped her twice in her apartment, and are seeking more evidence in their investigation to obtain an arrest warrant.
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