Defense Secretary Robert Gates gave a commencement address to the U.S. Naval Academy last week. In it, he highlighted and reaffirmed basic principles of our democracy – the importance of Congress, a free press and a nonpolitical military.
Everyone knows about the Curse of the Bambino – the legend that holds that the Boston Red Sox went 86 years without winning the World Series because they had sold the great Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920. The Yankees, of course, went on to become the greatest franchise in sports history.
Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, usually an outspoken critic of the water filtration plant being built in Van Cortlandt Park, sat mostly silent during a meeting two weeks ago of the Croton Facility Monitoring Committee, which oversees the filter plant project.
Luke Nee, a native Bronxite who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks, symbolically returned home to North Fordham two weeks ago, his name memorialized on a street sign at the corner of Minerva Place and the Grand Concourse.
Three dozen faculty members rallied outside the Bronx Community College (BCC) campus last Tuesday, protesting compensation practices they feel have long shortchanged adjuncts throughout the City University of New York (CUNY) system.
Lovey Mazique-Rivera, the principal of MS 80 in Norwood, worries about what happens to her impressionable middle schoolers once they leave the friendly confines of her newly-renovated building on Mosholu Parkway.
It’s like the start to a well-told joke. So, Ben Franklin, Malcom X and Pocahontas walk into a school cafeteria… But there’s no punch line this time, only a class of third graders putting history into action.
All year long, kids participating in an arts-focused after-school program at PS 56 have been sharpening their creative skills. Organized by the nonprofit Community Works, 42 students worked with artists after school on various projects.
