With education, health care, creation of jobs, Social Security and other human needs crying out for our tax dollars here at home, can we afford a war in Aghanistan/Pakistan? What will another trillion dollar war accomplish? Is there anything we can do to encourage negotiated solutions?

With only minutes until show time, production assistants untangle wires, set up props, and position lighting equipment. In a corner, a handful of newscasters huddling to review their scripts shout across the room for pens and make last-minute changes.

It’s a scene typical to any television newsroom, but this one in particular happens to be staffed and run entirely by teenagers.

The Norwood News guide to local summer camp options for parents and kids.

The Kennedy Knights boys hoop squad, playing for the Bronx and the memory of fallen teammate Andre "Pops" Davidson who died last summer during a pickup game, could only hold off the Lincoln Railsplitter juggernaut and history for so long.

The Norwood News arts and entertainment calendar. Find out what’s happening in the Bronx.

A listing of classes, services, programs and community events for our readers in community district 7 and throughout the Bronx.

Grandiose.

That’s the word Ruben Diaz, Jr. uses to describe his ambitious plans for the Bronx if elected borough president.

The 36-year-old Diaz, a Democratic state assemblyman from Soundview for the past 12 years, says people often use the word negatively, but that won’t stop Diaz from trying.

The MTA voted last Wednesday to impose massive service cuts and huge fare hikes on transit riders throughout the Bronx and the rest of the New York City metro area. But state legislators, who failed to come up with a rescue plan by the MTA’s self-imposed timeline, say there is still time to stave off the drastic changes.

The Department of Education has identified 3177 Webster Ave., in Norwood, as the site for a new school. For the past week, Council Member Oliver Koppell has touted the new school as a victory for him and local activists and a means to alleviate overcrowding in the area.