New legislation attempting to limit the abuses of telephone calling card companies has cleared another hurdle in the House of Representatives, moving it one step closer on its way to requiring stricter government regulation of how the $4 billion industry treats its consumers.

A listing of public and community meeting in the northwest Bronx.

Health leaders and members of the Bronx’s Southeast Asian community gathered at the Bronx Library Center on Kingsbridge Road on Sept. 18 to discuss the health issues affecting the borough’s Vietnamese and Cambodian populations.

A number of advocates, education policy experts and principals have criticized the progress report’s test-centric approach. But the DOE says that, according to the department’s research, those scores often determine a student’s ability to succeed in high school and are a big help to schools.

A listing of arts, entertainment and educational events for our readers in the Bronx.

Talk about scientific advancement. In 2011, aspiring science students and faculty at Lehman College will move from Gillet Hall, a 1930s building that was never really designed for laboratory work, and other disparate campus quarters, to a stunning new "green" structure that will rise in the leafy campus’s northwest corner near the APEX gymnasium.

A listing community events, programs and services for our readers in the Bronx.

I realize, of course, that this is a local paper, dedicated to local news, yet I thought that we might want to chat about the economic situation via the Norwood News since this “crisis” and our government’s response is going to impact all of us.

I say, “No Bailout!” because the people involved with this “crisis” knew what they were doing and do not deserve to be “saved.” The banks made unscrupulous housing loans to people who could not really afford them but were duped by low initial interest rates. Then the banks packaged and sold these mortgages to investors, thereby creating a tangled web with no accountability between borrower and lender. Finally, as prices were dropping, these investor companies refused to adhere to any regulation and so instead of stopping the downward plummet, they let the market run amok.

In the Democratic primary on Sept. 9, Pedro Espada Jr., a Bronx businessman and a former state senator and councilman, defeated incumbent Efrain Gonzalez in the race for the 33rd State Senate District.