Dr. Penny Grant tells a horror story about an Oklahoma woman, a mother ravaged by the exhausting effects of crystal methamphetamine addiction, who slept through her baby burning to death.
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.
