Tomorrow, NYC Council Member James Vacca will join Bronx DOT Commissioner Connie Moran at the newly-installed accessible pedestrian signal on Morris Park Avenue, just west of Eastchester Road, in order to highlight the fact that these important devices have now come to the Bronx.
By focusing on poverty, crime and negative behavior, some news outlets fail to give a total portrait of some communities.
Thankfully, overt racism in the press is is rare nowadays and some organizations have made efforts to include people of color in their daily coverage. However, the overwhelming majority of press still emphasizes negative stories like gangs, drugs and violence, sometimes to the exclusion of positive life experiences.
News is about the exception and unusual, but it is also about triumphs and overachievers and other more positive extremes of our everyday life.
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Columbia J-School, 6:30P Thursday, January 19, Stabile Student Center:
Enter through 115th Street Gate of Columbia University.
The documentary "Under Fire: Journalists in Combat" weaves combat footage with first-hand accounts by journalists who reveal what they saw, thought and felt as they confronted both the savagery of war and the insatiable 24-hour news cycle. The film and discussion are co-sponsored by International News Safety Institute, the OPC and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Following the film Dr. Anthony Feinstein will talk about the documentary and conduct a Q&A.
The New York City Police Department is developing a new way to seek people who are carrying firearms on the street. They plan to use radiation scanners, which could detect persons carrying guns, according to NYPD's Top Cop.
This cutting edge technology — which works with infrared imaging detects a natural energy, known as terahertz radiation, that emits from a person’s body, Kelly said during his State of the NYPD address.
Because the radiation waves cannot see through metal, a concealed gun could be detected from the image captured by the lens of the detector.
NYC Councilman Jimmy Vacca reports that three bills passed and approved by the City Council Comm. on Transportation, which he chairs.
One bill prohibits the city from posting the green-yellowish stickers on your car when you get a ticket for violating alternate side parking regulations.
Another bill says the 30 day time period for paying a ticket only begins after a hearing determining your guilt is held, not from the day the ticket is issued should you claim your innocence.
COSTA CONCORDIA SHIPWRECK. 11 Bodies, 28 Missing.
OBAMA VULNERABLE. Some Swing Voters.
KODAK MOMENT. Filing Bankruptcy.
MEXICAN DRUG WAR. Spreading.
NEWT BITTER EX. On TV.
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Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. joined Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC, the nation’s oldest and largest youth mentoring organization, to celebrate National Mentoring Month by declaring January “Mentoring Month” in the Bronx.
Little Brother Brian (left) was on hand to receive a proclamation from Borough President Diaz.
Fall of 2012, New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, NYC’s first public high school that will actually train students to develop software.
This amazing project has been the dream of Mike Zamansky, a highly-regarded teacher at Stuyvesant public high school. It was jump started when Fred Wilson, a VC at Union Square Ventures agreed to get the tech community to help with knowledge, advice, and money.