IDC Announces Passage of Erin Merryn’s Law
Important Anti-Abuse Legislation Sponsored by Assembly-member Jeff Dinowitz in the Assembly. The Independent Democratic Conference was joined today by Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz, (D-Bronx), and nationally recognized anti-abuse advocate and survivor Erin Merryn to hail the passage of important legislation to stamp out child sexual abuse in New York.
Museum of the Moving Image and Center for Communication invite you:
Children and Television: An Evening with Joan Ganz Cooney
Moderated by CBS reporter Lesley Stahl
Admission: $25
FREE to Center for Communication community
An evening of conversation and clips on Wednesday, May 2, 7:00 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
What did this guy say? Was he really speaking English?
The following is an amazing video of a six-minute tour of our planet’s English accents. Check out Dan Considine's Video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jwQSVtG8LWM#!
Event: Retirement Issues 2012
When: June 10-13, 2012 (Deadline: April 30)
Where: Washington, D.C.
WTC becomes New York City's tallest skyscraper Monday
News conference is scheduled for 2 p.m.
There were no distress signals or calls from sailboat before it was wrecked. The US Coast Guard, Mexican navy and civilian vessels suspend their search for a missing sailor after finding the bodies of three other crew members.
Japan's political leader hopes meeting with Obama helps him at home. Obama and Yoshihiko Noda meet today.
US Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx) and NYC Department for the Aging Commissioner Lilliam Barrios-Paoli will speak out against House Republicans’ efforts to eliminate the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) program, which would significantly harm NYC’s seniors, persons with disabilities, children, and middle-class families. Today’s event will take place @ 11AM at Elmhurst Jackson Heights Senior Center, one of the senior centers that is at risk of losing funding under the Republican plan.
USA/CHINA RELATIONS. Chen Human Rights Policy Test.
US & AFRICA SOLDIERS SEARCH. Madman Joe Kony.
HIGHWAY HORROR. Deadly Tragic Accident.
MISSING SAILOR. Pacific Yacht Race.
1 WTC TALLEST IN NYC. Today!
Hello-
Seven people died today. This time, as a result of an accident on Bronx a highway.
For the second time in less than one year, another one has occurred on the Bronx River Parkway, which led to a vehicle falling off the highway to the streets below.
What are your plans? What will you do to examine all transportation safety issues, including those on the Bronx River Parkway?
Could you please suggest some potential solutions?
Finally, what else have you done for US lately?
Thanks for your time and consideration.
City Island Images
Following a historic two-year campaign that created a citywide living wage movement that sets the standards for nationwide policies, the final Living Wage Bill will be voted on by the New York City Council at the stated meeting this coming Monday. This vote will reflect the voice of 74% of New Yorkers who are in favor of the living wage bill, according to poll results released in December from Quinnipiac University.
Seven individuals have been killed after a minivan they were riding in lost control on a Bronx River Parkway overpass and ultimately coming to rest inside The Bronx Zoo.
Three of them were children dead in the one-vehicle accident were children. All of the dead were in the minivan.
The noon time accident occurred on the southbound lanes of the Bron River Parkway, just north of East 180th Street. According to officials, the minivan was traveling southbound in the left lane, when apparently a tire was blown, the vehicle lost control and struck the divider.