Unfortunately, some publications and magazines have in the past published Hot Women in Politics, with unacceptable words slutty and others, to describe female candidates, another newspaper has speculated whether a congresswoman decided to have plastic surgery, and an online media claims another was playing up her femininity. Also, countless examples race and gender in media coverage devoted to public officials’ looks, clothing and hair styles.
US Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx) has announced the reintroduction of his bill, H.R. 3413, to name the post office on West Avenue in the Bronx after Private Isaac T. Cortes, an Army soldier and Bronx native who was killed in Iraq in 2007.
Pvt. Cortes was raised in the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx and attended Christopher Columbus High School. He enlisted in the Army on November 21, 2006, completed his individual infantry training course in Fort Benning, Ga., and then moved on to Fort Drum before being deployed to Iraq in September 2007.
Eight NYC public high school teachers who engage their students with passion, animation and scholarly studies have earned Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science & Mathematics.
The awards are presented annually by the Fund for the City of New York and sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation includes a $5,000 prize.
Among the criteria to be used in the evaluation of the candidates are:
• Student achievement, progress and outcomes
• Teaching style and effectiveness
• Innovation and creativity in the classroom environment
Deputy Bronx Borough President Aurelia Greene will join officials from the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo and children from PS 205 at the Bronx Zoo’s Dancing Crane Café to kick-off Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.’s holiday toy drive.
In honor of the start of the holiday season, school children from PS 205 will be on hand to donate the first toys of the year.
Who: Deputy Bronx Borough President Aurelia Greene
John Calvelli, WCS Executive Vice President of Public Affairs
School children from PS205
US MILITARY PRESENCE. Australia Bases.
SYRIAN OPPOSITION. Army Defections.
EUROPEAN DEBT. Crisis Spreading?
US SUPER-COMMITTEE. Stymied.
SLOAN AWARDS. Top Teachers.
Following 36 years of silence, the US government released former President Richard M. Nixon's testimony during a June 1975 special prosecutor's investigation of the Watergate scandal.
As most people know, the investigation, prompted by news-media disclosures of high-level sabotage and abuse of power in the White House, had begun two years earlier.
By the time Nixon appeared before the grand jury, its discoveries had already forced his resignation from the presidency
http://nixon.archives.gov/virtuallibrary/tapeexcerpts/index.php
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. joined state and city officials, as well as representatives of the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, to announce that electric truck manufacturer Smith Electric Vehicles will soon open a new state of the art electric truck manufacturing facility at the former Port Morris lamp warehouse at 275 Locust Avenue. Smith Electric Vehicles hopes to create more than 100 local “green” jobs.
A New York Supreme Court judge has upheld the NYC’s right to enforce rules to bar the Occupy Wall Street protesters from camping overnight at Zuccotti Park.
Michael D. Stallman said, “The court is mindful of the movements’ First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and peaceable assembly.” But he added, quoting from another case, “Even protected speech is not equally permissible in all places and at all times.”
As the Mike Bloomberg's NYPD began removing Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park this morning morning, they immediately created a media-free bubble around their police action, pushing reporters out of view and clearing the airspace of news helicopters. Bloomber and his police commissioner said they were protecting the press.
It was a cloudy morning and at times it appeared that the heavens were set to shed some tears. However, the weather held up as mother nature welcomed members of Ed Sadler's large and wonderful family, some who had traveled from as far away as California. There were local community leaders there, as well as many City Islanders (clam diggers and mussel suckers), all there to pay tribute and to participate in his wake, the Bronx funeral services and City Island burial ceremonies, where Ed Sadler was born, lived and loved or 95 wonderful years.