New York's Chinese and Korean communities together celebrated their favorite period of the lunar calendar, with a parade through the streets of Flushing in Queens.
This joyous and colorful and multicultural parade marked the Year of the Goat, Sheep, or Ram depending on your preference.
As this son of a Bush heads towards a possible presidential bid, Jeb is beginning to take fire from those who say his views on immigration, along with his last name, embody a Republican Party establishment that doesn’t truly represent conservatives. Whoever you decide to support... Let Jeb Be Jeb.
The unbearable burden of being Jeb http://bv.ms/1BxDeEE pic.twitter.com/RBDw9HjukK
Jeb Bush's foreign policy team is eerily familiar, in one Venn diagram http://wapo.st/1vFKreA
CNN: Jeb Bush defends NSA dragnet http://cnn.it/1ATT1ME
The cold weather continues, with a winter weather advisory in effect ... 1P UNTIL 2A EST SUNDAY.
* LOCATIONS...NEW YORK CITY...LONG ISLAND...PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT...AND PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY.
* HAZARD TYPES...SNOW AND FREEZING RAIN.
* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 2 TO 4 INCHES...ALONG WITH A TRACE OF ICE.
* VISIBILITIES...ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF MILE AT TIMES.
Another State of the Borough address and Bronx Beep Diaz and this time he spoke from the Mall at Bay Plaza.
During his sixth since becoming borough president in 2009, he said “We move forward, in the spirit of Herman Badillo and Mario Cuomo. We move forward, understanding that we can design and enact a transformative agenda for our future while also respecting the hardships and the glories of our past”
New York City Emergency Management has issued a weather alert for dangerous cold temperatures for tonight, followed by a wintry mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain, and rain Saturday, 2/21 through Sunday 2/22.
Low temperatures tonight are forecast around 10 degrees and wind chills near 5 degrees. Saturday wind chills between 0 and 10 degrees can be expected. Light snow will begin late Saturday morning and continue throughout the day, becoming heavier ubtil 7:00 PM.
Several patients, including a couple who died have been infected with an antibiotic-resistant and a potentially killer Super-bug likely transmitted by contaminated medical instruments at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
Officials warn that nearly 200 patients may have been infected by the Super-bug known as Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE.
Individuals may have been infected during complex endoscopic procedures at the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic and bile-duct problems between October 2014 and January 2015.
The overall weather pattern through the end of the week will continue to
be featured with a pronounced and anomalous upper level trough over the
eastern half of the country, and a big upper level ridge for the western
states. This will keep most of the West Coast, the Great Basin, and the
Desert Southwest warmer and drier than normal, and the central and eastern
parts of the U.S. much colder than normal.
Over the eastern half of the nation, we all know that it has been quite
cold over the past week. An eddy of the polar vortex is leading to the
With just one week to go before the Federal Communications Commission votes on Net Neutrality, cable companies are engaging in some last-ditch efforts to have FCC vote their way.
A key House subcommittee that deals with Internet issues is holding a hearing just one day before the FCC vote on the future for millions of people, who have been fighting for Net Neutrality. This is just another attempt to politicize a nonpartisan issue.
Please contact the committee members and tell them that millions of people support the FCC Plan.
Tutor Perini has set up a conference call to discuss their fiscal results for 2014. Tutor Perini Corporation (NYSE: TPC), will host a conference call at 2:00 PM Pacific Time on Thursday, February 26, 2015, to discuss the Company's fourth-quarter and fiscal 2014 results.
Speakers on the call from Tutor Perini will be Ronald Tutor, Chairman and CEO, and Michael Kershaw, Executive Vice President and CFO. The Company plans to distribute its earnings announcement the same day after the market close.
A-Rod may think he got off easy with his hand written apology, but by not facing his fans and the press, some are wondering why is he hiding?
Alex Rodriguez apologized with a handwritten note, which was published by some media, and also on DOSE OF NEWS * www.doseofnews.com.
Should he have showed up because of the initial level of press coverage he received when claiming his innocence and now may have admitted his guilt? However others considered proper to do so in writing.
