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Bank Account For Young New Yorkers

Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Jonathan Mintz and Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav today announced the NYC First Account, a safe bank account designed to encourage young New Yorkers to open a bank account as they enter the workforce for the first time.

[Politics] Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez Resigns

Governor David A. Paterson today announced that Secretary of State Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez will resign effective August 31, to take a position as Executive Vice President at AARP in Washington, D.C....
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[Society] The Right To Look Ridiculous: Defended

You have the right to look ridiculous, especially in New York....
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[Health] Drug Issues: Call Narcotics Anonymous

If life seems hopeless and you can’t stop your drug use, Narcotics Anonymous offers a way out and new hope for life without the use of drugs....
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[Business] Nike Air Force 1 Bronx Quickstrike

More leak photos have been released from BX Sports who look to be dropping the Nike Air Force 1 Bronx Quickstrike....
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[Politics] Abolish The MTA

The following is a press release from the office of Frank V. Vernuccio, Jr., Republican/Conservative Candidate for the New York State Senate, 34th District....
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[Education] Communities & Justice Symposium

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, and Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, today opened “Communities & Justice: Partnerships & Challenges for the 21st Century,” a two-day criminal justice symposium at John Jay College....
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[Local] Bronx Storm Was A Tornado

On Monday, the National Weather Service declared the Bronx storm an EF-1 tornado, packing winds of 100 miles an hour....
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[Local] Community Center Summer Meals

On Wednesday, July 28th, Highbridge Community Life Center (HCLC) will provide its last summer community meal. The offering is a part of a month-long effort to provide free weekly meals to homeless and disadvantaged residents of Highbridge and surrounding neighborhoods. ...
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[Health] Governor’s New Soda Tax Proposal

Proposal would help New Yorkers make healthier choices while raising nearly $1 billion in much needed revenue...
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Why Hate Undocumented Immigrants?

I am a native born New Yorker, from the Bronx, and a second generation proud American. America is a country that is almost solely composed of immigrants and/or the offspring of immigrants. The only indigenous peoples are the American Indians and even they probably crossed over to this continent, albeit before the rest of us and our ancestors arrived in this wonderful country!
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Jello & Deducing Climate Change

I hope you played with your food when you were young. Perhaps you experimented at some point with pushing a drinking straw through Jello.

"Gasland" Nothing But Hot Air

Those planning to tune in to HBO tonight to view the anti-drilling film "Gasland" should know this: it is a fairy tale; pure fiction and poorly disguised as a factual documentary.

We Have Seen The Future - It Is Greece

Greece – the Road Not Taken Greece is now being forced to go hat in hand to the European Union and the IMF for a massive

Bronx Ranks Top US Growth City?

U-Haul International, Inc. earlier this week released results of the annual U-Haul National Migration Trend Report that reflects the nation's top growth areas for families that moved during 2009. The 2009 Top U.S. Growth Cities Report indicates that for cities with more than with 5,000 families moving, Bronx, NY had the highest percentage of growth, with 17.22 percent.
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FartMachine.com Delivers Tons Of Fun

Nobody wants to admit it, but everybody farts. Whether it is an audible rip or silent but deadly, everyone has to pass gas sometime. We all share this human trait.
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Greece, China – Keep An Eye On Both

Greece—The International Moral Hazard Fund (aka IMF) to the Rescue
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Bronx's Keltic Dreams Entertain Obama

President Barack Obama is celebrating St. Patrick's Day by meeting with Irish Prime minister Brian Cowen at the White House in Washington, DC.
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The Census Is Coming

Concerned about the serious long-term political and financial consequences of an inaccurate census count for New York City, The New York Community Trust has joined with the New York Foundation, the Open Society Institute, and other funders to launch the 2010 Census Funders NYC Initiative.
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Beware Of The IMF Bearing Gifts

The Economist is referring to the Greek financial crisis. Readers of my last piece Privatize the Gains, Socialize the Losses must know what I think of The Economist’s recommendation.
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Maria Milosheva

Maria was born, raised and currently lives in Sofia, Bulgaria, EU. She is a journalist by profession and practices psychological consultation for the past few years. Maria worked as a reporter/journalist for a number of newspapers and radio stations. She served as a chief-editor of the National Library's monthly magazine Librarian for a number of years. Maria started drawing in 1991, urged by a strong inner need to recreate the reality beyond the usual – the world of forms and details… She has taken part in various exhibitions and her work is in a number of private collections around the world. It can be seen at MarmiArt.com. Maria's drawings are created using mixed techniques – aquarelle, tempera, ink, pencils, etc. They are unique and have no names. Their eventual owners would give them names, effectively becoming a part of the process of creating them. Every one can charge their own drawing with one's own energy and identify it with one's self. The drawings will repay generously, predisposing for calm moments of reflection and meditation.