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Marijuana Farm In Bronx Building

Police raiding a five-floor building in Bronx Tuesday found it filled with nearly 600 marijuana plants. Some of the plants were nearly 7-feet tall.

[Crime & Punishment] Commercial Robberies In Bedford Park

Bedford Park merchants and vendors are on guard following two commercial robberies and a “noticed increase” in crime during the past month....
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[Crime & Punishment] Bronx Man Sentenced For Role In Prostitution Ring

A Bronx, N.Y. native was sentenced to 51 months in prison Wednesday for introducing his cousin to two prostitutes, including a 14-year-old girl, that wound up working in a Norwalk-based prostitution ring....
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[Crime & Punishment] Bronx Man Found With 100 Packets Of Heroin

A Bronx man was arrested at Union Station in New Haven, CT after police found 100 packets of heroin in his possession....
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[Crime & Punishment] Cops In Bronx Are Out Of Control

NYPD Internal Affairs is investigating four Bronx cops after they were caught on video viciously pummeling and kicking a drug suspect....
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[Crime & Punishment] Police Kill 18-Year-Old Inside Bronx Bathroom

A New York City police officer shot and killed a teen inside a Bronx home, the NYPD says....
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[Crime & Punishment] Bronx Girl, 8, Grazed By Bullet On Way Home

Police are looking for a gunman after an 8-year-old girl was grazed by a bullet as she walked home from school Wednesday afternoon in Bronx....
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[Crime & Punishment] Skimmer Steals $180K From Staples Customers

Valerie Fajard, 21, of Bronx, a cashier at a Westchester Staples, was arrested Tuesday, accused of using a skimming device to capture the data from about 50 unsuspecting customers....
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[World] Ceaseless Change Dominates Our Dynamic Planet

Nothing about Earth history is static or unchanging. That’s particularly true of climate, and thereon hangs more than one interesting tale including recent news of a scientific advance in understanding how past climate has changed....
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[Health] Grape Seed Extract Kills Head & Neck Cancer Cells

Head and neck cancer, the 6th most common malignancy among men worldwide, kills close to 12,000 Americans every year....
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[Society] Screen Debut Of ‘Speedsuit’ Gives Anti-Bullying Message New Voice

On Friday February 3, 2012 the Thessalonia Worship Center will host a private screening for "Speedsuit," a new independent film with a fresh take on teen bullying....
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[Crime & Punishment] Shopping Cart Thrown On Two In Bronx

Authorities are investigating an incident in the Bronx in which two men were injured when they were hit by a shopping cart that had apparently been pushed off an upper floor of a parking garage outside a store....
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[Crime & Punishment] Bronx Man Arrested In Phone Fraud Ring

The Mount Pleasant Police Department arrested a Bronx man in relation to a ring of fraud schemes at the Sprint Wireless Store in Hawthorne....
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[Local] A Life Lost In Bronx Fire

The FDNY says one man is dead and one woman injured in a basement fire in a Bronx apartment early Sunday morning....
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[Crime & Punishment] Bronx Woman Embezzled Over $1M

A Bronx woman who worked for the New York Archdiocese is accused of embezzling more than $1 million from the church....
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[World] More Money, More Instability

Another Wall of Money on Its Way...
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[Culture] Emerging New York Poet Lucian Sperta Releases A New Poetry Book Entitled: Dukkha & Hits Top 100 List

Mr. Lucian Sperta arrives with a new book of poetry entitled Dukkha, a name derived from Buddhist philosophy....
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[Crime & Punishment] Suspect In Bronx Carjacking With Child Saught

Police have released surveillance video of a suspect in the Bronx carjacking Saturday in which a young boy was taken along with the stolen vehicle....
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[Crime & Punishment] Lotto Ticket Conartist Offers Winnings

Police in Bronx are searching for a man they say approached a woman on the street to offer a share of some lottery ticket winnings, then burglarized her home when she brought him to her apartment....
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[Religion] 162-Year Bronx Parish Closes

The parish of St. Augustine's Church, which was founded in 1849 in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, is celebrating its last Mass today....
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Ceaseless Change Dominates Our Dynamic Planet

Nothing about Earth history is static or unchanging. That’s particularly true of climate, and thereon hangs more than one interesting tale including recent news of a scientific advance in understanding how past climate has changed.

More Money, More Instability

Another Wall of Money on Its Way

Hot Diggity Dam

As the long season of darkness sweeps over the country, it’s a natural time to think about lighting – and how dependent we are on electricity during this dim time of year. You can heat your home with several different energy sources, including natural gas, heating oil or wood. But unless you’re living off-the-grid, the lights throughout your abode burn brightly because of electricity from the grid.

Throwing Good Money After Bad

“The surest way to destroy a nation is to debauch its currency.”; “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
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Stepping Up To A Bright Idea

At first I wasn’t sure I was reading the CNN report correctly. The story hinged on special pavement that uses the impact of human feet to generate electricity.

The Euro Solution - Buy Now, Cry Later

In the last issue of The Dismal Optimist I wrote “One thing seems likely. The Europeans will come up with some kind of solution for Greece. No matter how stupid it is the stock markets will probably rally. Buy now, cry later.” It looks like that statement was correct. The stock markets anyway seem to be happy. For now.

The Great Recession Marches On

"When the weasel says ‘Happy New Year’ to the chicken, this is not good news.”

Doing More With Less On The Road

Between the debt-ceiling kerfuffle and Hurricane Irene, you may have missed two bits of summertime news that will be important for what we drive in the coming years.
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Stepping Back From Dam Power

Just over a century ago, when William Howard Taft was president and I was a young woman, an entrepreneur named Thomas Aldwell started building a dam in the Northwest woods of the Olympic peninsula in Washington.
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Breeding Better Wheat

I spent this past summer trudging through six-mile treks each weekend with two good friends. We walked along the edge of wheat fields outside of town. (My friends and I qualify as middle-aged ladies, so the walks counted as significant exercise. Sad but true.) One of the interesting things about the walks was simply observing the growth and ripening of the wheat fields by which we passed.

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Raymond J. Keating

Raymond J. Keating is the editor and publisher of the Keating Reports, which operates the Long Island Sentinel. He is a writer, commentator and economist, who wrote a column for Newsday for more than a decade, and is now a columnist with Long Island Business News and Dolan Media Company. The views expressed by Keating are strictly his own.