Charles Augusto Jr. of Irvington has been in demand on the news programs after he foiled a robbery at his Harlem store by shooting the four would-be robbers, killing two of them. Most readers are expressing support for Augusto, such as this comment: Gus, God bless you, you did the… Read More →
If you haven’t already, please take a run through Milt Hoffman’s Sunday Perspective article about the settlement in the affordable-housing lawsuit involving Westchester County and the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York Inc. Milt, retired senior editor of The Journal News, is a living treasure — the go-to person if… Read More →
A proposal by Gov. David Paterson to impose harsher penalties on drivers who drink and/or do drugs and then drive with children in the car had many readers cynically wondering about the motives behind the legislation. The proposed law would elevate the charges to a felony against anyone found to… Read More →
In an April 1 post, “In search of a statistic,” I noted that, in response to columnist Noreen O’Donnell’s citing of a statistic provided by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, we received the following from Sarah Longwell, managing director of the American Beverage Institute, a self-described “association of restaurants and on-premise… Read More →
The U.S. Education Department has re-set its guidelines for schools’ response to the swine flu, saying the schools should stay open unless “high numbers” of kids come down with H1N1 virus. (See story in today’s USA Today here.) It’s a big change from last spring, when 700 schools first closed… Read More →
Tune in today as the Editorial Board continues the conversation about drunk driving – with a special Editorial Spotlight roundtable discussion with experts on the issue. (Here’s a link to today’s editorial on the subject.) You can watch it LIVE online by going to lohud.com/editorialspotlight. The program is scheduled to… Read More →
The sadness and confusion felt thought the community last week over a July 26 eight-fatality wrong-way crash on the Taconic State Parkway changed yesterday. The sadness has become anger, though the confusion remains, as many who read that the wrong-way driver, Diane Schuler, was drunk and stoned, with a BAC… Read More →
We’ve received quite a few letters over the past few weeks regarding President Barack Obama’s plan for health-care reform now being debated in Congress. Both sides have been “rallying the troops” and arming them with talking points. So how are the two sides doing? In terms of sheer volume, the… Read More →
It was revealed today that Diane Schuler, the Long Island mother who drove the wrong-way on the Taconic for almost 2 miles before causing a deadly head-on collision that killed 8 people, 4 of which were children, had a blood-alcohol content of twice the legal limit and was driving “while… Read More →
Is the “Cash for Clunkers” program a lemon? That’s what readers are debating after hearing that Congress is considering extending the program with an additional $2 billion of support. The program gives new car buyers rebates of $3,500 to $4,500 for turning in a low-mileage vehicles to buy a high… Read More →