How do you say “Census” in Spanish? Tune in to one of the popular Spanish-language Telenovelas, or soap operas, that are broadcast five nights a week on the Telemundo cable station and you will soon find out. According to published reports, the U.S. Census Bureau has teamed up with the producers of Mas Sabe el [...]

Just a quick note: If you are registered in a party that is holding a primary today, don’t forget to vote !

Check out Julie Moran Alterio’s Sunday story re

area residents whose Tweets have developed

devoted followings.  (Whew, did it, in < 140 characters!)

Now that Obama’s school speech is over, perhaps the trumped-up controversy will die down. I suspect there were, at most, a half-dozen parents who were legitimately upset that the President of the United States would be delivering an address to encourage kids to stay in school (Oh, horrors! What a socialist message!), and the rest [...]

Am I the only one who thinks there was a bit of overkill in the all-out police response to track down a squatter who was discovered sleeping in a house under construction in Somers yesterday? 

Reading the quote in  Journal News staff writer Terence Corcoran’s story today, even the homeowner himself didn’t sound very alarmed. ”It looks like he took [...]

There is a new public service announcement out of the U.K. that warns against texting while driving. The video, which is available here on youtube, is so graphic and disturbing that I won’t link to it. Suffice it to say that it shows teenage girls, laughing and having fun, texting the usual romance fluff, as [...]

One image in the youtube videos that accompany today’s front page story about Yonkers’ gang members flaunting their guns on the internet, must be sending a panic through the developers, city leaders and community advocates who have tried to re-brand Yonkers as the next Upper Upper West side.

The opening image in the self-promoting video for [...]

Editorial Writers are kind of in the public service announcement business. We spend our days telling people (usually government people) that such and such action is good, bad, helpful, dangerous or a waste of taxpayer money. Maybe that’s why my ears perk up when I hear a particularly effective public service announcement, as I did [...]

Even the wacky imaginings of Dr. Seuss can’t top on the goings on in Albany these days. The state Legislature’s total disregard for the citizens of New York State seem to reduce voters to the size of Dr. Seuss’ most lovable characters—the tiny Whos who live on a speck of dust, so insignificant to the [...]

Last night my home telephone number was randomly selected to be part of a Quinnipiac University poll on national politics, or so the fellow who called told me. It was the first time I’ve gotten to contribute MY thoughts to one of the big national polls we often report on, so I said I’d be [...]