Opinion Exchange

What people are talking about in 24 hours of LoHud.com: Occupy Wall Street, a movement seeking social and economic justice, celebrates its one-year anniversary today. Events in Manhattan included marches and arrests. I have asked this question since this movement started and I cannot get a clear answer. What exactly… Read More →

Trending on Twitter in the suburbs and the city this morning: Occupy Wall Street and #s17. Today, Sept. 17, marks the one-year anniversary of the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Schedule of activities. I am here in defense of mother earthIt is why I #Occupy #S17 #climatechange #Fracking… Read More →

Trending on Twitter in the suburbs and the city this morning: Today marks the 11th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center, and the only trending topic not connected is iOS. #neverforget tweets and Flickr photos: [View the story “9/11 anniversary” on Storify] What topics or hashtags are… Read More →

What people are talking about in 24 hours of LoHud.com: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority vowed Thursday to fight a court ruling that the payroll tax helping to fund public transportation is unconstitutional. “Removing more than $1.2 billion in revenue from the Payroll Mobility Tax, plus hundreds of millions of dollars… Read More →

Trending on Twitter in the suburbs and the city this morning: — Empire State Building. A shooting just outside the iconic building ended with the gunman dead and three or four many people wounded this morning, according to the NYPD. Prayers out to the victims and everyone near the Empire… Read More →

What people are talking about in 24 hours of LoHud.com: Two 15-year-old friends who received text messages from a girl in the Chestnut Ridge rape case testified Wednesday that the 14-year-old asked for help. They didn’t call police or tell adults, one of the girls said, because she wanted the… Read More →

What people are talking about in 24 hours of LoHud.com: All southbound lanes of the Palisades Interstate Parkway, from Stony Point south to the George Washington Bridge, will be closed Saturday for the cycling portion of the Ironman U.S. Championship. It won’t affect me but it is still ridiculous. The… Read More →

What people are talking about today on LoHud.com: New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg knows best what his city should drink and science has his back, we assert in our editorial Wednesday. “There is a very big difference between banning synthetic trans-fats, a harmful additive, which when replaced with a… Read More →