December 31, 2014 — The “featured” BlogTalkRadio program “Westchester On the Level with Narog and Aris” opens the Thursday, January 1, 2015th broadcast day at 10:00 a.m. EST with Host Hezi Aris in discussion of any and all issues pertinent to the communities of Yonkers, Westchester County, New York State, the nation, and the world. Your participation is shamelessly solicited; share …
Abinanti Statement on Governors’ Veto of Port Authority Reform Legislation
TARRYTOWN, NY — December 31, 2014 – New York Assemblyman Tom Abinanti (D-Greenburgh/Mt. Pleasant) on Monday, December 29, 2014, issued the following statement: “The four legislatures unanimously did what the public thinks is common sense. The Governors owe us a public explanation as to why their limited restructuring of the Port Authority is better than wholesale reform approved by the 612 New …
Evan Inlaw, Esq. to be Sworn in as Judge to the Yonkers City Court
YONKERS, NY – December 31, 2014 – Evan Inlaw, Esq., with be sworn to the Yonkers City Court on Friday, January 2, 2015, at 4:00 p.m., at Yonkers City Hall, in the Ceremonial Courtroom on the 4th Floor. Mr. Inlaw, a Yonkers resident and attorney is the first Democratic African-American judge to be sworn to the bench in Yonkers.
Metropolitan College of New York Professor of Public Affairs, Dr. Oren Levin-Waldman; Rising Media Group Editor Dan Murphy, and Yonkers Downtown / Waterfront Business Improvement District, Executive Director Daniel Lipka on Westchester On the Level with Narog and Aris – Wednesday, December 31, 2014 EST @ 10 a.m.
YONKERS, NY — December 30, 2014 — The “featured” BlogTalkRadio program “Westchester On the Level with Narog and Aris” opens the Wednesday, December 30, 2014th broadcast day at 10:00 a.m. EST with Dr. Oren Levin-Waldman, professor of public policy in the School for Public Affairs at Metropolitan College of New York. Prof. Levin-Waldman has shared his latest dissertation: PUBLIC POLICY: …
PUBLIC POLICY: Economic Models are Political By OREN M. LEVIN-WALDMAN, Ph.D.
In my last column, “Middle Class Issues Need to be De-Politicized“, I noted Harold Lasswell’s classic definition of politics of who gets what, when, and how. In the traditional economics debate on the minimum wage, opponents get what they want in the form of higher profits by effectively suppressing wage rates. How do they get this? By one of two …
BREAKING NEWS UPDATED: TMI Carting Found to Have Illegally Dumped Refuse at Chicken Island
YONKERS POLICE DEPARTMENT UPDATE YONKERS, NY — December 31, 2014 — 3:29 p.m. — On December 29,2014, at 7:30 a.m., numerous YPD units responded to 1 Engine Place (Chicken Island) on a report of a dumping complaint. Arriving units located a large amount of compacted garbage left in the Chicken Island parking lot. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) …
“All You Can Eat Pancakes” Are Back!
Starting January 2, IHOP® Restaurants Serve You A Shortstack Of Their World Famous Buttermilk Pancakes—And Then Another, And Another—Till You Say “When!” Annual Tradition, Fan Favorite since 2002, Returns for a Limited Time Only!! YONKERS, NY – December 30, 2014 — It’s a new year, and what better way to celebrate the start of 2015 than with one of IHOP® …
EarthTalk®: Still in Denial About Climate By RODDY SCHEER and DOUG MOSS
Dear EarthTalk: Are there still outspoken global warming deniers in Congress or the mainstream media? If so, what do they say when presented with scientific facts and anecdotal evidence pointing to an increasingly warming atmosphere? –Ben Charles, Cary, NC Given the preponderance of data showing rising temperatures around the globe in recent decades—along with the increasing frequency of extreme weather events—it’s …