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"Dorothy Dunne travels in style to San Diego" to be aired this Saturday, September 16 on UHF channel 39 at 10:30 a.m. Please tune in. More ... Tara Anne Ris and Henry John Braun were united in the sacrament of matrimony on September 9, 2000 by celebrant Father John Cullinane in St. Genevieve More ... Hey people! I was going through letters and emails from readers the other day and I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the questions they asked with you. More ... Welcome to a new school year. Let me begin by inviting you to the school. We invite and welcome your participation. More ... Just imagine. You're planning a dinner party and you can invite 50 guests. You have access to the movers and shakers who are at the height of the entertainment, financial, political, and literary worlds. Whom, dead or living, would you choose to be on your guest list? This would be mine! More ... In 1993, Noach Dear made an agreement with state investigators for him to repay more than $37 thousand to his private foundation that was set up to assist Russian Jews. The investigators had found that Dear had used foundation funds to pay for his personal expenses. At the time, Dear said, "All that is in the past and we have moved on from there." An audit released in January of this year revealed that Dear had received "511 excessive contributions from 325 individuals and two political committees totaling $563,913" during the period of July, 1997 through December, 1998. Dear says that he has worked with the Federal Election Commission to "correct every mistake." He added that he "obviously learned from that experience." One would have thought that he would have learned from the 1993 experience, but he obviously did not. Just last week, Marcia Kramer of Channel 2 News reported that Dear had taken an illegal contribution of $20 thousand from the owner of the Green Bus Line and Jamaica Bus. Kramer intimated that Dear had taken the money to insure that the companies keep their franchise despite the fact that the lines have a terrible record and that they continually pollute the community. For the past several years, the City Council (Dear heads its Transportation Committee) and the mayor have continued the existing franchises by not allowing a competitive bid system. Dear answered by saying that he is not the head of the Franchise Committee, which has the final say, but that is a lame answer in respect to the power that he wields in the council. In my book, three strikes and you More ... The bilingual program as now constituted in New York City destroys the very future of tens of thousands of Hispanic kids. The program benefits only two groups: the politicians that mandated this racist, destructive program in the first place simply to garner minority votes and the people who work for the bilingual infrastructure More ... On Friday morning at 11 a.m. we participated in the opening of the Coast Guard ferry docking station at Fort Tilden. Sea Streak America Inc. tested the waters with the ferry service. In collaboration with Gateway Park, they lent a ferry for a trial run for the day. More ... |
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