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Columnists April 14, 2006  RSS feed
Chatting with Chapey
     by Dr. Geraldine M. Chapey, Democratic District Leader
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Broad Channel Bits
     Enjoy Easter everyone! On Friday, April 14 at 7 p.m. there will be A Night at the Races to benefit Friends in Need at the American Legion Hall in Broad Channel.Their house was destroyed by a fire. There is a $10 donation at the door; there will be 50/50's, raffles, hot and cold buffet and beer
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From the Editor's Desk
     As "riots" go in New York City, it wasn't much of a riot.
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From The Artists Studio
Rockaway Artists Alliance Camp KidsmArt News And A Fitting Tribute
     Camp kidsmART is on the horizon! This year camp will run from July 10 - August 10, Mondays through Thursdays, 9:30 am - 2:30 p.m. The program is a half hour longer than last year in answer to many requests for extended hours.
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Eye On Physical Therapy
     It is game of cat and mouse. Is that patient getting a drink of water at the water cooler or making a mad dash for the front door? Are they waiting for the bicycle to become available or are they waiting for the most opportune time to flee? Why all the cloak and dagger?
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It's My Turn
     Ira Feldman Fear is amazing. Applied the right way it can achieve almost any result. In 1961 on the weekend after the Cuban Missile Crisis my father took me out to the backyard to lay out plans for a bomb shelter. It wasn't until Mr. Paticoff, the physicist who lived next door, convinced him
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Notes On Consumer Affairs
     A new law signed by the President on April 20, 2005, makes it more difficult for people to file for bankruptcy. The new law, known as the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, went into effect on October 17, 2005.
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MovieScope
'Basic Instinct 2'- Stinkeroo
     Actor Michael Douglas is a smart man. He passed on reprising his role from 1992's "Basic Instinct."Actress Sharon Stone is not so smart. She didn't.
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Meeks' Message From Capitol Hill
Making Wellness A 6th District Family Affair
     It was great seeing constituents from the Rockaways at the "Making Wellness A Family Affair" health fair I hosted at York College a couple of weeks ago. That event was part of the Black Health Empowerment tour co-sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus and AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical firm.The
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The Rockaway Irregular
Truth And The Search For Truth
     In September of 2003,roughlytwo years after the attacks visited on us on September 11, 2001,the New York Sun ran a story aboutthe Riverside Church in Morningside Heights. The church, a renowned uptown liberal bastion, washosting an "alternative symposium," a gatheringdescribed as being for those "wh
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