No doubt many a New Yorker enjoyed this bit of news from Howard Brubaker (in his column, “Of All Things”) regarding New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, who later as president would preside over the end of Prohibition. LEADING BY EXAMPLE…FDR and a gin martini. (Time/Life) * *...
July 10, 2024 Leave a comment Birth of Jack “Legs” Diamond, Irish American Gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond, an Irish American gangster in Philadelphia and New York City during the Prohibition era also known as John Nolan and Gentleman Jack, is born in Philadelphia on July 10, 1897, to...
Governor Murphy signed the bill Monday, putting it into effect immediately. January 11, 2024 3:16pm EST New Jersey mandates grief education in schools New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed a bill into law that now requires public and private schools in the state to teach about grief in...
Long Island Towns - Long Island New York Towns | Suffolk | Copiague | Copaigue is a hamlet and census-designated place on the South Shore of Long Island in the Town of Babylon in Suffolk County, New York. The name Copaigue comes from
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Jefferson froze Burr out and withheld patronage from his followers. In April 1804 Burr, knowing he would not be renominated for vice president, ran for governor of New York. Alexander Hamilton, former secretary of the Treasury, had come to hate Burr, and Hamilton’s rage was reflected in hi...
In June, the grassroots groups Unemployed Workers Union of Ohio and Unemployed Action Ohio, with support from the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, held anews conferenceat the Statehouse to protest Governor Mike DeWine’s benefit cuts. The Ohio Organizing Collaborative is reaching out to unemployed worke...
Memoir about living in Papua New Guinea for the past 24 years as an anthropologist and mother--and consultant, activist, conservationist.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Children's advocate Cindy Kiro said Monday she hopes to inspire Maori girls after becoming the first Indigenous woman appointed to the role of governor-general.
Trump concedes the pair did seem to be on friendly terms when cameras captured them chatting, and Obama laughing as they sat next to each other Thursday at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter. The president-elect was asked about it later in a Fox News interview fr...