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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

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The Chinese connection

We share Avella’s concern for the Tibetan people, who have suffered and are seeking autonomy. But we also think that interfering with the Olympics is a particularly bad idea. Avella wants the Olympics moved out of Beijing and wants American sponsors
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Cloud Hangs over Willets Point

According to the Independent Budget Office, only 3.7 percent of the housing planned for families making less than $50,000 citywide will be built in Queens.

Monserrate said he won’t back the project unless it sets aside one-third of the new ho
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‘The True Genius of this Nation’

In his speech, Obama not only addressed the outrageous comments of his longtime friend and pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, he took on the larger issue of racism in America.

Politically it might have been easier for Obama to cut ties with Wright.
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A Real Neighbor

Rose Schwing, 84, fell inside her home where she lives alone and was trapped there for three days until a former neighbor noticed that mail and newspapers were piling up outside her home. Some of the mail was already blowing in the wind. Kim Russo, a 47-y
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Don’t cut meals to boro seniors

DFTA’s plans to restructure its programs for our aging neighbors are troubling. Queens Civic Congress is not convinced that the agency’s promises of saving money by adopting the Bronx model of weekly delivery of bulk frozen meals to homebound
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MTA builds train lines to nowhere

Let’s face something: the LIRR was built to haul milk and not people! Look it up and you’ll see that’s why most of the stations don’t exist at the major population centers on Long Island that sprang up after the Second World War. E
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Paterson faces budget crunch

As lieutenant governor, Paterson made conservation and renewable energy his signature issues. But the governor’s responsibilities are far more complex, and Mr. Paterson will now have the opportunity to show he can rise to the occasion by championing

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