Nice Shoes Dear Diary: I was at the corner of 42nd Street and Third Avenue rushing to work on a sunny morning when a well-dressed woman came up next to me. I could see that she was trying to ask me a question, so I took out one of my earbuds. “What did you say?” […]
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 362 held a two-day celebration over the weekend to show support to veterans as part of its Saskatoon poppy campaign. The celebration included Regina-based playwright Vincent Murphy’s one-man show, Tommy Goes to War, a play that travels back in time to the First World War era. The show highlights the brutality and […]
Spiders like Ralph Waldo Emerson’s face. They have built a sprawling, spreading web in his left eye. That is not the only problem at something called the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, which a preservation-minded group is putting on its annual list of “at-risk landscapes.” The group, the Cultural Landscape Foundation, says “water damage, […]
Marvin Schneider, 79, flashed his New York City employee identification badge — “clock repairer” — and walked into City Hall in Lower Manhattan on Friday morning. The end of daylight saving time was approaching — clocks are supposed to be turned back Sunday at 2 a.m. — and Mr. Schneider had gone to City Hall […]
From his perch, riding through Brooklyn on a black bicycle, Peter Ciaccia noticed things that only someone with his experience and, more to the point, his responsibilities, would notice. A dumpster needed to be moved from 94th Street in Bay Ridge. Dedicated “no parking” signs were not up yet, and he wondered when they would […]
Nearly 9,000 Quebec households are without electricity Sunday morning, after strong wings knocked out power lines across the province. Power has been progressively restored overnight, according to Hydro-Québec. At its peak on Saturday night, the outage affected 35,000 households. The regions that are currently the most affected are the Chaudière-Appalaches, Estrie and Gaspésie – Îles-de-la-Madeleine. In […]
Updated Nov. 4, 2018 By Tanner Curtis Months of rallying, handshaking and sign-waving are reaching an apex as the 2018 midterm elections conclude on Tuesday. At stake: control of the House of Representatives, the Senate and 36 governor’s mansions. The results could also influence the remaining two years of President Trump’s term. New York Times […]
Hospitals are often thought of as the hubs of our health care system. But hospital closings are rising, particularly in some communities. “Options are dwindling for many rural families, and remote communities are hardest hit,” said Katy Kozhimannil, an associate professor and health researcher at the University of Minnesota. Beyond the potential health consequences for […]
A Senate inquiry faulted state and federal oversight for fatal heat strokes and chaotic evacuations at nursing homes after last year’s hurricanes, calling for tougher disaster preparedness standards on Friday. Officials with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency that was a subject of the inquiry, have said they would clarify expectations […]
The actor Alec Baldwin, who won an Emmy for mocking President Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” was taken into custody outside his Manhattan apartment building on Friday after getting into a dispute about a parking space, the police said. Mr. Baldwin was issued a summons for misdemeanor assault and harassment. The police said that someone […]