Month: <span>December 2011</span>

It’s no secret that American newspapers have been on a sharp decline for the past few decades. Despite ample time for reflection and analysis, there is a remarkable lack of understanding among reporters as to why their profession has reached the brink of collapse. This year with his new book The Deal From Hell: How...

As if busy New Yorkers didn’t have enough to worry about this holiday season, an old nuisance is growing alarmingly commonplace. Opportunistic thieves are snatching purses and other items in the subway with increased frequency, often right out of owners’ hands. Subway theft is up 23 percent from this time last year, the NYPD has...

In the late afternoon of December 30, 2009, CIA officers at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan were getting ready to welcome Jordanian doctor-turned-double-agent, Humam Khalil al-Balawi, into their midst. Balawi was the CIA’s ‘golden source’; the ‘super-spy’ who had seemingly infiltrated the upper echelons of Al Qaeda and was now expected to relay important...

A World AIDS Day march tied to the Occupy Wall Street movement ended with police detaining and taking away at least eight protesters for blocking traffic in downtown Manhattan Thursday. The protesters, five of whom were chained together, were stretched across the entire length of Broadway in front of City Hall Park and dressed in...

Graffiti vandals have been striking at locations all over the Bay Ridge neighborhood, with lampposts, mailboxes, storefronts, etc. bearing the brunt of the onslaught, and the community frowns upon the attacks. In response, State Senator Marty Golden (R-Bay Ridge) has launched a new campaign using social media to clean up graffiti in Bay Ridge.