LONG ISLAND, NY - On Tuesday, September 19th 2017, a press conference was held at the historic Garden City Hotel, in Garden City New York to announce Long Island's grand premiere of Le Dîner en Blanc, a popular Parisian-style pop-up picnic characterized...
by Andrea Sears NEW YORK - The latest U.S. Census Bureau figures show little change in child poverty in New York state. The data shows that, nationally, more than 13 million children, or 18 percent, lived in poverty in 2016, a drop of almost two percent. But,...
by Andrea Sears NEW YORK - Hundreds rallied outside U.N. headquarters in New York City on Monday, calling on the Trump administration to extend Temporary Protected Status for thousands of immigrants. The rally coincided with the opening day of the General...
by Andrea Sears NEW YORK - Advocates for people with disabilities say the death of eight residents of a Florida nursing home that lost power shows the importance of better planning to help those with special needs during emergencies. Seniors and people...
(Long Island, NY) One year ago, high-school students Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas – two teenage girls from Brentwood, NY – were brutally murdered, victims of the growing trend of gang violence on Long Island. But while their killers were eventually...
by Andrea Sears PATCHOGUE, N.Y. - Every major bay and estuary across Long Island has been affected by harmful algal blooms this year, according to a new report. The annual water-quality assessment, released this week, says this year has been marked...
by Andrea Sears NEW YORK - A nationwide doctors' organization says the health-care bill introduced by Bernie Sanders would be a major step in the right direction. The senator from Vermont unveiled his Medicare for All program Wednesday. It would...
by Robert Golomb NEW YORK, NY - Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (NYS), Cory Booker (New Jersey) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) - all three currently viewed as viable and all but certain contenders for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination- might...
by Andrea Sears NEW YORK - More than a hundred health-care consumer, patient and provider groups are calling for congressional action to stabilize the health-insurance market. While the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act was narrowly defeated,...
by Andrea Sears NEW YORK - Within hours of the announcement that the Trump administration will end the DACA program, a challenge to that decision was filed in federal court. Lawyers from Make the Road New York, the National Immigration Law Center...
