New York
Close race for Weiner’s Congress seat
September 13, 2011Democrats are making a last minute push today, the day of the special election in New York's 9th Congressional District, where the surprisingly embattled Democratic candidate David Weprin is predicted to lose Republican Bob Turner.
Read moreFire Fighters commemorate 9/11 with N.Y.-to-D.C. memorial ride
September 12, 2011The New York locals of the Fire Fighters, who lost 343 members and their priest on 9/11 2001, will commemorate their fallen colleagues with a 343-mile memorial bicycle ride.
Read moreMy 9/11: The smoke that preceded tragedy
September 9, 2011Perhaps most poignant are the perspectives of those for whom that era was a vital period in their growth: the youth of that decade.
Read moreBeep, honk: Verizon picketers get noisy support in upstate NY
August 12, 2011The sounds of support from passing drivers reached us before we got to the picket line in an industrial area of Syracuse on Thursday.
Read moreFrance bans fracking
July 1, 2011The French parliament voted to ban fracking - a worrisome technique used to extract gas from rock deposits.
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