Author: Angel - NYC

Wall Street Journal – by Eliot Brown

The owners of the tallest tower at the World Trade Center are cutting office rents just months before it opens because of slow leasing activity.

Only one private tenant has signed a lease at One World Trade Center in nearly three years: a one-floor deal with advertising firm Kids Creative that was signed last week. The 3.1-million-square-foot skyscraper, formerly named the Freedom Tower, is 55% leased.   Continue reading “Office Rents Cut at One World Trade”

CBS New York

HOBOKEN, N.J.(CBSNewYork) — If you are looking for organic milk you may find that these days it’s a little bit harder to come by.

As CBS 2′s Elise Finch reported, organic suppliers are having a hard time meeting demand, and for some people when it comes to milk organic is the only way to go.

“I would stop drinking milk altogether rather than go to more conventional milk,” Hoboken resident Athena Sapir said, “I feel better knowing what I’m putting in my body and that it is organic as opposed to full of antibiotics and things like that.”   Continue reading “Suppliers Struggle To Meet Demand For Popular Organic Milk”

Huffington Post – by Matt Ferner

The magical ”weed fairy” is back. This time she’s landed in Seattle where she’s giving away free pinches of marijuana to try and help “keep spirits high” in the Emerald City.

Residents began seeing flyers taped to street poles around Seattle’s Capital Hill area last week with this uplifting message: “These are tough times, take this weed, and keep your spirits high” — along with the weed fairy’s Twitter handle and a small amount of cannabis:   Continue reading “The ‘Weed Fairy’ Is Back, Now Leaving Free Pot Around Seattle”

Huffington Post – by Melissa Jeltsen

A bar in Plano, Texas, is under fire after an employee scribbled a domestic violence “joke” onto a chalkboard at the establishment.

The joke read: “I like my beer like I like my violence. Domestic.”

Courtney Williams, who was at the bar, Scruffy Duffies, on Saturday night, posted a photo of the offending sign on the Facebook page of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. The image quickly spread across the Internet.   Continue reading “Texas Bar Criticized For Posting Domestic Violence ‘Joke’”

New York Post – by David K. Li

California killer Elliot Rodger blamed his violent misogyny on a pretty former childhood pal who went on to become his vision of all “mean, cruel and heartless” women.

Rodger became obsessed with the fellow British ex-pat and now-model, who was in seventh grade while he was eighth in the same California private school, according to his chilling manifesto.   Continue reading “The woman the killer blamed his misogyny on”

Social Justice Solution – by Justin Nutt

A gunman went on a drive by shooting spree on the night of Friday, May 23, 2014 at the University of Santa Barbara campus. These shootings left 7 people dead and another 8 injured. Many media outlets say that the answer to this is gun control; that banning guns, and changing the regulations connected to gun ownership, is the key.  This is also often the focus when it comes to school shootings as well, the gun not the mental health of the gunman.

Two items are of concern when it comes to this idea as the answer to prevention of events such as these.   Continue reading “UC Santa Barbra School Shooting: Mental Health vs. Gun Control”

Ad Week – by Kristina Monllos

The debate around gun violence in America has long been heated (and will likely be even more so after this weekend’s deadly rampage in Isla Vista, Calif. and the multiple shooting deaths in Myrtle Beach, N.C.), but ongoing efforts by new advocacy groups that came out of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings are hoping to change the conversation.

The nonprofits, which include Sandy Hook Promise, Evolve and Everytown for Gun Safety—a coalition funded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg—have all recently come out with novel campaigns.   Continue reading “New Ads Take On Gun Control Spots aim to hit their mark”

Examiner – by Dave Workman

The aftermath of Friday night’s murder spree in California could provide a serious setback for gun prohibitionists now trying to pander Golden State-style laws around the country, including the so-called “universal background check” (UBC) that alleged killer Elliot Rodger passed to purchase three handguns legally at retail, a detail now appearing in Sunday’s updated report in the Seattle Times.   Continue reading “Isla Vista shooting lays bare gun control failures”

Yahoo News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A wildfire chewing through the forest of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula has expanded in size, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of 1,000 structures, officials said.

The massive fire south of Anchorage covered nearly 243 square miles and was 30 percent contained, according to a posting Sunday night on the Alaska Interagency Incident Management Team’s Facebook page. It was burning in the 1.9 million-acre Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.   Continue reading “Area evacuated as Alaska wildfire grows”

New York Post – by Josh Kosman

The collapse of a giant Texas utility is bringing out the inner vulture of private-equity mogul David Rubenstein.

Rubenstein’s Carlyle Group, through its Claren Road hedge fund, snapped up debt in Energy Future Holdings’ Texas Competitive power plants at a steep discount before it went bust last month — hoping to make money when the restructuring played out, sources said.   Continue reading “Rubenstein’s Carlyle Group buys Texas Competitive debt”

New York Post – by Maureen Callahan

When David Good was a kid, and his friends asked where his mother was, he’d always say the same thing: She died in a car crash.

His dad, Ken, couldn’t understand: “I’d say, ‘Why don’t you just say your mom’s Venezuelan, and your parents are divorced? It’s so common.’ ”“I experimented with responses, and I found that the most effective,” David says. “I could see the horror in their faces” — he laughs — “and there would be no more questions.”   Continue reading “US man finds lost mother in Amazon tribe”

AOL – by Caroline Moss

What can’t money buy?

A service called Rent-A-Gent lets women choose a male companion from a list of “smart and handsome men.”

For $200 bucks an hour, men can serve as handymen, dates, or personal chefs. Continue reading “Women Are Using ‘Rent-A-Gent’ To Hire Men To Do Chores And Go On Dates”

Redlands Daily Facts – by Brenda Gazzar

Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s and federal ATF officials served a search warrant and searched the premises of the West Hills home of the mother of the young man who went on a shooting rampage that left six people dead and 13 injured Friday night in Isla Vista, a college town near Santa Barbara.

Officials brought out one blue box after searching the home of Lichin Rodger, who goes by the name Chin Rodger, for more than an hour but declined to comment on its contents.   Continue reading “Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department, ATF search homes of suspect Elliot Rodger’s parents”

CBS News – by REBECCA KAPLAN

New York Daily News – by Doyle Murphy

The deranged 22-year-old behind a Santa Barbara killing spree fantasized about a global takeover, a friend says.

After watching the movie “Chronicle” with a group of friends, Elliot Rodger announced he wanted to “dominate the world,” friend Andi Chan told ABC News.

“We all thought he was insane, but we were used to it,” Chan said in the interview. “Maybe in his mind he really wanted to do that.”   Continue reading “Friend: Santa Barbara killer Elliot Rodger wanted to ‘dominate the world’”