Author: Angel - NYC

Huffington Post – by Dave Jamieson

WASHINGTON — Minimum wage workers in a handful of states will be ringing in the new year with an automatic pay raise.

As Congress considers legislation that would boost the federal minimum wage, at least 13 states will be raising the wage floor on their own next week. They’re led once again by Washington state, which will continue to have the highest state minimum wage in the nation, at $9.32 per hour.   Continue reading “13 States Will Raise Their Minimum Wage For The New Year”

AmmoLand – by Darren Wolfe

“…whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain — that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.” – Lysander Spooner, No Treason, NO. VI., The Constitution Of No Authority   Continue reading “Democratic Socialism, Guns, and the Failure of the Constitution”

AmmoLand –  by Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- In an article from wnem.com, when a Michigan school volunteer asked if she could open carry a handgun at the school, the school was put into “Modified Lockdown“.

The article does not say that she was openly carrying a handgun or if she was carrying concealed, either of which were likely legal (depending on the intricacies of Michigan law) only that she asked that the school allow her to do so.   Continue reading “MI: Legal Gun Carry, Ask a Question, Lockdown a School”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Six military veterans from across Long Island received keys Thursday to new homes that were built just for them on a big discount.

The homes in Islandia were built by the Long Island Home Builders Care Development Corp. specifically for returning veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.    Continue reading “Veterans Get Keys To Discounted Homes On Long Island”

Dallas News – by Robert Wilonsky

A few days ago a friend forwarded the missive you see here, a note sent from a student to a West Mesquite High School teacher named Jennifer Davis. He was passing it along, said this friend, because he thought it was “pretty cool,” a touching thank-you that became its own little gift at this most wonderful time of the year.

Davis has given us permission to share it with the OK of her Algebra I student, 16-year-old Shayla Godbey. Says Davis, what made this missive most unexpected was its author: “Like she says,” Davis offers, “she’s not my most talkative of students.”   Continue reading “Read the thank-you note from a student that gave a West Mesquite High School teacher goosebumps”

AOL

CAIVANO, Italy (AP) – On Ciro Fusco’s farm in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, police swooped down one recent day and planted a warning sign in his broccoli fields, prohibiting any one from harvesting or even setting foot on the plot. Dozens of other fields in the area were sequestered in the same way. Decades of toxic waste dumping by the Camorra crime syndicate that dominates the Naples area poisoned wells, authorities have found in recent months, tainting the water that irrigates crops with high levels of lead, arsenic and the industrial solvent tetrachloride.   Continue reading “Mafia toxic waste dumping poisons Italy farmlands”

Daily Mail – by Emma Thomas

A group of wildlife watchers scan the open ocean for activity – as a huge whale drifts just below them.

These amazing images show a 50-tonne southern right whale and its calves swim within touching distance of a small tourist vessel and its crew.

The massive mammal dwarfs the boat and could easily crush it with one swipe of its 15ft tail.   Continue reading “We’re going to need a bigger boat! Breathtaking pictures show 50-tonne whale and calves swimming underneath vessel”

BBC News

The theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue was packed for a performance of the Curious Incident Of The Dog in the Night-time.

An eyewitness said she heard “a crackling” noise before the collapse at about 20:15 GMT. Another eyewitness said the “entire dome roof” fell on audience members seated in the stalls.

London Ambulance said there were 30 casualties including walking wounded.   Continue reading “London’s Apollo Theatre’s roof collapses”

Huffington Post – by Hilary Hanson

Doing a handstand should be no problem for this guy.

A Chinese man had his right hand grafted to his ankle for more than a month following an an accident.

Xiao Wei, of China’s Hunan province, severed the hand at work in November, the Metro reported. His co-workers were able to retrieve the hand, which doctors said they would be able to reattach — just not immediately.   Continue reading “Hand Attached To Ankle In Emergency Procedure In China”

Reuters – by JAMES PEARSON

Retired basketball star Dennis Rodman will return to North Korea for a third time on Thursday, despite political tension surrounding the execution of leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle, trip organizers said.

“It’s certainly safe, even when there is a bit of disruption like there is now – a bit of trouble or chaos – there’s even more need for cultural or sporting exchanges,” said Rory Scott, a spokesman for Irish bookmakers Paddy Power (PAP.I), which has arranged the trip.   Continue reading “Dennis Rodman back to N.Korea despite political tension”

ABC News – by CHRIS TALBOTT and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press

Good friends like Willie Nelson and Merle haggard got more credit for their contrary ways and trend-setting ideas, but it was Ray Price who set the precedent for change in country music more than a decade earlier.

Price passed away Monday at his Texas home, having long outlasted most of his country music contemporaries and the prognosis doctors gave him when they discovered his pancreatic cancer in 2011. He was 87.   Continue reading “Influential Country Singer Ray Price Dead at 87”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Library supporters dressed in cardboard costumes of their favorite books Monday to protest plans to renovate the New York Public Library’s main branch and sell the popular Mid-Manhattan branch.

As WCBS 880′s Monica Miller reported, members of the Library Lovers League, who demonstrated on the steps of the main branch, wanted to remind Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio about his campaign promise to scrap the projects.   Continue reading “Protesters: Close The Book On Plans To Renovate, Sell Library Branches”

The Wall Street Journal – by LISA FLEISHER

A group of New York City parents are trying to prevent public schools from sending children who have severe temper tantrums to the emergency room against their parents’ wishes.

The hospital trips can leave parents with costly medical bills, and parents often have to leave work early to pick up their children. Advocates for children with special needs say a solution would be for schools have better trained therapists and educators.   Continue reading “Parents Protest Emergency Calls”

Pew States – by Daniel C. Vock

Researchers say they have found a way to get trucks off clogged New York City streets during the busiest parts of the day, and they are hoping to use the same approach soon in other U.S. cities.

A two-year experiment that paid customers, such as shops and restaurants, to receive their supplies at night worked better at changing truck delivery times than previous attempts to discourage daytime deliveries by raising tolls during peak hours, said lead researcher, Jose Holguin-Veras, a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.   Continue reading “Nighttime Delivery Offers Promise to Truckers in New York—and Elsewhere”

New York Times – by MICHAEL BARBARO

Michael R. Bloomberg, determined to parlay his government experience and vast fortune into a kind of global mayoralty, is creating a high-powered consulting group to help him reshape cities around the world long after he leaves office.

To build the new organization, paid for out of his own pocket, the billionaire mayor is taking much of his City Hall team with him: He has already hired many of his best-known and longest-serving deputies, promising them a chance to export the policies they developed in New York to far-flung places like Louisville, Ky., and Mexico City.   Continue reading “Bloomberg Focuses on Rest (as in Rest of the World)”

New York Post – by Mary Kay Linge

Last week the city Board of Health voted to force annual flu vaccinations on all babies and children under age 5 who attend day-care centers and preschool programs. Here, Sophia Ling, mother of 3-year-old Oona and a fitness instructor in Staten Island, tells The Post’s Mary Kay Linge how the risks of the shot outweigh the benefits — and wants nannying bureaucrats to stop trampling parents’ rights.

When I first heard about the new flu vaccine rule, I was upset but not surprised. The Board of Health did this so quietly, with no input from parents of young children. The unanimous vote was cast before New Yorkers had any chance to protest.   Continue reading “Take your mandatory flu shot and shove it!”