There is more to your recent story. The MTA already has awarded contracts for $200 million to purchase and install a new bus radio system along with $150 million for purchase and installation of a new East New York Brooklyn bus command center. more

There are almost never simple solutions to complex challenges, and for this reason, a no vote on a constitutional convention is the only sensible choice for New Yorkers this November. more

The fifth-graders from P.S. 75 have written to our veterans. I have used lines from their letters to form one message out of many. more

President Trump claims to be a champion of religious liberty. Why, then, has neither he nor any one in his administration condemned the banning by Russia of the Jehovah’s Witness faith and practice? more

Recently, animal rights activists shut down the 146-year-old Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus after years of effectively exposing them for animal abuse. more

If employers will not have to provide medical insurance coverage for birth control if contraception is against their religion, would employers who are strict Christian Scientists be exempt from providing any health insurance for their employees, even if hundreds or thousands of people are on their payrolls, on the grounds that prayer is more effective than medical treatment in curing illness? more

A person with two DUI arrests, two drug arrests, or one of each, should positively lose his or her driver’s license. more

Brian Benjamin is not exactly a household name. At least not in this part of the Bronx. more

On Dec. 16 at city comptroller Scott Stringer’s town hall meeting in Riverdale, I addressed some of the issues associated with sidewalk sheds and how the installation of them is too often an unbridled business practice that needs proper remediation. more

I am very concerned with the transportation department’s proposed traffic plan for Broadway. This plan, while well intentioned, needs to be reviewed. more