Mentors matter to minority teens, especially now

Education remains a precious commodity, especially now when for many students, it’s balancing between learning inside a classroom and learning across the internet. 

Could police give up traffic patrols?

The do’s and don’ts of operating a vehicle is not an arcane topic. These traffic rules are common to nearly every street and interstate. But getting stopped by a police officer for typical moving violations like speeding or flaunting street signs can be a much different experience for those drivers — many times depending primarily on the color of their skin.

Nursing homes are buckling down for a new wave

With a change in seasons and a drop in infection rates, conversation around the coronavirus pandemic shifted over the summer. Where a traumatic spring of overflowing hospitals and hundreds of deaths a day in the city had kept focus on “flattening the curve” and reducing transmission, months of infection rates below 1 percent prompted conversations about the struggling restaurant industry, schools reopening, and vaccine development.

New York’s election experiment helps draw record numbers

For the first time in New York’s history, voters cast ballots early in a presidential race. And it’s a process that has become more eventful than anyone could have guessed.

THEN & NOW

Think crime is bad today? It was a lot worse in the 1970s

We’ve all heard it one time or another. “In my day, no one in the neighborhood locked their doors. Everybody knew everybody, and crime was just something no one had to worry about.” That could have been the life in Sheriff Andy Taylor’s fictional town of Mayberry. But in reality, gramps might have better luck selling the grandkids his story of marching to school uphill in 10 feet of snow.

Capital critical for small biz, but it might not be enough

Earning a line of credit with a bank can be critical to opening — and maintaining — small businesses as it gives them access to loans that could be used to keep the lights on, especially in the early years of an enterprise before they can actually turn a profit.

What's the big deal about children's author Ruby Shamir?

Election Day might’ve looked quite different this year, but its impact and consequences are largely the same. And Ruby Shamir wants to make sure young children across the country know it.

FIRST ONLINE

School campuses could close as early as Monday

Anyone experiencing whiplash from last March after seeing what appears to be another — and larger — wave of coronavirus cases throughout the country, they’re certainly not alone. But another first wave-era city policy could soon rear its ugly head: Fully remote learning.