After East Coast Blizzard, the Cleanup and the Workweek Begin
Bounded by mountains of snow and slush-covered roads and sidewalks, millions of people along the Eastern Seaboard slogged to work on Monday morning, one day after one of the biggest blizzards ever recorded swept through the region, dumping more than two feet of snow in many cities. While New York City emerged from the season’s first blizzard with relatively little damage, the toll along the Eastern Seaboard as a whole was more sobering: 29 deaths related to the storm, thousands of homes withou..>> view originalNew York City's Promising Step on Criminal Justice
Photo Credit Richard Perry/The New York Times The New York City Council is poised to take what could be a step toward a fairer and smarter criminal justice system. A package of bills to be introduced on Monday seeks to resolve an old impasse over how to deter minor lawbreaking without punishing too many people unjustly.The bills focus on so-called quality of life offenses — things like littering, urinating and drinking alcohol in public, being too noisy and violating ..>> view originalOver 200 Educators in New York Receive Erroneous Scores Linked ...
More than 200 teachers and principals received erroneous scores from New York State on a contentious measurement that ties their performance to how well their students do on tests, according to state documents obtained by The New York Times.The error, which affected a small percentage of scores for the 2014-15 academic year, could be another blow to the practice of linking educator performance to student exams, a system that has come under fire in recent years.A letter sent to district superint..>> view originalResidents Struggle With Morning Commute After Historic Blizzard
The region continues to dig out from the weekend's historic blizzard, some residents fighting unplowed streets and massive snow mounds along with mass transit delays left in the wake of the storm that dumped nearly 3 feet of powder on some parts of the region. Thousands of commuters trudged out in galoshes and snow boots, ready to muck through piles of snow and slush Monday morning after spending the weekend cooped up amid the blizzard that went down as the second-snowiest storm in New York Ci..>> view originalShutting Down Aboveground Subway Service in New York, and ...
Photo Passengers waited for an L train at the Broadway Junction station in Brooklyn on Saturday before the stop was shut down. Credit Victor J. Blue for The New York Times For many New Yorkers, riding the subway is an underground experience, calling to mind dark tunnels and fluorescent-lit stations. But the blizzard over the weekend was a reminder of just how much of the system runs aboveground. With the announcement on Saturday that all of the outdoor stretches of t..>> view originalNew York Gets Back on Track After Storm, Washington Slower
New York and New Jersey restored transportation services on Sunday and strove to be ready for a near-normal workweek, while Washington struggled to overcome the blizzard that blanketed parts of the Mid-Atlantic region with two feet of snow.Stock, bond, and commodities markets in New York are planning to operate on regular schedules Monday, spokeswomen said. Federal offices in Washington will be closed on Monday, the Office of Personnel Management said. The House of Representatives canceled all ..>> view originalVIDEO: Filmmaker snowboards through NYC streets to 'New York ...
Most Popular VIDEO: Filmmaker snowboards through NYC streets to 'New York, New York' (KMSP) - Filmmaker Casey Neistat, 34, is blowing up the Internet with a video he posted Sunday snowboarding through New York City to the classic Frank Sinatra tune, "New York, New York."In less than a day, the video has reached over a million views on YouTube and Facebook.It starts with a news clip of Mayor Bill de Blasio warning drivers to get off the streets, and ends with Neistat's crew being pulled o..>> view originalDonald Trump Goes Rogue
I used to think 2015 was bad but that was before the first few weeks of 2016. It’s still January and Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican nomination, has already said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, O.K.?” The really scary part — without getting into what this line of thinking might presage in terms of Trump’s actions if he ever got to the Oval Office — is he could be right. Teflon Trump: nothing sticks.People ..>> view originalMartial law declared in New York City
Print Text smaller Text bigger It’s the nagging fear many have about our government: what would happen if martial law was declared? New York City just found out, at least temporarily. Eleven states as well as Washington D.C. declared states of emergency in the wake of the massive record-breaking snowstorm which blanketed the East. But New York City went a step further. Governor Andrew Cuomo declared martial law in New York City by ordering all people to stay inside under police enforce..>> view originalSnowzilla makes history from Northern Virginia to New York
See views from above Northern Virginia a day after the area saw 29.3 inches of snowfall reported at Dulles International Airport. (Whitney Shefte/The Washington Post) From Washington, D.C. to New York, and places in between, the storm named Snowzilla challenged and broke a slew of long-standing records. A huge area received at least 20 inches of snow from central Virginia to New York City. The map below, created by Brendan Hebertson of weather5280, a weather website for the Denver region,..>> view original
Monday, January 25, 2016
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