New York Today: A Sweet Sleep for Winter
Photo Hey, when can I get one of those cones again? Credit Michael Nagle for The New York Times Updated, 9:48 a.m. Good morning on this blustery Thursday.It’s called the ice cream hibernation.It comes when the roughly 250 Mister Softee trucks that swarm the five boroughs with their music-box jingles and their cones, sundaes and shakes vanish in October.“It’s a relatively seasonable business in New York,” Jim Conway, vice president of Mister Softee, said of his trade...>> view originalNew York City's Crusade Against Sodium
A judge ruled that New York City could go ahead with its first-in-the-nation initiative requiring all restaurants with 15 or more national locations to place a salt-shaker icon on menus beside items that contain 2,300 milligrams of sodium or more, the recommended daily allowance. The regulation, which had been challenged in court by the National Restaurant Association, was given the green light on Wednesday.Biohazard? (NYCDOH)“If your meal has so much sodium that it merits a salt shaker on the m..>> view originalYour Thursday Briefing: iPhone, Severe Weather, Academy Awards
Photo Storm damage in Appomattox County in Virginia on Wednesday. Credit Jill Nance/The News & Advance, via Associated Press (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning.Here’s what you need to know:• Apple doubles down.Apple engineers are developing new security measures that would make it harder for the government to break into a locked iPhone.The company’s lawyers are preparing to submit a formal response to a court order that it help the..>> view originalStrong Winds Knock Down Trees, Cut Power; De Blasio Issues ...
UPDATED 02/25/16 12:21 a.m. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — High winds brought down trees, caused accidents, knocked out power and even caused buildings to collapse around the Tri-State Area late Wednesday. The severe weather prompted Mayor Bill de Blasio to issue a travel advisory through early Thursday morning for New York City. A tornado watch was finally called off just after midnight for Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex and Warren counties in northern New Jersey, according to the Nat..>> view originalPOLITICO New York's Public Law Report: Rikers closure problems ...
Welcome to POLITICO’s Public Law Report, a twice-a-week digest of news on courts and the law in New York.LOCKDOWN — Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark shared a stage with Correction Officers Benevolent Association president Norman Seabrook at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network this week. The topic was Rikers Island — specifically recent calls to close it.Clark’s office confirmed her stance Wednesday: Whatever changes could potentially come are so far off that there’s little reason..>> view originalBronx Rabbi Who Had Sauna Chats Is Quitting
Photo Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt Credit David Goldman for The New York Times The prominent senior rabbi of a Bronx synagogue who drew scrutiny for having naked sauna chats with boys as young as 12 is stepping down. The rabbi, Jonathan Rosenblatt, had fought hard to keep his job at the Riverdale Jewish Center after the publication of an article in The New York Times in May describing the sauna sessions, and many congregants rallied to his defense.But hundreds of other ..>> view originalTracking a Parasite That Turns Bees Into Zombies
Photo A female parasitic Apocephalus borealis fly about to infect a honey bee with its eggs. Credit Christopher Quock Call it “The Buzzing Dead.” Infestations of what scientists have dubbed “zombie bees” have spread across both the West and East coasts in recent years.The honeybee hordes, while not actually undead, are the unwilling hosts to a parasite infection that researchers think drives the drones to act erratically, or “zombielike,” in the moments before they di..>> view originalGirl Scouts Face Opposition From St. Louis Archbishop
Photo Archbishop Robert J. Carlson at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis in 2010. He said the Girl Scouts organization was “exhibiting a troubling pattern of behavior.” Credit Wikimedia Commons The Archdiocese of St. Louis is encouraging Roman Catholics to scale back ties with the Girl Scouts, advising church members to think twice about membership and even about buying their cookies. The warnings came in a letter from Archbishop Robert J. Carlson and in a stateme..>> view originalNew York Times columnist tweets joke about killing Trump
A New York Times columnist tweeted a joke about assassinating GOP front-runner Donald Trump — and then deleted the message and apologized. The 1983 Paramount Pictures film “The Dead Zone” Ross Douthat tweeted Wednesday night, “Good news guys I’ve figured out how the Trump campaign ends” along with a clip from a little-known movie, “The Dead Zone.” In the 1983 flick, Christopher Walken plays a man who can see the future and knows that a US Senate candidate, portrayed by Martin Sheen, will eventu..>> view originalOnce a Coup, Energy Transfer Deal Becomes a Nightmare
The messy merger highlights the fallout from the steep drop in the price of oil and natural gas. Consumers are benefiting from inexpensive gasoline, but the record-low prices are causing severe pain radiating from the Texas Panhandle to Wall Street.The low prices combined with high levels of debt could push 175 global exploration and production companies – more than a third of the industry – into bankruptcy, according to a report by the consulting firm Deloitte. Oil giants like Royal Dutch ..>> view original
Thursday, February 25, 2016
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