By Samantha Burgio At schools in New York full of students from different parts of the state and different states altogether, conversations and debates of “upstate New York vs. downstate New York” are never scarce. People who do not know… Read More ›
By Patrick Giblin Similarly, on Oct. 30, 2001, about a month and a half after 9/11, the New York Yankees were hosts to the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 3 of the World Series, the first game of the series… Read More ›
By David Kassnoff This week brought news of mandatory furloughs of a week or more at many daily newspapers. This translates to fewer editors, reporters, news photographers, and content coaches. It’s easy to blame the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic… Read More ›
By Madeline Edwards When I covered a story for SBU-TV about the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in early February, I never thought the world would turn into what it is now. In a month’s time the coronavirus went from being… Read More ›
By Richard Lee The future David Byrne envisioned in the Talking Heads’ 1979 song “Life During Wartime” seems very real today amid the coronavirus pandemic. As Jim Beviglia wrote in American Songwriter: “The urgency and immediacy of the band’s performance… Read More ›
By Joe Ceraulo For the third straight week, a Tuesday filled with primary elections came up big for former Vice President Joe Biden. Three states (Arizona, Florida and Illinois) held primary elections on Tuesday, March 17, after Ohio opted to… Read More ›
By Julia Schneider Online school, take-out only restaurants, no sports, yet somehow the primaries in three states still prevailed. Following the precedent set by the flu pandemic of 1918 and World War II, voters in Illinois, Florida and Arizona defied… Read More ›
By Michael Shapiro Many of us never conceived of the world in which we are living today — a world under siege from a global pandemic. In times of profound fear and uncertainty, misinformation can run rampant. Having accurate information… Read More ›
While it is abundantly clear that the novel coronavirus is a global epidemic requiring the collaboration of health departments across the world to contain, one group, Asians, seems to be taking all the blame. A combination of misinformation and the… Read More ›
By Richard Lee At a journalism conference I attended a few years ago, a speaker made an interesting observation about Battlestar Galactica, a science fiction television series that suddenly seems more pertinent today than when it aired. In the series,… Read More ›
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