WASHINGTON, DC —- February 18, 2019 — Congressman Eliot Engel, a member of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, and a record 190 House Democrats have reintroduced H.R. 1296, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, legislation that would ban the sale, manufacture, or possession of new military-style assault weapons. The bill, authored by Rep. David Cicilline and originally cosponsored …
Robert Kesten, Political Analyst, and Hezi Aris, Yonkers Tribune Editor-at-Large on Westchester On the Level – Tuesday, February 19, 2019th at 10am EST
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Twin Green New Deal Resolutions
ALYSSA PEREZ
Letter to the Editor THE BRONX, NY — February 17, 2019 — Climate change is happening now! As a young mother, I can’t let this be my son’s generation’s future. I simply can’t let them beat the brunt of changes we could be acting quickly to make now. I am an environmental science major and environmental studies minor at Queens …
ALYSSA PEREZ
The Two-Faced Women Who Hate Israel – and Jews
By Prof. PHYLLIS CHESLER
NEW YORK, NY — February 17, 2019 — Now that she has attacked Elliot Abrams, I wonder where Representative Ilhan Omar stands on the issue of Female Genital Mutilation(FGM) given that she is a Somali-American and the practice is pandemic among Somalis. No one has asked her about it publicly. I am asking her here. Many Westerners seem to believe that oppressed …
By Prof. PHYLLIS CHESLER
Cancelling Student Debt Is The Only Way Forward.
By KENNETH BELVIN
Almost 70% of students who graduated from high school in 2016 went on to attend college that same year. Starting college is a whirlwind experience for any young student. Many are away from home for the first time, pursuing a degree in a field that they want to spend the rest of their life working in. Your first day on …
By KENNETH BELVIN
President Donald Trump Declares a National Emergency to Secure Funding for a Border Wall
By HEZI ARIS
WASHINGTON, DC — February 15, 2019 — President Trump informed the public from the White House’s Rose Garden that, “We are going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border. I am going to be signing a national emergency … We are talking about an invasion of our country with drugs, with human traffickers, with all types of …
By HEZI ARIS
The Prophetic Ingathering and Final Rescue of Ethiopian Jews
By JONATHAN FELDSTEIN
I’ve been called many things in my life, but never black. Until recently. I was visiting with a friend who is a black pastor in Chicago and at one point he burst out “you must be half black.” He meant it as a compliment, and I received it as such. Since then he’s invited me to speak in his …
By JONATHAN FELDSTEIN
32BJ SEIU Responds to Budget Deal with no Back Pay
By HÉCTOR FIGUEROA
WASHINGTON, DC — February 14, 2019 — “We are deeply disappointed that a final deal did not include back pay for the thousands of federally-contracted workers who lost pay during President Trump’s ill-fated shutdown of 35 days. Despite promising back pay, Trump went back on his word and cruelly said he would refuse a deal that included back pay for …
By HÉCTOR FIGUEROA
Remembering Parkland
By SARA SETTEMBRINI
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY — February 14 will mark one year since the mass shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and educators were killed and 17 more were wounded. In the year since this unspeakable tragedy, Americans have come together to deliver a unified message to our elected leaders. Enough is enough. Students, parents, …
By SARA SETTEMBRINI
Stewart-Cousins’ and Heastie’s Need to Define Their Independence of Cuomo Vis-à-vis the Amazon HQ2 Inducement Will Exact Detrimental Consequences for the New York Metropolitan Area
By HEZI ARIS
The Not In My Back Yard Hezitorial YONKERS, NY — February 14, 2019 — Amazon representatives attended a hearing in Albany yesterday at which Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris was in attendance. His demeanor was judged by attendees to be combative and desirous for Amazon’s HQ2 to be undermined. Amazon HQ2 had initially intended to build a campus employing …
By HEZI ARIS