Amtrak’s new Acela trains, called NextGen, are four years late arriving for passengers on the Boston-New York-Washington route, but still most Amtrak passengers on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) will never be able to use them. That can and must change and Amtrak should deploy the 28 new trainsets for all riders on their busiest line… Read More »
Eighty years ago today, on Sept. 2, 1945, on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, the Allied powers gathered to witness the surrender of Imperial Japan, ending World War II. Generals and admirals from the United States were joined by representatives from China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada,… Read More »
What is a New York City where working class people no longer can afford to live? What kind of identity, what type of soul, would that place have? Would it still glow with the restless energy with which we’ve always been defined by? Or would it recede in its absence? By relentlessly challenging the status… Read More »
This month, a family tragedy worth discovering Bloomington, Ind.: September is National Suicide Prevention Month. I wasn’t expecting to find a loose, folded note among the pages of an old family scrapbook. The dislodged piece of paper turned out to be a suicide note my paternal grandfather, Oral, had written to my grandmother and father… Read More »
With rosters expanding, the Yankees officially announced their expected September call-ups on Monday, activating Ryan Yarbrough and recalling J.C. Escarra. The left-handed Yarbrough, on the injured list with an oblique strain since June 22, will pitch out of the Yankees’ bullpen. A swingman throughout his career, the junk-baller initially worked in relief this season before thriving… Read More »
Dear Eric: My husband and son are both on the autism spectrum. We brought our son a sofa from IKEA and left it in his house. It needs to be assembled along with hanging curtains and installing the curtain rods. We are both 75. Our son works full time and is finishing up his master’s… Read More »
Former CNN political correspondent Charles Bierbauer is dead at 83. The cable network announced Sunday the death of the veteran newsman and former White House Correspondents’ Association president. Bierbauer primarily covered Washington for 20 years before leaving CNN in 2001. He went on to serve as the first dean of the University of South Carolina’s… Read More »
General Daily Insight for September 02, 2025 It’s the perfect day to get ourselves sorted. Mercury begins things by forming an ephemeral quincunx to Saturn, showing us a way forward — even if the road isn’t entirely clear at first. Fortunately, the road becomes much more visible when Mercury marches into Virgo at 9:23 am… Read More »
Bloody conflicts marred the West Indian Day Parade and J’Ouvert celebrations in Brooklyn on Monday — with four people shot and wounded, and one person slashed as the popular annual events wound down. The mayhem began with two people shot around 5:35 p.m. near Eastern Parkway and Utica Ave. in Crown Heights; one man in… Read More »
Nestlé has fired CEO Laurent Freixe because he had a romantic relationship with a direct subordinate, the company announced Monday. Freixe will be replaced by Philipp Navratil, who has worked at the food and drink company since 2001. Navratil was previously in charge of the company’s Nespresso division. “This was a necessary decision,” said Paul… Read More »