Welcome friends to our weekly recap of stories you may have missed this holiday week. As always, I've included something to make you...

As 2018 starts to wind down, we will soon be inundated with the annual "look-back" pieces that tell us how terrible a year it was and how...

I'm sorry. We had no idea it would get this bad. Naming and renaming neighborhoods has been a thing here in NYC for quite some time,...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! May the day be filled with love, happiness, as few political arguments as possible and lots of turkey! Today...

He was a young, smart member of Congress who had relatively little national name recognition when he launched the campaign that would...

Yesterday, on the South Side of Chicago, Juan Lopez and Dr. Tamara O'Neal stood outside Mercy Hospital arguing. The confrontation turned...

From time to time, traveling on the subway can feel like a game of roulette. Is this the day I get stuck underground for hours? Or, my...

Ok, friends. Let's try something new. Each Sunday, I am going to use this little piece of online real estate to offer up some short items...

I have been involved in politics for most of my life. Thanks to my father's leadership in the Puerto Rican community here in New York...

We all expect winter to dump some snow on us from time to time. We just don't ever expect the unpreparedness of others to pile on. New...

The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) is in serious trouble. The severity of what is to come for the MTA, its ever-diminishing...

News of more politicians jumping into the Amazon HQ2 fray today overshadowed another major development that will impact the lives of many...

Two days ago, I wrote about Amazon's sham HQ2 competition and what the cost to taxpayers could be. Yesterday, Amazon confirmed that Long...

I spent the summer of 1985 in Florida with my aunt, uncle and cousins. It was a memorable few months. I grew four inches and was away...

The Amazon HQ2 "competition" is finally over. Jeff Bezos' national ego ... um ... campaign to see what kind of sweetheart deal he could...

I had grand plans for today. I was going to get a lot of work done. Check things off my to-do list. Complete my #30DayWritingChallenge...

I can't keep up, can you? It feels like each day now brings a week's worth of news. I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure it didn't...

Ok, friends, this is going to be close. Thanks to a lengthy work day, I am just now getting to my #30DayWritingChallenge piece. With less...

Welcome to the Midterms, Day 2, as major races for Governor and U.S. Senate remain undecided or headed to recounts. Instant hot takes...

We have a long day of GOTV, voting and Twitter tracking ahead before we know who won what, where and how. To keep you entertained while...