The Harikrishna Center, Sri Sri Krishna Balarama Mandir is holding its Ratha Yatra Parade August 27.
The event kicks off at 1 pm Saturday. Temple website.
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The new State Senate 15 district excludes the entire Rockaway Peninsula, Broad Channel, Kew Gardens Hills, and most of Howard Beach, Maspeth and Ridgewood.
Should I be elected, I will help those in the old district especially if you are registered Republican! Old Map. New Map. General Election Addabbo Sullivan November 3, 2020 68,829 44,724 November 6, 2018 46,968 26,281
Catalina cleans Legion Triangle section of Rockaway Boulevard and Eldert Lane
“This is not my house,” she said with a smile.
“The Constitution does not prohibit legislatures from enacting stupid laws.”
Quote from Chief Justice John Paul Stevens recalling remark from Justice Thurgood Marshall in the New York State Board of Elections, et. al., PETITIONERS v. Margarita Lopez Torres et al. 552 U.S. (2008) case. 15 years later, stupid laws in nominating candidates for open seats in the Supreme Court continues.
Get a haircut, shoe repaired or watch battery changed from Ruben’s at 86-44 121 St., Richmond Hill
Jacob immigrated from the Soviet Union with his family in the 1990s. Business from his watch and shoe repair/barber shop has taken a hit since COVID. Stop by to listen or share old Soviet stories. He may even share some nostalgic photographs during his years as a photographer and in the military.
Who’s on first? Jackie Robinson (April 15, 1947); Moses Fleetwood Walker (May 1, 1884)
At age 28, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. On May 1, 1884, Moses Fleetwood Walker, 26, debuted in a Major League Baseball game with the Toledo Blue Stockings as a barehanded catcher.
12.5% of the entire African-American population according to the 1860 census were “free”.
Most people assume that every black American who lived in the US before 1870 was a slave. That is simply not true thanks to Dennis Richmond, Jr. who researched his family history. In 1860, three years before the Emancipation Proclamation, The United States Federal Census Schedule reported 488,070 free black Americans. True, many might say quasi-free, since these African Americans … Read more
S8202 Statewide Database of Voting and Election Data needs to go further.
Modernize and standardize. Allow full spelling of middle name, hypen, apostrophe, caps, case-sensitivity, nickname, and 2-byte names. Also, voters should be able to self-correct address changes and party registration online. Update: July 6, 2022. Judicial Watch sues New York after New York City Board of Elections failed to clean voter rolls for years.
