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WAMCOn November 22nd, many Americans paused to remember the terrible tragedy on that day in Dallas in 1963. President John F. Kennedy was gunned down while his motorcade slowly rolled through Dealey Plaza. -
WAMCWomen’s flag football is likely entering its salad days. Not that tackle football isn’t fully in its prime, contrary to the once popular prediction of its inevitable demise.
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Maybe you don’t know what Grok is. No matter – according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, only 26 percent of Americans have heard of Grok. -
Capital Region - Last week I drew attention to several holiday events that would be easy to overlook. Not to neglect the traditional entertainments I’ll go over some of the bigger happenings, plus remind you of some of the smaller stuff. -
When you get married it doesn’t occur to you, at least it didn’t occur to me, you’re not just marrying your spouse but also your spouse’s family. Fortunately, I liked them and they seemed to like me.
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It’s a good time to be Lane Kiffin, the current head football coach at Ole Miss. That’s not just because his team is ranked seventh in the country and, barring a disaster against Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl, will be headed to the School’s first ever playoff appearance.
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There were two animating ideas to the Trump/MAGA campaign. They claimed that America was number 1 and should stay that way.
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New York spends billions of dollars on programs to spur economic activities. Yet the spending is hard to track because there is no standard definition of economic-development spending.
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A few weeks back, I visited Scotland for the first time, and just before traveling I learned that Scotland is actually my family’s homeland – well, it was, anyway, a very long time ago.
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This week is not only Thanksgiving, it’s also the start of the holiday season. There is an abundance of things to do between Thanksgiving and Christmas. So much so that many worthy events go under the radar and can easily be missed.
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The news has been all bad lately. I’m referring to the news about consuming alcohol. Turns out that many of those stories over the years about drinking in moderation being good for you were underwritten by the spirits industry. -
It was a matter of time—not that it made the news any easier to bear.Late last month, President Trump’s cruel immigration crackdown ensnared one of our members, a janitorial supervisor at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse who was taken into custody with his husband as they waited for their scheduled immigration hearing.
