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New York Governor Cuomo's State of the State speeches last week included an ambitious proposal for a large-scale redevelopment project on Manhattan's west side, adjacent to Penn Station.

/ Its a stark contrast to what normally takes place during the initial round of committee hearings. As lawmakers gathered this week in Tallahassee, the scene in the Capitol was a stark departure from the typically convivial initial round of committee meetings in advance of the legislative session. The marbled halls of the Capitol building in downtown Tallahassee would typically be buzzing during the committee-meeting kickoff, as lobbyists rub elbows with legislators and aides while advocating f...

State legislators were back at the Capitol this week for substantive work for the first time since the pandemic began last March. The medical emergency has transformed the seat of state government.

Marked for Death (1990) with Steven Seagal (Reel Action) January 16, 2021 by: Above the Law, Seagal had two movies open to boffo box office in 1990. First there was Hard to Kill, which paired him with future wife Kelly LeBrock, while 1990s MARKED FOR DEATH, the only film he made away from Warner Bros in his heyday, was an even bigger cult success. To this day, its considered one of the pony-tailed ones greatest films, with it pairing him against a Rastafarian drug lord, memorably named Scre...

arrow Cuomo also wants to acquire the MSG Theater to create a new entrance to Penn Station on 8th Avenue. Governors Office Quoting Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday unveiled a wide-ranging infrastructure vision that he argued would not only improve rail, air, and bus travel but also save New York from economic depression and prepare it for the next century. His $306 billion-dollar plan focused on Midtown, and projects largely...

Each Friday, I look at what is happening in President-Elect Joe Biden’s transition to the White House. This week: Biden faces substantial obstacles in his bid to remake U.S. foreign policy after four years of America First.

THE number of blue facemasks littered on the streets of Swindon is causing anger.

TALLAHASSEE --- As lawmakers gathered this week in Tallahassee, the scene in the Capitol was a stark departure from the typically convivial initial round

Review: The Last Season, directed and choreographed by Danielle Micich, Force Majeure at Sydney Festival The only moment bodies touch in Force Majeure’s austere The Last Season comes like an urgent heartbeat. But an embrace between an adult and a child that ought to comfort appears to suffocate and smother, the larger body controlling the other like a puppet. This sinister touch feels all the more despairing in the context of a pandemic that prohibits tactile exchange, as if touch between pe...

LOCAL historian DR PAUL JENNINGS looks back at the drama society at Lister’s Mill - part of the immense range of social, cultural and sporting activities its thousands of workers enjoyed: The Dramatic Society made its debut in 1925 with Raffles but I begin with its 1933 production of A Lass from Lister’s, written by Herbert Wright and produced by Clara Wright. This musical comedy was largely based on the rise to fame of Pat Paterson, the Hollywood actress who was born in Bradford and ha...