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David M. Shribman: Presidents Day salutes nation’s remarkable leaders David M. Shribman © Provided by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette One of them campaigned for income supplements for veterans of the American Revolution. Another came into prominence for vetoing an inflated street-cleaning contract in Buffalo. A third boasted of not being a Caesar or a Napoleon but a “plain Hoosier colonel, with no more relish for a fight than for a good breakfast and hardly so much.” Happy Presidents Day. And a brisk salute for three chief executives seldom held in high regard: James Buchanan,...

Opinions | The commonality between Biden’s education secretary and Betsy DeVos is a warning Adam Laats Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona, President Biden's nominee to be U.S. secretary of education, speaks during a news conference at the Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., on Dec. 23, 2020. (Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post) A world of difference separates President Biden’s nominee for secretary of education from the previous secretary, Betsy DeVos. DeVos infamously proved herself unaware of and even largely uninterested in the realities of publi...

January 26, 2021 PULLMAN, Wash. –  Four of the nation’s leading experts on constitutional democracy will discuss current crises in the U.S. and abroad in a series of free, online events beginning Wednesday, Feb. 16. The noon-hour events are hosted by the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public and Public Service at Washington State University, whose mission is to educate the public about American government and democratic institutions, encourage public service and to promote scholarly research on public policy and political institutions. “In recent years hyper-partisanship and polarizati...

  1840 (dated)         1 : 20000 Description This is an example of David Burr's rare 1840 map of Manhattan, New York City. Burr's map is one of the earliest maps focused specifically on Manhattan to illustrate the entire island. Oriented to the northeast, the map roughly follows the layout and design of the 1811 Commissioner's Plan, wherein the geography of the island is sublimated by the city's iconic street grid. Burr's more commercial map also extends the coverage further east and west, to accommodate, Brooklyn, Bushwick, Williamsburg, Hoboken, and Jersey City. Publication Histo...

NorthJersey.com New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo did not hold back in his grandiose unveiling of his vision for a $306 billion statewide infrastructure plan during his State of the State address Thursday, invoking Shakespeare, Mark Twain and former state Govs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and DeWitt Clinton of New Deal and Erie Canal fame, respectively. But he did hold back details, opting instead to broadly reiterate in his fourth State of the State speech this week that New York will climb out of this pandemic and its economic fallout by "building bigger and better and laying the foundation for ou...