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Upstate NY school board president resigns after Capitol riot comments on Facebook Updated Jan 13, 2021; Facebook Share An Upstate New York school board president has resigned after making false comments about the U.S. Capitol riot on Facebook. “While I certainly don’t agree with what went on in the Capital today, it is notable that the protesters are leaving peacefully, nothing is burning, no cars of innocent people have been targeted, no businesses have been looted, and no police are being spit on. Just my observations,” wrote Trumansburg Central School District Board of Education Pre...

3 months ago Carroll O’Connor. Archie Bunker. As far as the television audience is concerned, they’re one and the same — at least visually, though obviously not in character. But what audiences have likely forgotten in their enjoyment of All in the Family over these past 50 years is the fact that Carroll had a life and career pretty far-removed from the Bunkers’ Queens, New York living room. “I had no ambition to be an actor,” he admitted in 1972. “I wanted to have a permanent job as a professor of European history at some university. I thought on the side I’d write a histori...

Don’t expect an antitrust dividend for the media “We need to admit news publishers are not sympathetic victims losing an unfair fight against anti-competitive practices — at least not now.” All signs point to big tech beginning to get its comeuppance in the U.S. in 2021, perhaps with news publishers benefiting from the smackdown. The U.S. seems more ready than ever before to bring the gauntlet down on Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Facebook’s impending lawsuit brought by the FTC and 48 state attorneys general is a win, and should be celebrated as such — regardless of what ha...