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N.J. mayor weighs November re-election bid — when he’ll be 97 Updated Mar 15, 2021; Posted Mar 15, 2021 At 96, Mayor Vito Perillo is one of America's oldest mayors and is now contemplating whether to seek another 4-year term, which could set him up as a centenarian municipal chief executive. Tinton Falls,N.J. March 12, 2021 Facebook Share In the summer of 2017, when Vito Perillo was still just 92, he finally resolved to do something about Tinton Falls’ steadily increasing property taxes, a rise he had documented by saving every one of his tax bills since 1980, the year he retired as...

By early 1921 Britain’s war in Ireland was not just a moral issue, but a financial one. The sheer expense of solving 'The Irish Question', considering financial reparation for the loss of civilian life and destruction of private property, along with the price tag of the Crown Forces’ operations in Ireland, was staggering.

Whose Democracy? (Credit Image: © Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Wire) The Joe Biden/Kamala Harris Administration isn’t just another presidency. Well-meaning conservatives will have to realize that this regime does not represent them. Our nation is inseparable from race and culture, and the government on the Potomac is not our government. We can’t escape “American” politics, but we shouldn’t waste time thinking about Washington, DC. Instead, we must build something new. The new administration has a foundational myth: that Donald Trump was uniquely dangerous to “Our Democracy,” an aspiring aut...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- For the third time in as many decades, San Jose is weighing whether to remove a controversial statue of former mayor Thomas Fallon, which sits at the Western entrance to downtown and was commissioned by the former San Jose Redevelopment Agency in the late 1980s, before the city's current public art review process was put in place. The statue commemorates Fallon planting an American flag into the city's soil in 1846, to claim the land from Mexico during the Mexican-American War. Stanford history professor Albert Camarillo says the statue "reflects a history of oppress...

1 Feb 2021 Thomas Fallon was a soldier in the Mexican-American War and a mayor of San Jose, California, but now left-wing activists are calling for “melting” the bronze statue erected in his honor because they believe he was a racist and a white supremacist. He planted an American flag in 1846 into the city’s soil to claim the land for the United States. A website that catalogs “interesting” locations around the world wrote about the controversy: In the 1980s, San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery had the city commission a statue of Fallon raising the U.S. flag in San Jose at a cost of over $8...