New Rochelle’s Ann Chiappetta, like most blind people, maneuvers around all manner of challenges on a daily basis that most folks likely never consider. For instance, in our digital age, just imagine what it’s like to navigate a website that
Read MoreWith his best friend and sister Dollyne Bohn living hours away, in Delaware County, Pa., the 2020 pandemic year was a punishing time for our late digital editor, Robert Schork. Holed up in his Yonkers home, Robert was devastated to
Read MoreNowadays, in her free time, you might find Mia Wheeler flashing her incredible street roller skating skills. It’s a hobby that helps divert her mind temporarily from the ghastly memories. But before she turned her life around, Wheeler had no
Read MoreThe funding of political campaigns, as we already know, is heavily influenced by big money contributions, to put it mildly. In fact, here in New York, just the top 200 donors last year contributed nearly $16 million, surpassing the combined
Read MoreIt was October 2013, and the opioid overdose epidemic was raging. Ardsley’s Harris Marquesano, 19, had a job interview the next day. Popular, kind and athletic, Marquesano had been diagnosed years earlier with an anxiety disorder, and later with ADHD.
Read MoreThe Kids are Not All Right I went into this reporting process loaded for bear. The target of my ire was homework – especially for high school students – and what seems to be the preposterous volume of after school
Read More‘Boss Hogg’ Wannabes Exposed by Local Newspaper in Oklahoma When I first spotted a Tulsa TV news anchor’s tweet two weekends ago about the horrifying threats leveled against local newspaper journalists in McCurtaind County, Okla., I immediately thought of my
Read MoreI hesitated for a full minute before pulling the trigger on this column, but then after a gulp of early Saturday afternoon espresso, I said to myself, “Self, if the show about nothing is good enough for Seinfeld, the column
Read MoreThis is the fifth installment in a series about Optum/CareMount and broader local healthcare issues. Local Woman Endures Harrowing Healthcare Experience, Fraught Medical Records Fiasco By Adam Stone It’s impossible to overstate the level of heartbreak and trauma Katonah’s
Read MoreThis past Friday evening I found myself in a hotel room in Albany, feeling like I’d just been propelled through something akin to a time warp. I’d just stepped away for a few minutes from a New York Press Association
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