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Monday, March 19th, 2007Someone emailed me the inspirational story of Carolyn Thomas, a domestic violence survivor whose boyfriend killed her mother and shot her in the head, leaving her without most of her face. “Trauma” scarcely describes the horrific price the 35-year-old Thomas has paid. The bullet skirted her brain but destroyed her right eye, her cheeks, her [...]
21 Arrested in High School Basketbrawl
Monday, March 19th, 2007New York City public school students put violence on display at last night’s Public Schools Athletic League’s city championship game between Brooklyn rival high schools Lincoln and Boys & Girls. A wild melee broke out at a high school basketball game inside Madison Square Garden on Sunday night between high school students, police officers, and [...]
The Abortion Capital of America
Monday, March 12th, 2007Nicole Baker of Boro Pregnancy Counseling Center gave a sexual integrity workshop at the Coalition today. She brought this NYC distinction to our attention: Thirty-five years later, New York has the highest abortion rate in America. In 2000, the last year for which good data are available, 39 out of every 1,000 women in the [...]
Wednesday’s Stew
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007+ Suspect arrested in kidnapping of 13-year-old MacGyver. My cousin Steven told me yesterday that this kidnapping took place moments from where he lives in Florida, and within minutes of the initial call to the police, Word of Christ International Church’s intercessory prayer team had been mobilized to pray. The boy’s stepdad works with Rick, [...]
Monday Miscellany
Monday, February 26th, 2007+ Free to be a He-She. Manhattan Family Court Judge Sheldon Rand ruled this morning that the City must pay for a 21-year-old man’s sex change surgery because s/he had been in the care of the city’s Administration for Children’s Services as a teen. He called the surgery to remove one’s manhood “necessary” medical care [...]
Fatal fire four blocks from home
Thursday, February 8th, 2007This morning around 5 am, this fire on 73rd Street and 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge Brooklyn claimed the lives of two children, two and four-year-old sisters. Those little girls were our neighbors, as we live only four blocks away. Please pray for their family.
YouTube technology improves NYC law enforcement
Thursday, January 18th, 2007And you thought it was a passing fad. “Think about Google. Think about eBay. Think about photos people take on their cellphones when they’re on vacation. It’s time to bring law enforcement into cyberspace,” declared Feinblatt [Mayor Bloomber's criminal-justice coordinator]. “In the end, it’s going to help us solve crimes faster.” From “‘YouTube’ Due for [...]
Are you sticky?
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007… and other insights via NorCalUrban Liotti. + Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. Take the test. Six principles (“SUCCESâ€Â) … link sticky ideas ["ideas that people understand, remember, and that change the way people think or behave"] of all kinds. Sticky ideas won’t always have all six, but the more, [...]
Good riddance
Friday, December 29th, 2006Wednesday’s Stew
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006+ The sportsman who became President died last night at 93. Rest in Peace. + Does this make President Jimmy Carter our country’s official elder statesman? + The end is near for an ex-president of a different sort. + “No ceiling in sight” for Dwight Howard, an outspoken Christian and the NBA’s rising big man. [...]
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