Staten Island
Despite the nation’s economy, can anyone really beat Obama in 2012?
After all, it’s the GOP road blocking him most of the time, isn’t it?
Six Staten Island groceries charged with selling alcohol to underaged
A sting of 118 shops throughout the city included six on Staten Island, charged with selling liquor to underage volunteer decoys who were working with authorities.
Toilet painting hangs in Borough Hall, basically to make a point
The director of the Brooklyn Museum sitting naked on a giant toilet overflowing with green sludge: That’s the new painting now proudly gracing Staten Island’s Borough Hall.
Occupy the Port Authority tolls
Resident gathered to protest the latest rise in tolls on Port Authority crossings, and a petition to halt the inflation has reached more than 1,000 signatures. Their answer: A permanent $4 toll for all residents, no peak or off-peak hours
More than just a skeleton crew at the empty Arthur Kill prison
All the inmates have been taken out, as the prison prepares to close in December for budget cuts. But 255 people are still work there, waiting to be transferred elsewhere.
Occupy Wall Street is calm on the Island
The biggest incident reported in the Staten Island Advance? Police confiscated a flagpole from one of the protesters at the St. George Ferry Terminal. Pretty quiet, compared to other parts of the country where 300 people got arrested.
SOPA needs to be stopped… Now!
As is usually the case, the leaders in charge of writing bills to police the Internet are old and out-of-touch with the digital reality. The Stop Internet Piracy Act, currently being debated by the House of Representatives, is no different.
Pizza and fries fit on a kid’s school lunch food pyramid, Congress says
Conservative members of Congress say “who cares about childhood obesity. Just show me the money!” (That’s not actually what they said, but they do count pizza as a vegetable).
Occupy Wall Street: Whatever else, an enormous and interesting success
If they hadn’t been annoying, could this movement have spread across the world? The Tea Party, for all the press it gets, never inspired mass demonstrations in Madrid.
A wedding at Occupy Wall Street
Staten Islander Micha Balon and West Chester native Emery Abdel-Latif – both currently in college – met only last December at the protest site, while they were both searching for prayer space. In a month, they knew they wanted to get married.
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