Moscow is this year’s least reputable city, with a weak score of 51.3. Next to Moscow Mexico City and New Delhi. Article from reputationinstitute.com reprinted.
There will be an upcoming "City Hall in Your Borough Resource Fair" on Tuesday July 24, 2018 from 9am - 1pm.
40+ city agencies will be tabling at the fair to answer your questions and concerns.
29.06.2018 08:41
Author: By Clifford Michel | cmichel@siadvance.com
Source: Rep. Dan Donovan and Democratic challenger Max Rose will face off in a Nov. 6 general election. (Staten Island Advance/ Staff Shots)
Democratic candidate Max Rose attacked Rep. Daniel Donovan just after the candidates won their respective primary races.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, together with New York City Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark G. Peters, today announced that a Brooklyn construction company that was awarded contracts to perform work on schools in Brooklyn and the Bronx has pleaded guilty to grand larceny for underpaying employees and stealing the difference
“Almost everyone agrees that the Director made serious mistakes; it is one of the few issues that unites people of diverse perspectives," Rosenstein wrote. "The way (Comey) handled the conclusion of the email investigation was wrong.”
05.04.2018 19:52
Author: Igor Baboshkin, photo by Edward Amchislavskiy
Congressman Dan Donovan (NY-11) announced his plan to introduce legislation to reverse a little-known U.S. Postal Service regulation prohibiting photographs of the President and Vice President from hanging in post offices.
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01.04.2018 04:47
Author: heroin bust By Anna Sanders
Donovan, a former district attorney who now represents Staten Island and part of South Brooklyn, stepped in after his domestic partner’s son was arrested with a friend for “criminal sale and possession of a controlled substance (heroin),” according to an allegation filed with the Office of Congressional Ethics last week.
Charles P. Lazarus, the World War II veteran who founded Toys R Us six decades ago and transformed it into an iconic piece of Americana, died Thursday at age 94, a week after the chain announced it was going out of business.
15.03.2018 12:48
Author: By Peter Dickinson
Source: Atlantic Council
Since Russian troops began seizing government buildings in Crimea four years ago, the international community has become accustomed to encountering new acts of Russian aggression on an almost daily basis
27.01.2018 04:42
Author: By GARDINER HARRIS
Source: NYT
WASHINGTON — It was all but ignored last year when it was wrapped into a sanctions law punishing Russian aggressions. But in recent weeks, a requirement that the United States identify Russian oligarchs in a public list has set off a cavalcade of anxious lobbying across Washington by those who fear their links to the Kremlin will jeopardize their financial well-being.
"I could never support legislation that cuts taxes for everybody in the rest of the country and gives the bill to the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn," Donovan said.
Assemblyman Ron Castorina Jr. (R,C,I,Ref-South Shore) released the following statement after the New York City Council made its decision to allow the statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle to remain and not be demolished
29.12.2017 08:26
Author: By Fareed Zakaria
Source: Washingtonpost
This, then, is the global story of our times. The creator, upholder and enforcer of the existing international system is withdrawing into self-centered isolation.
Filling the power vacuum, a host of smaller, illiberal powers — Turkey, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia
13.12.2017 03:17
Author: Igor Baboshkin, photo by Edward Amchislavskiy
Source:
After being introduced by South Shore GOP Councilman Joseph Borelli and welcomed by other Island elected officials, the mayor outlined his list of achievements for the borough, including a record number of lane miles of paved roads and expansion of the universal Pre-K program.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI failed to notify scores of U.S. officials that Russian hackers were trying to break into their personal Gmail accounts despite having evidence for at least a year that the targets were in the Kremlin’s crosshairs, The Associated Press has found.
Former Congressman Michael Grimm today called upon Congress to support President Trump’s call to terminate the Diversity Lottery program that permitted alleged terrorist Sayfullo Saipov to immigrate to the United States - and urged his opponent, Rep. Dan Donovan, to support legislation that addresses the underlying issue of an out-of-control immigration system.
21.09.2017 05:47
Author: By Kirstan Conley and Bruce Golding
Source: http://nypost.com/
“The challenges that the city here is facing are similar to what New York City is facing, but they [Moscow] are able to do it in a way we can’t right now. And it is largely because they don’t have this debt that we carry,” she said.
21.09.2017 05:41
Author: By Mark Moore September 11, 2017 | 11:01am
Source: http://nypost.com
The FBI is investigating a Russian government-backed news agency to see if it spread Kremlin propaganda during the 2016 presidential election, according to a report on Monday.
17.09.2017 23:53
Author: Lada Roslycky
Source: Atlantic Council
There is something naïve about many people born in democratic countries. They seem to take the human rights, values, and principles upon which their countries are built for granted. Dangerously, they have a difficult time imagining that their rights and freedoms can be manipulated in such a way as to threaten their institutions, national security, and personal safety.
(Reuters) - At polling station no. 333 in the Russian city of Vladikavkaz, Reuters reporters only counted 256 voters casting their ballots in a regional election on Sunday. When the official results for polling station no. 333 were declared, the turnout was first given as 1,331 before being revised up to 1,867 on Tuesday.
30.08.2017 05:54
Author: Stephen Blank
Source: Atlantic Council
Two days after Russia told US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson it was willing to talk about Ukraine, Moscow unilaterally and illegally closed the Kerch Strait, ostensibly for technical reasons. So much for a willingness to talk.
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