News from around the Yankees' home borough...
The Williamsbridge Road office, established by former state senator and Republican Committee chairman Guy Velella, sat in the middle of its block on the second floor of an unmarked building. A steep staircase to the office kept seniors and disabled Republicans away.• The Norwood News and Mount Hope Monitor, two -- what were they called? -- "news-papers," are teaching Bronx teen-agers some dead Amish thing to prepare them for the past:
“Our landlord prohibited signs on the building,” Ramftl explained. “Some people had no idea we were there.”
Students will learn the fundamentals of writing, reporting, and photojournalism through classroom instruction, and through hands-on reporting in their own neighborhoods.• Meanwhile, in Riverdale, they're really getting sick of President Obama's shit:
“I am disappointed with his need to try and make everyone happy,” Mr. Enright wrote. “It seems to me that to improve this country we’ll have to make some people unhappy, like health industry and Wall Street crooks. I wanted Obama to do it. He has not done it.”
Pointless fact: Mr. Enright was my 12th grade art teacher and his mother was my 9th grade English teacher.
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