by Matt Lavonas | Oct 25, 2017 | News
by BWW News Desk Oct. 24, 2017 The Broadway League, the national trade organization for the commercial theatre industry, announces Jason Ford as the 2017 League Educator Apple Award recipient. Now in its 15th year, the awards acknowledge the efforts of local...
by Matt Lavonas | Oct 21, 2017 | News
By KATE TAYLOR Eva S. Moskowitz, the founder and chief executive of Success Academy Charter Schools, shown last year, said in a statement on Wednesday, “In the midst of a widely recognized teacher shortage, SUNY’s vote today ensures that kids of color will have access...
by Matt Lavonas | Oct 21, 2017 | News
If Betsy DeVos enjoys the occasional quaff of champagne on her private jet, the recent news that the Supreme Court is poised to deliver a knock-out blow [3] to public sector unions presented a reason to celebrate. The announcement was made just hours before DeVos alit...
by Matt Lavonas | Oct 21, 2017 | News
By Tom Precious ALBANY – Preserving the status quo can create the strangest of bedfellows in Albany. Just look at the jockeying over whether New York should hold a convention to consider changes to the state Constitution. Groups that could seldom stand to be in the...
by Matt Lavonas | Oct 1, 2017 | News
By Matt Glynn | Frank Lipka spent 20 years in the trucking industry with Consolidated Freightways, working on the dock. He drove a forklift and loaded cartons by hand, before getting out at age 60. “It kept me in good shape,” said Lipka, who previously...