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07/31/2017 - 09:22
Shortly after launching The Daily, we made a decision to welcome comments from readers as a way to stimulate broader community awareness, but experience has convinced us that it was not the right decision. Commenting has been turned off site-wide.
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07/30/2017 - 09:53
Updated 1 year ago
A troubled resident wrote, "I just finished reading the letter from the RISA Board on the blog and the letter to the WIRE from Lorraine Altman. I am appalled at how the letters twisted all of the facts." RISA is the Roosevelt Island Seniors Associations, and as another wrote, "This newest complaint about Carter Burden Network (CBN) can't withstand fact-checking review." That didn't stop anyone from publishing what turns out to be a clear set of untruths - or The Daily from correcting them.
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07/24/2017 - 15:11
Updated 1 year ago
“They own it, they lease it, it’s their responsibility to fund it,” MTA head Joe Lhota said of New York City and its subway system, just hours after his boss, Governor Andrew Cuomo, pulled a rabbit out of his, uh... hat, declaring that the State was not responsible for the subways after all, a change in position so extreme it sails far beyond the conventional political "flip flop."
"You've heard a lot of fiction the last few days," Mayor Bill de Blasio countered, "so I'm going to give you some facts."
So, how 'bout you boys stop bickering and fix the damned system, okay?"
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07/20/2017 - 18:04
They said it couldn't be done, but Roosevelt Islanders set a new low when the donation of some chairs, from Cornell Tech to the Senior Center, ignited a campaign of hostilities fueled, once again, by a virulent and widespread allergy that flares up at the first hint of change, especially when it's those dreaded "outsiders."
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07/09/2017 - 09:40
It may jar old timers, but our future as a community, if we hope to thrive, depends on drawing outsiders to Roosevelt Island and doing it every day. That means getting them to see us differently, as an easy to get to place where creative arts will thrill visitors.
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07/06/2017 - 18:32
Updated 1 year ago
Any sane person will tell you that Frank Farance is a pain in the ass. Even Farance would probably say so, although not in so few words. But it still was disturbing, while doing research on something else, to find an old message from the Main Street WIRE's editor about a secret campaign to shut him up.
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07/04/2017 - 15:01
Updated 1 year ago
We've already called for shutting down the Main Street WIRE. Now, let's take a look at the specifics driving that decision, Managing Editor Kelly Turner's jumping in to bolster the troll attack on this site. Every word attributed to her here is exactly as she posted it, and nothing has been left out.
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07/03/2017 - 15:11
The day I met Dr. Jack Resnick for lunch at Fuji East, he was outspokenly proud of starting the Main Street WIRE, forty years ago, to help a nascent community get a foothold on Roosevelt Island. The newspaper, now less than a shadow of its original self, recently started rolling downhill. Backwards.
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06/25/2017 - 16:26
When I saw that Aaron Hamburger had been handed the reins for this week's RIRA Column in the Main Street Mom's Bimonthly... er, WIRE, I wasn't as surprised by his taking credit for proactively attacking the rat colony at PS/IS 217 as I was that the Common Council fails to understand that honesty is the best policy.
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06/12/2017 - 22:28
Updated 1 year ago
Yes, Roosevelt Island Daily, the graphics and wording of the “Smoking Pot” sign are ridiculous, the sign’s placement is insulting, racist and classist, its timing pathetic and reflective of RIRA’s indifference and its ineffectiveness, and, well, we’ve already seen some graphic results of its posting.
We’re agreed that De Blasio’s policy of no arrests for pot smoking is just and right: in this case marijuana is nothing less than a gateway drug to a criminal record, and we’re glad that we’ve seen the end of it.
But The Daily oversimplifies the issue on several counts.
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