Day: August 16, 2017

Column

Trump is Right – repeal the filibuster tomorrow, by Michael Racioppo

(originally published August 1, 2017   2017 has felt like a collaboration between movie makers David Lynch, the Coen Brothers, and now, after McCain’s dramatic “no”— Frank Capra. Not too long after this vote the United States Antagonist-in-Chief, I mean President Trump, unleashed a series of tweets about the filibuster and how Senate rules should be changed to only require […]

Arts, Music

Commemorate the Erie Canal Bicentennial with songs, stories… …and a premiere of an Erie Canal Documentary!

Brooklyn welcomes The Heartland Passage Tour Commemorate the Erie Canal Bicentennial with songs, stories… …and a premiere of an Erie Canal Documentary Party Like it’s 1817 A bicentennial party is floating its way to Brooklyn’s Waterfront Museum, one of the ports of call of the Heartland Passage Tour as it travels west the entire length of the Erie Canal to […]