Elmhurst shopping center gets earful over workers’ wages
Leave your thoughtsActivist groups marched into the administrative offices of Elmhurst’s Queens Center Mall last Thursday, dropping off 5,500 signatures demanding the…
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Gillibrand touts youth jobs at Jax Heights visit
Leave your thoughtsU.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) visited Make the Road New York inJacksonHeights Tuesday to tout the Urban Jobs Act, a…
West Qns. reps rally to keep health benefits
Leave your thoughtsTwo western Queens congressional members denounced the House Republicans proposed budget plan at two separate events last week, saying the…
Pols laud guv’s deportation shift Cuomo has pulled state out of federal program that targets immigrants
Leave your thoughtsQueens leaders are speaking out in support of Gov. Andrew Cuomos announcement last week to suspend New Yorks participation in…
Living wage bill necessary for Qns Center Mall workers
Leave your thoughtsOn May 21, I attended a town hall meeting at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Corona with hundreds of…
Boro Pols Back Translator Law
Leave your thoughtsNew York City legislators and advocates are calling on the state to implement a law so all chain-store pharmacies across…
Queens Rejects Bid by Tea Party to Gain Toehold in Boro
Leave your thoughtsThe 2010 midterm elections drew residents from every corner of Queens to vote in races that ousted its last remaining…
Bloomberg And Biz Leaders Want Immigration Reform
Leave your thoughtsMayor Michael Bloomberg, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch and a number of other mayors and business leaders joined forces last…
Queens Center Workers Protest For More Benefits
Leave your thoughtsA group of former employees of stores at the Queens Center Mall rallied outside the doors of the Elmhurst shopping…
Queens Activists Protest City Immigration Policies
Leave your thoughtsMany were shocked when Arizonas controversial state immigration bill was signed into law April 23, fearing that immigrants there would…