New York City has begun yet another consumer health advocacy program, much to the chagrin of many locals. This time, they’re targeting sodium-rich foods offered at popular restaurants, by marking each item with an ominous saltshaker symbol. According to Business Insider, the new policy was recently approved by the NYC Board of Health and took […]
Are you feeling “The Force” lately? Maybe it’s just brain freeze. In celebration of the upcoming December release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Ample Hills Creamery partnered with Disney to launch two flavors of limited edition “Star Wars” ice cream: the Dark Side and the Light Side. Each of the flavors designed by Ample […]
As President Obama heads into the final year of his presidency, the Affordable Care Act, more popularly known as Obamacare, is on life support. At least, that’s what many of Obamacare’s critics want the public to believe. But conservative politicians aren’t the only ones pushing back against Obamacare. On Tuesday, December 2, New York City […]
The clamor and consumerism of Black Friday has come and gone, wiping out many stores of their highly reduced retail items. Yet for many winter apparel retailers, this has not been the case. As this Thanksgiving was one of the warmest holidays in recent records, the demand for winter gear is at a shocking low. […]
Over the past decade, many industries have attempted to find a concrete method of cutting down on carbon emissions, but so far nothing has worked. Research, projects, and investments over recent decades, while they have been promising, end up being too costly and difficult to follow through on. Yet today Ohio Senator Rob Portman and […]
For many Millennials, life insurance doesn’t feel like an imminent priority. Rather, it’s something to worry about later down the line. “It never really crossed my mind,” said Julie Kronick, a 23-year-old who recently got her first job out of college at a nonprofit in New York. “They don’t offer insurance, it didn’t come up […]
New York officials are taking steps to help protect the state’s poultry industry from what is being called the worst outbreak of the avian flu in U.S. history. New York State agencies have gotten together to hold an emergency planning meeting, to make sure they are prepared in the event of the Midwestern outbreak reaching […]
In early August, more than 100 doctors, nurses, and medical professionals at the NYU Langone Center completed a 26-hour operation that would help give a man a new face. The man, Patrick Hardison, was a volunteer firefighter up until 2001, when he suffered severe facial burns while fighting a residential fire. In 2013 alone, one […]
The word “hero” is carelessly thrown around a lot these days, but the actions of one local correction officer have made him truly worthy of such a title. According to the New York Daily News, 32-year-old correction officer Daniel Leites was walking near the Queens Center mall on Monday night when he noticed an older […]
This Black Friday is going to be different for Wal-Mart shoppers. The monolithic retail company is ditching doorbuster deals to make holiday shopping easier for consumers. While Wal-Mart is opening its doors at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving, it’s not rolling out the hourly deals on different items meant to pull shoppers in as early as […]