NEW YORK — For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University. A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the elite Ivy League school. But Sunday was payback time: The 52-year-old janitor donned a cap and gown to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in classics.
CHICAGO — Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth. The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being treated with the same narcotic prescribed for her mother to fight addiction to powerful prescription painkillers.
NEW YORK — It was only a few nights after the Occupy protesters began sleeping in his church sanctuary when the Rev. Bob Brashear realized that his laptop computer was missing.
NEW YORK — The overnight police raids in Philadelphia and Los Angeles that dismantled two of the nation’s biggest Occupy Wall Street encampments leave just a few major “occupations” still going on around the U.S. But activists are already changing tactics and warning of a winter of discontent, with rallies and marches every week.
Thanksgiving is behind us and thus a new season is upon us — Michigan season. After all, Thanksgiving was yesterday and Advent doesn’t begin until Sunday, so something has to fill the gap. In Ohio, that something is clearly focused on the football game to be played tomorrow in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
CLEVELAND — AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka led organized labor’s final push Monday in a fierce election battle over Ohio’s collective bargaining law. Gov. John Kasich headlined election-eve rallies backing the law. The issue on Tuesday’s Ohio ballot asks whether to keep the law limiting the collective bargaining rights of more than 350,000 public workers.
Book discussion groups have long been a staple of the Delaware County District Library, with multiple discussion scheduled each month at library locations. The staff at the Orange Branch Library, 7171 Gooding Blvd. is making a leap in another direction — a community film discussion!