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.
WASHINGTON — Three more Secret Service officers resigned Friday in the expanding prostitution scandal that has brought scorching criticism of agents’ behavior in Colombia just before President Barack Obama’s visit for a summit meeting last week. Agency Director Mark Sullivan came to the White House late Friday to personally brief Obama in the Oval Office.
WASHINGTON — A top lawmaker briefed on the investigation into a Secret Service prostitution scandal said more firings could be imminent following the ouster of three agency employees.
WASHINGTON — Moving swiftly, the Secret Service forced out three agents Wednesday in a prostitution scandal that has embarrassed President Barack Obama. A senior congressman welcomed the move to hold people responsible for the tawdry episode but warned “it’s not over.”
Shancie Jenkins replaces acting director Angela Johnson, who will move back into the assistant director position that she held under Reilly.
Just one week ago I used this space to note a BBC report on the epidemic of child abuse in America which stressed the fact that only vigilance and reporting by the public can help stop the cycle of violence against children. Our child protection services caseworkers and police investigators do a spectacular job of investigating abuse after it has occurred but we perpetuate that abuse if we see the signs of it and fail to report it.
Concerned residents this week asked Delaware City Council to address dangerous traffic on Troy Road, citing incidences in which they believe motorists — including school bus drivers — are putting lives at risk. Danessa Higgins appeared distraught when she retold how two buses “flew” down the road while she and a young child were attempting to cross the street.
You may have noticed people on the streets of Delaware holding PDAs and measuring street trees. The data collection is being done by the Delaware County Master Gardener Volunteers as part of a project to inventory all the street trees in the City of Delaware.