by Rosario Iaconis | Oct 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
[This essay was published in the NY Daily News on Columbus Day October 13, 2025] In New York City’s volatile 2025 mayoral election, Columbus Day has become a visceral hot-button issue. Though people of Italian ancestry comprise more than 8% of Gotham’s population,...
by John Mancini | Oct 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
President’s Trump’s proclamation for Columbus Day 2025 makes no mention of Indigenous peoples and only a sentence honoring Italian Americans. That’s about the right mix. Columbus Day was and always should be about 1492 and the man who bet his life on sailing...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Oct 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
I had never heard the name of novelist Rachel Linden (right) until I recently read an article in, of all places, PEOPLE magazine (specifically, their on-line version). I didn’t pull it up. It had to be fate. It appeared out-of-nowhere on my cellphone. The reason...
by John Mancini | Oct 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last Friday some 400,000 Italians took to the streets in support of the Palestinians in war-torn Gaza. Even though a resolution of the horrific carnage may be in the offing many Italians were riled up by Israelis stopping a flotilla of private yachts heading there...
by John Mancini | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
President Trump is relying on two Italian Americans this week, one in science and the other in law. Dr. Andrea Baccarelli The big news item this week is about the safety of acetaminophen (aka Tylenol) taken during pregnancy for pain and fever. Trump’s team, led by...
by John Mancini | Sep 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
The real Rocky with Pres. Eisenhower Today is the 70th anniversary of the Rocky Marciano-Archie Moore fight of 1955. It was Rocky Marciano’s last bout and final knock-out of an opponent. He retired the following year with a 49-0 record, 43 of which were...
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