Bronx: In “What NYC’s helpers need and deserve” (op-ed, Dec. 1), incoming Mayor Eric Adams and incoming Comptroller Brad Lander wrote that when COVID struck and services were needed, New York City’s nonprofit sector didn’t ask when they would be paid, they just got to work. The same can be said of the workers who, industry-wide, suffer astonishingly low pay, unsafe work conditions and understaffing. These are the people we entrust to take care of NYC’s most vulnerable, including our children, parents and grandparents yet no one is looking out for them.
Bobbleheads featuring ‘A League of Their Own’ players include two Michigan all-stars
Updated Jan 07, 2021;
Posted Jan 07, 2021
Bobbleheads have been created of Doris Sams of the Muskegon Lassies and Alma Ziegler of the Grand Rapids Chicks of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. (Photos courtesy of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum)
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You can now add two of Michigan’s greatest baseball players of all-time to your bobblehead collection. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has unveiled bobbleheads of Alma Ziegler and Doris Sams who played for Michigan teams in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the league which was featured in the 1992 hit movie, “A League of Their Own.”
wjz is live with first warning weather coverage. we ll check in with captain jeff long in sky eye chopper 13. but first, mike hellgren is in baltimore county, with updated information on repairs. mike? reporter: mary, unfortunately, this scene, this long after the storm, is still what it looks like in many neighborhoods. a lot of big, downed trees. you can see what the lightning and wind did to this one. this is one of those neighborhoods that is still without power. the governor says he are entering a very dangerous phase right now, because so many people have been without electricity for so long. about 150,000 bge customers are now out. and that s about 150,000 too many. reporter: this is new, amateur video, showing the straight-line wind storms, with hurricane-forced wind gusts. and winds and cracks of lightning left thousands without power. some neighborhoods still look like disaster areas four days later, with the electricity off, outrage is growing. well, you can