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“I want to thank you for your support of the seminarians and what they’re doing. We’re doing so much to try to get them to have the freedom to make these reports and right now, as we close up the year, you’re an encouragement to them.”
“My grandfather was my hero growing up. He used to tell me every day, be nice to everybody every day, especially the downtrodden. And this guy is more downtrodden than anybody else I’ve ever seen.”
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that several drop offs will be made available for the disposal of old, tattered and faded US flags that will be retired later this month.
The governor recalled the flooding which affected this part of New York State two year ago, suggesting it is time for the state to explore long-term infrastructural solutions to address a changing climate.
“Somewhere around a million service members have deployed, and left their families and left their civilian jobs to go overseas and defend the United States and many of them return home to discrimination.”
For many, it means a childhood involving multiple relocations. It also means long-term separations from parents who are called to active duty or deployed overseas.
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo is hosting a visiting exhibit created by a Burmese artist who, along with hundreds of subjects he has met through his project, are former political prisoners in their homeland. His exhibit, a Show of Hands, features plaster casts of each former prisoner’s hand. Some of them are of individuals who have since settled in Buffalo after spending years as refugees. Htein Lin recently appeared at the gallery to create new castings and speak before an audience. As he worked on the latest additions to a collection that exceeds 500 plaster hands, he chatted with each subject, sometimes sharing a laugh, as each revealed their personal story of captivity in Burma, now known as Myanmar.
“What this does is it provides an opportunity for these families and these children to grow like any other child.”
“We’re not going to allow regulation to be shoehorned in a big ugly act at the end of June. We’re going to fight for legislative response that is actually comprehensive.”
“The fact of the matter is, people are coming back from war with both physical and mental needs that are not being met.”