What Are Your Favorite Local Businesses?
Local, independent businesses are part of what makes a city or town unique, especially with the proliferation of chain stores and restaurants across the country and around the world. Are there any local businesses where you live that you want to celebrate? Perhaps they are a hangout spot, serve a regional specialty or have been…
Do You Have a Favorite Local Hangout?
Where do you go to connect with friends and family? What’s your comfortable spot outside of home?
What’s Your Favorite Local Business?
Look at the photo above. What elements draw your attention? Have you been in stores that remind you of this one?What are your favorite local stores, restaurants or other kinds of services? To answer, consider businesses that are unique to your neighborhood or city — not stores like Target that can be found everywhere.In “Casa…
What Grievances Do You Have With Your Local Community?
In “Your Tales of Subway Hell,” Emma G. Fitzsimmons writes: Crowded platforms. Long delays waiting for a train. Trash cans overflowing. Scrolling through Twitter, these are common scenes in 2018 on the New York City subway. Last year, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared a state of emergency for New York City’s troubled subway. We investigated…
Learning With: ‘“Mockingbird” Producer Reconsiders, Letting Local Plays Go Forward’
Before reading the article: Have you read Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”? Have you ever watched a movie or play version of the novel? If so, what are your thoughts? Are you aware there is a new theatrical production of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” written by Aaron Sorkin, that premiered on Broadway in…
