Editorial: With Resignation
This week, Sepp Blatter resigned as president of FIFA, amid an ongoing investigation into improprieties the organization and its executives allegedly committed over a 25-year…
Opinion
Editorial: Let’s Be Careful Out There
Let’s be careful out there. For those of our readers too young to remember Hill Street Blues, that’s a reference to Sergeant Phil Esterhaus’ morning…
Editorial: In Memoriam
Memorial Day, despite its somber significance, has come to be a celebratory event. The timing coincides with the unofficial start of the summer season, sales…
Editorial: If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say…
A few weeks ago, The Forum adjusted our site’s method of spam-screening, thus allowing non-spam comments to appear unencumbered and unedited on story posts. We…
Editorial: COP or COP-out?
The Forum has been under attack this week by supporters of HBCOP, whom our publisher wrote about last week as having misinformed the public on…
Editorial: News That’s Fit to Print
We’re not here to pass judgement, just to present our readership with the news and useful information on a variety of topics. When we are…
Editorial: Fashionably Late Again?
Whether you love Hillary Clinton or…don’t, or admire Mayor Bill de Blasio or…don’t, it’s hard to understand why he hasn’t endorsed her candidacy for president…
Editorial: Resorts Casino: Managing Mayhem
Alcohol, gambling, and lots of money make a recipe often enjoyed but occasionally poisonous. For this reason, people complain about casinos all the time, saying…
Editorial: To Build or to Break
Build it Back has had so many problems that we at The Forum would sometimes read it as Break My Back, for just a second,…
Editorial: The Art of the Interview
For journalists, getting a good interview is like hitting the lottery – without the promise of wealth. An interview can be good because it’s with…
Editorial: Somebody Get the Pope a Pizza!
Pope Francis held his papal inauguration in St. Peter’s Square two years ago this week. The beloved religious leader, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina,…
Editorial: Better Late Than Never?
At The Forum, in this space, we’ve written about issues both big and small. On the “small” side, we’ve talked about the personality quirks that…
Editorial: FEMA: Still Fishy
Not to brag, but you heard it here first. Back in November, The Forum did a story on Monsignor Alfred LoPinto’s appointment as CEO of…
Op-Ed: “Art”ificial Reasoning
In recent weeks, there were a couple of news stories about an ex-Professor who’d been robbing banks in the name of art, claiming that, although…
Editoral: Public Notices: NOT Antiquated
At The Forum, we’ve been trying to move (perhaps somewhat belatedly) into this century by updating our computers, internet speed, and website. Spoiler alert: we’re…