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By Timothy Knight on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016 - 8:19 am
Photo by Breigh Hammarlund, via Flickr.  In an attempt to make hunting more appealing to young girls, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a new law into effect on July 21 that okays the use of florescent pink camouflage as an alternative to the traditional... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 - 12:17 pm
Image: Summer Landscape, 1869, Julie Hart Beers Artists, if you're seeking to toil in obscurity and ensure that your work lies neglected for centuries, here's how to do it: 1. Be a woman. 2. Paint trees. Such has been the fate of the women of the Hudson... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 2, 2010 - 3:08 pm
A bill instituting no-fault divorce in New York State, which cleared the state Senate last month, passed the Assembly yesterday with wide margins. When Gov. Paterson signs it -- which he's promised to do -- New York will join the 49 other states that... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Apr. 17, 2010 - 4:37 pm
Nearly 50 years (and four grandchildren) after the fact, a Woodstock local reflects on her 1962 illegal abortion: They brought me to another doctor to verify that I had just had an abortion. Then they put me in a jail cell in the Bronx with a box of Kotex... Read more
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