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These chain restaurants are closing locations in 2024
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — From TGI Fridays to Boston Market, several chain restaurants have closed their doors on Staten Island in recent years. But this year, a number of chains have announced the closure of select locations across the country, according to Eat This, Not That!, which compiled a list of the 10 chain restaurants which have closed or are in the process of closing locations in 2024.
Social Security adjustment: Here’s the smallest COLA increase ever paid
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The latest projections for Social Security’s 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is around 2.6%, or about $45 per month, for the average beneficiary based on inflation. The projection puts it in line with the 2.6% average annual increase seen over the past two decades. While that...
Has Rutgers Capitulated to Antisemitic, Anti-Israel, Pro-Hamas Protesters?
In response to Rutgers University’s announced “resolution,” Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) today asked whether the school administration’s reply to the ten demands issued by the encampment organizers amounted to appeasement of antisemitic, anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protesters. Included among their most egregious demands, the protesters ordered Rutgers to:
Nature Calls: The Advance/SILive.com is looking for the best wildlife on Staten Island
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island is known for a lot of things but one aspect that could easily be neglected is its thriving and often unusual growing wild animal population. From the much-maligned turkeys, to the pint-sized screech owl of Clove Lakes, to the nearly invisible yet uber-important...
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