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Byline: Timmy Facciola Every Friday for the past month, my father has driven down to Manhattan and delivered food with Catholic Charities to homebound senior citizens. When I first found [...]

Byline: Timmy Facciola The populist tides have washed ashore Chestnut Hill, delivering to the cronies of Carney Hall a historical renunciation of the hysterical, reactionary policies that have become endemic [...]

Byline: Timmy Facciola Conversations. Meaningful impact. Improvement. Pushing for. Lifting up. Elevating. These are just some of the vapid terms UGBC candidates are using to compensate for the lack of [...]

Byline: Timmy FacciolaIn the background of the summer of scandal featuring the Pennsylvania grand jury report of 1,000 victims of priestly sexual abuse and the revelations of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick's [...]

Byline: Timmy Facciola Boston College students have been making fun of Jesuit High School bros since before Saturday Night Live made it cool. Every day walking around campus in their [...]

Byline: Timmy Facciola I stood in the hall of my seedy dorm in the left armpit of Virginia, staring at the calendar on the poster board. In purple and gold [...]

The article discusses how Republicans in New York are using the growing migrant crisis, with over 1,00,000 asylum seekers arriving in the state. Topics include the challenges faced by Democrats in responding to this crisis, their aim to leverage the situation as an advantage, and the potential risks for Democrats in reinforcing the perception that they cannot effectively govern.

The article reports on how independent voters in New York city, New York have supported Republican candidates that led to their many victories during the 2022 U.S. midterm elections. According to independent voter Lynn Frankel, the Republicans' tough position on crimes and the alleged indifference of New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul changed her mind and voted for the Republicans. Also cited are how the victories of Republicans in New York allowed them to gain control of the House.

The article reports on a political rally of Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, with U.S. president Joe Biden at Sarah Lawrence College in Westchester county, for midterm elections in November 2022.

The article reports on the move by colleges and universities in the U.S. to implement strict guidelines like banning parties and conducting corona virus tests to continue their operations amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Also cited are the outbreaks of infections due to failure by schools to strictly implement their policies, the warning issued by University of Notre Dame to its students following the infection of 147 students, and the actions of schools like Purdue University.

The article focuses on the U.S. have been fully vaccinated and scientists have estimated that 70 to 90 percent of the total population must acquire resistance to the virus to reach herd immunity, but in hundreds of counties around the country with some even languishing in the teens.

The article focuses on coronavirus cases have continued to emerge by the tens of thousands in 2021 at colleges, a New York Times survey has found, after students has returned to campuses at a time when case numbers were soaring across much of the country.

The article reports that according to a study by the periodical, every public four-year college and private institution in the U.S. that competes in Division I sports or a member of an elite group of research universities revealed several coronavirus cases. It mentions that coronavirus infections on campuses might go unnoticed if not for reporting by academic institutions themselves.

The article discusses according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nursing home populations are at a high risk of being infected by and dying from the coronavirus. Topics include some states, including Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey and South Carolina, regularly release cumulative data on cases and deaths at specific facilities; and the Times has been assembling its own database of coronavirus cases and deaths at long-term care facilities for older adults.