Meals on Wheels Association of America

The Sequester Ruins...Fleet Week's Gay Nightlife?

If you tuned into this afternoon's dour White House press briefing, you would have heard a lot about...dun dun dun...the sequester. Several public goods are going to get mercilessly slashed as the cuts begin to take effect, and they go something like this: Head Start, Meals on Wheels, food facility ... More >>

John Legend Stunned The Crowd At Auction Last Night

I was peacefully enjoying the live auction at City Harvest's "Practical Magic" fundraiser at Cipriani 42nd Street last night when a surprise item came up for bidding. John Legend came up from the audience and offered to give a private concert to anyone who had room for a piano in their house! Shock ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Starts a Food Revolution; Michelle Obama Gets Pepsi & Coke Support

​Dozens of seniors in Brighton Beach have been complaining about the poor quality of their daily Meals on Wheels lunches. The problem, they say, started last year when the Jewish Association for Services to the Aged abandoned its own kitchen in favor of catering services. [NY Post] Pepsi and ... More >>

California Agriculture in Danger

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu warns that California's farms and vineyards could vanish by 2100 if the nation doesn't act to slow global warming. [LA Times]Following Mayor Bloomberg's Meals on Wheels reforms, sources say that some food deliveries in Queens are not reaching dozens of housebound sen ... More >>

Blunt Trauma

Firefighters for whom 9-11 never ends

Save This Office

If Betsy Gotbaum wins another term, we may lose our only advocate

The Last Executioner

Dow B. Hover was paid by the state to run its electric chair in the 1950s and '60s. The job may have cost him more than he earned.

Cheney Stops News Cycle Cold

Veep's debate performance shifts headlines away from Bush's lousy show

Letters

A Great Night in Harlem

Bringing Musicians Back to Life