The National September 11 Memorial and Museum has launched a new web project called “Make History” to tell the story of the terrorist attacks and their aftermath directly through the voices of those who experienced it.

“Do you have images or stories of the 9/11 attacks or their aftermath?” asks an email from the Joe Daniels, [...]

Gov. David Paterson isn’t the only one faring poorly in recent polls.
Today,  Marist Poll released a survey showing 69 percent of registered voters in New York State said they did not want disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer to run for statewide office next year.  Included are 62 percent of Democrats, Spitzer’s own party, 77 percent [...]

The latest Marist Poll is anything but good news for New York State Gov. David Paterson.

The governor’s approval rating is stuck at about 20 percent. The June survey found the governor at 21 percent.  A month earlier he was at 19 percent.

”(H)e is even scraping bottom with his fellow Democrats,” according to Marist Poll. “Just [...]

Students at the University of Texas at Arlington want to kill the print version of the student newspaper, The Shorthorn.
They are advocating an online version only to save paper.
It’s part of the sea change that the news media is in the midst of. Readers are going online; media companies are still sorting out how to [...]

Think of the Spanish Civil war and one photo comes to mind: Robert Capa’s “Death of a Loyalist Militiaman,” taken in 1936.
The photograph, known as The Falling Soldier, shows the moment a Republican militiaman was killed. He is collapsing backwards, one arm reaching behind him, his rifle slipping from his grasp.
Think of the Vietnam War [...]

Here’s a column from Joe Scarborough, the host of Morning Joe on MSNBC, in our sister Gannett newspaper, the Pensacola News Journal.

He writes about leaving Congress, where he represented Northwest Florida as a Republican, and soon being shunned by his party and his former colleagues.

All but one.

It’s a story about Ted Kennedy’s kindness and Scarborough’s [...]

Ted Kennedy’s accomplishments were always measured against Chappaquiddick—the night he drove a car off a bridge into a pond, swam to shore, failed to report the accident, and left behind a young campaign worker who drowned.

Now in his memoirs to be published this month, Kennedy wrote that he made terrible decisions the night Mary Jo [...]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is trying to make New York’s gun laws even tougher. Bloomberg, who is running for reelection, made these proposals at a campaign appearance:

Ban Armor Piercing Bullets: The mayor wants New York to enact a tougher state ban on armor-piercing ammunition that make possession a felony. The current state ban contains numerous loopholes [...]

For tomorrow, I wrote about some ideas for reforms from some lawmakers, among them Assemblyman Mike Spano of Yonkers.

Spano would make some cases of drunk-driving fatalities murder.

In the meantime, there’s this story from Long Island—another parent allegedly driving drunk with a child in the car.

From the Associated Press:

ROOSEVELT, N.Y. (AP) — State police say a [...]

Republican Rep. Peter King of Long Island announces he will not challenge U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Earlier Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney also stepped aside.

More below.

NEW YORK (AP) — Republican New York Rep. Peter King has announced he will not challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2010.
King said on Monday that he’ll instead seek re-election to his [...]