Local Voices

Dear Friend, As a Council Member serving in my second year in office, I would say the most challenging aspect of the position has become writing statements or press releases or even attending rallies around issues of gun violence in our communities.

If someone asks you for a favor, be clear that you want to do this favor. When you're doing things you don't want to do, this only creates resentment towards the other person and yourself.

Joanna Lee Jacob By Joanna Lee Jacob, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation Program Coordinator, Bike Share Initiative I love Brooklyn.

By State Senator Jesse Hamilton, 20th District Sen.

Photo: Lorenzo Steele, Jr. My name is Lorenzo Steele Jr., and I am a former New York City corrections officer who spent 15 years working on the infamous Rikers Island (C-74), the nation's most violent adolescent jail.

By Akosua Albritton Tioma (far left) Much of what I know about edible and medicinal plants is due to following Tioma Allison through different seasons in the wood from 2008 to the present.

"Goddess World" is an amazing world and Calling In The One Unapologetically is an amazing workshop! Women honoring themselves provides a world of generosity that is paramount to the kind of generosity that we know, abolishing obsolete conversations a

Mother Earth-or Father Geb for others—stretches her arms out to people and animals in an effort to keep us fed, cleansed, and renewed. When we include edible and medicinal weeds in our health arsenal, we do much to stay in balance.

Need the name of this edible plant The first post in Herb Witch in Training describes my first foray into edible weed identification at age 13.

Big black steel gate leading to 33 adolescent " bing" cells. Photo: Lorenzo Steele Jr. My name is Lorenzo Steele Jr.