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Bronx Building Workers to Vote on Strike

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A union that represents maintenance workers in buildings across the borough will hold a vote today to authorize a strike, if necessary, as it continues to negotiate a contract with the Bronx Realty Advisory Board, which represents the building owners.The workers already rejected a contract proposal from management last week, saying cuts to health care and retirement benefits were unacceptable. A press release from the union threatened a strike if a contract is not agreed upon by March 15.The 32BJ SEIU union represents more than 3,000 apartment building employees at over 1,000 residential buildings in the Bronx who work as supers, janitors, doormen, elevator operators and garbage handlers. Remember the serious garbage pile-up during the Co-Op City workers’ strike last summer? That one got dirty (literally). We’ll keep you posted on this; the vote is set for this evening at 6:15.

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Bronx News Roundup, Feb. 22

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Breaking news alert: It’s cold! Don’t put away your long johns, Bronxites, it’s still very much winter here in the northern borough. Cheer up, though, tomorrow it could get up to a balmy 38 degrees. Story of the Day:Sidney Flores, the self-appointed guardian and watchdog of his Mt. Eden neighborhood, could be the closest thing the Bronx has to a super hero.

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Bronx Events: BAAD! Self-Defense Workshops

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The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, or BAAD, is hosting a series of free self-defense classes aimed for LGBT adults, women and transpeople. The classes start tonight and will run through March as part of the BAAD!ASS Women Festival 2011, which celebrates the empowerment of women through art, culture, and performance.A full schedule of festival events and performances can be found at here.

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Bronx Weekend News Roundup, Feb. 21 (President's Day edition)

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And we’re back for a President’s Day edition of the news roundup, which will include everything we didn’t get to last week as we made a final push for your much-needed support. First, though, a hearty and well-deserved thank you to everyone who contributed during our six-week fund-raising appeal. At last count, you had contributed $4,318 toward making our organization, and everything we do, stronger.Starting today, we will get back to our daily news roundups, weekly features and our continuing mission to bring you invaluable local information and original reporting. (Important side note: Your ongoing support is still important. If you haven’t donated yet or want to donate again in the future, just click on our “Donate” button on the upper-right hand corner of this page.) OK, that’s it, we’re moving on!

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Why We Do What We Do and How You Can Help – Last Chance!

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Hi Everyone,This is the final day of our annual fundraising appeal.If you’re like us newspaper people who need a good deadline to get the job done … well, now would be the time to get out those credit cards and checkbooks!As you know, we set an ambitious goal of raising $10,000 from readers. At last count, we’ve raised $3,513.We are extremely grateful to the generous readers who have donated so far, but we know there are hundreds more of you out there who care about what we do. A donation from each of you for whatever you can afford right now will bring us much closer to our goal, and hopefully, over the finish line. Every dollar counts!We’ve already told you and showed you in a number of ways why we’re doing this, but I thought I’d add a little bit of a personal note about why we do what we do here at the Bronx News Network and why I’ve enjoyed coming to work every day for the last 16 and a half years when I started as the first full-time editor of the Norwood News.If there’s one story I’ll always remember covering it’s one that I began writing about when I was just a free-lancer for the then-monthly Norwood News.

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Two Days Left in Our Appeal, Support BxNN Today!

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Lots going on in the borough right now and, rest assured, we’re hard at work gathering news for our affiliate papers and getting ready to unleash a torrent of hard-hitting stories on this site next week. But for now, we’re using this space to make a final appeal for your help. We can not do this without your financial support. As a nonprofit organization, reader donations are critical to keeping our programs going and growing. By contributing to our efforts, you’re taking ownership.

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Three Days Left to Donate to our Campaign

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There’s just three more days left to give to our annual campaign, and so far we’ve raised $3,338. Over the last couple of days many of you have donated to our campaign and we’re really grateful for your support. But we know there are more of you who read the BxNN blog every day. We know you appreciate having a place to visit on the web that has all the best Bronx news and information in one place. If all of our readers gave just $2 each, we would be well over 50% percent of our goal.