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Topic: James Molinaro


In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  Borough President James P. Molinaro
James P. Molinaro is Staten Island's 14th Borough President, and the first registered Conservative to hold borough-wide office in New York City.
Molinaro is a longtime resident of the Fort Wadsworth section of Staten Island, where he and his wife raised their two sons.
Molinaro is widely recognized for many accomplishments, he is most proud of the everyday gestures of help he has made to people from all walks of life, particularly his work with the elderly, the chronically ill, and the poor.
statenislandusa.com /molinaro.html   (1012 words)

  
 About Carl - Fallen Brothers Community
Molinaro was born in Brooklyn and moved to Eltingville with his family when he was 11 years old.
Molinaro joined his colleagues on the rig and was on his way downtown when he called his wife on a cell phone at 9:07 a.m.
Molinaro finds herself comforted by her children, who are fortunate enough not to understand the gravity of what has happened.
www.fallenbrothers.com /community/showthread.php?t=863   (821 words)

  
 village voice > news > All the King's Men by Brian Bernbaum & Douglas Gillison
The use of city jobholders to aid the Molinaro campaign is potentially embarrassing to the Giuliani administration, because the mayor endorsed Molinaro last December.
Molinaro, the current deputy borough president, is the chosen successor of outgoing president Molinari, who has been the mayor's closest GOP ally for years.
She said he claimed to have collected a ridiculous number of signatures: "You usually get between 10 and 20 a day and he was saying he was getting 40 or 50 a day, and this is during the daytime when people aren't even at home!" she said.
www.villagevoice.com /news/0145,gillison,29707,5.html   (930 words)

  
 village voice > news > The Odd Couple by Tom Robbins
Molinaro, 74, is the potbellied, pro-death-penalty, anti-abortion, capital-C conservative (he led the island's Conservative Party for 25 years), presiding over a largely white and middle-income borough.
Molinaro is "the most honest and trustworthy person I have ever met," the mayor told the crowd.
Molinaro told the Advance that he had "no idea" anything was amiss at the facility but that he wasn't about to return any of the campaign money he'd collected there, including $10,000 from Ragucci and his family, $9,500 from Scollo and his union, and another $10,000 from other businesses at the terminal.
www.villagevoice.com /news/0542,robbins,68988,5.html   (2278 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Molinaro said it was important to meet on Staten Island, and cited poor attendance among local residents at a hearing held in Manhattan on Aug. 10.
James Corner, director of Field Operations -- the Manhattan-based landscape architecture firm tapped by the city to turn the former landfill into parkland -- presented ideas for memorials.
City Councilman James Oddo (R-Mid-Island/Brooklyn) and Republican candidate for the South Shore Assembly seat, Vincent Ignizio, were in attendance, along with representatives of several local politicians, including Assemblyman Matthew Mirones (R-East Shore/Brooklyn) and Councilman Andrew Lanza (R-South Shore).
www.voicesofsept11.org /wtc/100604.htm   (578 words)

  
 COURTTV.COM - TRIALS - Damning testimony against Williams, then 'never mind'
Also prodded by the defense was Lieutenant Daniel James, an investigator with the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office.
Defense lawyer Billy Martin questioned James about plea deals Williams' houseguests made with prosecutors. The detective acknowledged that four members of the Harlem Globetrotters team were granted immunity and two other men entered a pretrial diversionary program and agreed to testify against Williams.
James brushed off Martin's suggestion that the officer "zeroed in" on Williams because he loved the limelight and believed the case could be the biggest of his 30-year career.
www.courttv.com /trials/jaysonwilliams/021904_ctv.html   (852 words)

  
 New York Post Online Edition: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The grandson of Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro has been charged with attempted murder in connection with a brutal beating in a schoolyard over the weekend, authorities said last night.
Steven Molinaro, 17, and three other teens, who were also arrested, got into a fight with another group of youths at PS 52 in Dongan Hills on Saturday night.
Young Molinaro and others in his gang believed that one of the victims had stolen a cellphone, the sources said.
www.nypost.com /news/regionalnews/63208.htm   (375 words)

  
 Brooklyn Papers Cyclones Coverage
Borough presidents James Molinaro and Marty Markowitz face off in neutral territory — afloat on the Narrows — with mascots Scooter the Holy Cow and Sandy the Seagull.
The challenge was first made to Molinaro earlier this year, but was held in limbo over a lack of neutral venue to execute the wager.
Molinaro, who was similarly outfitted in a nylon S.I. Yankees jacket, offered a few swings back — and the games of summer began.
www.brooklynpapers.com /html/cyclones/html/action/2002season/25_24action1.html   (793 words)

  
 American Pianists Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Anthony Molinaro, the 1995 Harrison Steel Castings/American Pianists Association Fellow, took first place in the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation International Piano Competition in New York in May 1997, considered by many to be among the top international piano competitions.
Molinaro, one of the Naumburg's five finalists, shares the first-place honors with Steven Osborne of Scotland.
Molinaro also played Schubert-Liszt's "Gretchen am Spinnrade;" Beethoven's final movement of "Sonata No. 30 in E major, Opus 109;" and his own composition, "Yes, I Want to Write A Fugue," half of which he improvised on stage during the competition.
www.americanpianists.org /news/molwins.html   (361 words)

  
 The Real Deal - Staten Island: An offer more buyers can't refuse
The borough president of Staten Island is pondering the children - future and current - of Staten Island's newer residents, mostly young adults who moved to the borough for a variety of reasons.
The changes, backed by Molinaro and approved by the City Council in August 2004, also ensured space for the children to play, requiring backyards to be 30 feet, side yards to be at least 20 feet for corner lots, and all homes to be 25 feet back from the curb.
Molinaro's office reported that in the one month following the August 2004 City Council downzoning approval, applications for new house addresses from builders dropped by 41.4 percent.
www.therealdeal.net /issues/JANUARY_2006/1136400380.php   (1384 words)

  
 New York Daily News - City News - Molinaro eulogizes son, 40   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Molinaro said he drove his son to his job as a construction company engineer at Ground Zero.
But Stephen Molinaro's greatest love was for was his son, Steven, 17, and daughter, Loriann, 15, Molinaro said, looking toward the grieving children in a front pew.
Molinaro ended his heart-wrenching eulogy by saying his late wife and son are together now.
www.nydailynews.com /news/local/story/413987p-349996c.html   (283 words)

  
 NYC Election 2001: Staten Island Borough President
Molinaro is not a Republican, but vice chairman of the state Conservative Party.
Molinaro is running for the Republican nomination against Assemblyman Robert Straniere.
Conservative James Molinaro, who is running for Staten Island Borough President, may have to resign his job as Deputy Borough President.
www.gothamgazette.com /searchlight2001/staten.html   (3163 words)

  
 UTU: News
That is what Staten Island Borough President James P. Molinaro says about the 12-mile-long Staten Island Railway, the borough's only train line, according to a report by Jim O'Grady that appeared in the New York Times.
Molinaro said, those railroads could furnish more powerful locomotives than the ones that now pull the line's two work trains.
Molinaro also said the line uses subway cars that seat 50 people each and include ample standing room, design features more suitable to the No. 4 train at rush hour than to the railway's steady but less crowded stream of commuters.
www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=5401   (435 words)

  
 STATEN SCION IS DEAD By PHILIP MESSING and JOHN DOYLE - New York Post Online Edition: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Stephen Molinaro, 40, had a history of drug use and ran a trucking com pany that was caught up in a waterfront mob investigation, but po lice said they didn't suspect foul play in his death.
James Molinaro lives two doors down from his son's home in the leafy Fort Wadsworth section.
A former top aide to former Borough President Guy Molinari, James Molinaro, executive vice chairman of the state Conservative Party, a title he has held for more than 15 years, is a self-made man known for his sharp political instincts.
www.nypost.com /news/regionalnews/65294.htm   (451 words)

  
 MICRO: Two Vendors Find Recipes
What's more, says Akrion's president, James Molinaro, the firm is one of only two companies hiring in Allentown, PA, where the supplier has its headquarters.
Molinaro points out that Akrion's applications lab "found wonderful diversification to other business segments that people may not consider sexy but that really pay the bills.
Molinaro says it doesn't matter whether you're making computer printers or automobiles, ISO 9001 forces you to sit down with your director of quality and executive council and define operational excellence.
www.micromagazine.com /archive/03/04/lead.html   (1617 words)

  
 COAHSI Achievement in the Arts Awards
James P. Molinaro was elected the 14th Borough President of Staten Island in November 2001.
Molinaro has been actively involved in the closure of the Fresh Kills Landfill, which helped end 50 years of dumping garbage on Staten Island, the renaissance of South Beach and the restoration of the South Beach Boardwalk, and the creation of the Richmond County Bank Ballpark, home of the Staten Island Yankees.
Molinaro's efforts new schools, much needed recreation areas for children, the addition of 1700 acres of new parkland, including Bloomingdale Park and the Bluebelt Expansion Project, and the formation of the Traffic Task Force all bring common-sense improvements to Staten Island.
www.statenislandarts.org /achievement/achievement.html   (11890 words)

  
 Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - this just in ... Mob News and Features
June 10, 2002 -- Mob investigators are probing millions of dollars in waterfront contracts doled out by the Conservative Party bigwig who ran the city's largest port - including a sweetheart deal with the son of the Staten Island borough president,The Post has learned.
Sources say the non-competitively bid contract given out by Carmine Ragucci to APS Trucking to move containers was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to Steven Molinaro, son of Staten Island Beep James Molinaro, and to the young Molinaro's partner, Salvatore Calcagno, who is the Beep's campaign-finance manager.
In addition, Steven Molinaro and Calcagno also cashed in on the so-called "Banana Building," a Port Authority-subsidized warehouse that became a multimillion-dollar taxpayer boondoggle plagued by shoddy construction, inferior materials and cheap, non-union and unskilled labor.
www.americanmafia.com /News/6-10-02_Mob_Probers.html   (289 words)

  
 SubMicron Systems Corporation Announces Restructuring Status and Appointment Of VP of Technical Planning; Date of ...
Molinaro will assume the newly created position of Vice President of Technical Planning.
Molinaro has resigned his previous position as a member of the Board of Directors.
Molinaro's new position will help the Company achieve the fourth step in its turnaround plan: to fundamentally change the way the Company develops and manufacturers its core products.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/6-27-97/265849&EDATE=   (528 words)

  
 Review: Beaumarchais, The Scoundrel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Through it all, one thing remains constant: the script, by director Edouard Molinaro and Jean-Claude Brisville, refuses to relinquish its grasp on a tongue-in-cheek approach.
Molinaro is no stranger to films with a humorous edge — his La Cage aux Folles took a serious theme and cleverly concealed it in a screenplay that was rich in comedy.
Beaumarchais' adventures, while fleshed out by Molinaro, are contained in the historical record.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/beaumarchais.html   (724 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Crime File - Stabbed S.I. teen is 'lucky'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Richard Orloski, allegedly stabbed by Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro's grandson, is comforted by mom, Barbara, at luncheon at upper East Side restaurant.
A Staten Island teen who, cops say, was stabbed by the grandson of Borough President James Molinaro over a missing cell phone, celebrated his release from the hospital yesterday, just days after a judge entrusted the sensitive case to the Manhattan district attorney.
Molinaro, 17, and three others were arrested, and all but one was charged with attempted murder.
www.nydailynews.com /news/crime_file/story/392998p-333254c.html   (295 words)

  
 wcbstv.com - Staten Island Teens' Court Case Pushed To March   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
James Molinaro is the grandfather of one of the charged, Steven Molinaro.
The mother of the beating and stabbing victim wants quick justice against the four teenagers who are charged with the crime.
The four teens are Charles Sarnell, 18; William Guash, 16; Carlos Novoa, 19; and Steven Molinaro, 17.
wcbstv.com /topstories/local_story_041172335.html   (366 words)

  
 UNION CORRUPTION UPDATE (Vol. 8, Issue 24 -- November 21, 2005)
Molinaro, 74, is at the center of a complex web of questionable dealings.
Molinaro has other skeletons in his closet, too — like developer Ralph Garguilo, a Genovese crime family associate-turned-government witness.
James Duff and William Stratton, respectively, ex-vice president and business agent of Local 3 of the Liquor and Wine Sales Representatives, had been two key principals in the larger scheme.
www.nlpc.org /view.asp?action=viewArticle&aid=1168   (3595 words)

  
 UFA In The Media: December 30, 2005 - Staten Island Advance
A firefighter who braved the frigid waters of the Kill van Kull to rescue a woman on Dec. 13 shrugged off praise for his heroic action yesterday, saying it was a natural reaction.
Molinaro also honored Firefighter Joseph Pigott of Ladder 78, who helped pull the woman to safety.
Molinaro gave both men Certificates of Appreciation and both New Brighton companies received a proclamation.
www.ufalocal94.org /news_stories/si_advance/sia_12_30_05.html   (491 words)

  
 Wired New York Forum - Staten Island Growth Management Task Force
The Growth Management Task Force announcement followed a tour of questionable developments throughout the island that were identified by Borough President James Molinaro and City Council Member James Oddo.
After the festivities, Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro realized that he had a golden opportunity to tell them about a major issue of concern to island residents - overdevelopment.
James P. Molinaro, the borough president, does not like the word overdevelopment.
www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=3105   (3451 words)

  
 MICRO:Ultrapure Fluids, by Dennis Capitanio, (Jan '97, p.39)
Recirculating hot-acid baths are widely used in the semiconductor industry for wet-etching, stripping, and cleaning silicon wafers.
Capitanio D, and Gotlinsky B, "Methodology for Evaluating Particulate Control in Aggressive Chemicals for the Semiconductor Industry," in Proceedings of the 39th Annual Technical Meeting of the IES, Mount Prospect, IL, Institute of Environmental Sciences, pp 218—224, 1993.
James Molinaro is senior vice president of sales, service, and technology for SubMicron Systems, Allentown, PA. He is one of two cofounders of the advanced semiconductor and silicon wafer automated process equipment company, which was established in 1989.
www.micromagazine.com /archive/97/01/capitan.html   (2000 words)

  
 Voices of September 11th - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
In a move aimed at turning heaps of trash into a travelers' treasure, local politicians are pushing the Sanitation Department to open roads in the Fresh Kills landfill to help ease the borough's nightmarish traffic.
Once the bane of the borough and the butt of many jokes, the massive landfill was closed by the city in 2001.
While those plans are far off and will still need approval, Molinaro wants to see the roadways accessible to motorists by 2007.
www.voicesofsept11.org /news/020305c.htm   (393 words)

  
 Staten Island Borough President's Office
In his ongoing initiative to improve traffic safety, Borough President James P. Molinaro is asking Staten Island homeowners to do their part by trimming trees and hedges on their property that block road signs and signals.
Molinaro also asks Islanders who spot such hazardous locations to report them to his Helpline at (718) 816-2000.
In response to an increasing number of Staten Islanders reporting cases of Lyme disease, Borough President James P. Molinaro held a public forum on June 20th with professionals from the medical and scientific communities to inform citizens about the disease.
www.statenislandusa.com   (307 words)

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