Author: Tom Faranda

It's not me. It's Tom Secunda. He's one of the four co-founders of Bloomberg L.P. and a Binghamton University grad with two degrees in math. And an active philanthropist. Here's the story mentioning him and other wealthy Westchester residents (including Trump). Nine Westchester residents made the list, and Rockland and Dutchess residents were also ranked.…

Off Marketwatch.com (a business website & mostly Hillary supporter). Globalization and the loss of jobs in America. The story of Trump’s amazingly successful movement is also the story of how Democrats turned their backs on their working-class roots and sided with the elites on the crucial economic question of our times: Who would win from…

Phil (brother #4) posted this picture of Tom, Jim and Paul (Phil hadn’t arrived yet …). Must have been when I was in the 7th or eighth grade. I have no recollection of this picture and certainly no recollection of Paul’s Commodore outfit. He’d have been five or six years old. Paul died at the…

UPDATE: An email comment -"Well, Hello Dalai." HA! Watch the 46 second video below.

Since Tim needed two cars to get his stuff back, I went over with him to St. Thomas Aquinas College – it’s only a 35 minute ride. I was only there about half an hour. Picking up his keys outside the dorm – And here’s Tim and Joe at Memphis Mae’s where we went for…

I believe Fr. Martin, who is a Jesuit and worked on Wall Street before becoming one, spent some time with the Missionary Sisters of Charity. If you go here – a review I did of the book "Come Be My Light" you can find out a little bit more about her struggles.

UPDATE: Suggestion from the Catholic League – “The Catholic League urges everyone to wear Blue and White on Sunday in honor of Mother Teresa’s canonization.” “ In Mother Teresa’s case, a woman in India whose stomach tumor disappeared and a man in Brazil with brain abscesses who awoke from a coma both credited their dramatic…

Click on the name if you’re unfamiliar with Midnight Run. And here’s a kind of interesting (I think) picture, with the Herald Square clock in the foreground and Empire State building behind.

In Peru, at the famous site two days ago – actually Joe took the picture – that’s Brigid on the left and my brother Jim’s wife Maria on the right. In the middle, Nancy and Arthur, two friend’s of Jim. Brigid and Joe get back next Tuesday from their 12 day trip.