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- At a media briefing yesterday, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, grasped wildly for all available evidence she should maintain a stranglehold on the lives and livelihoods of area residents despite the continuing decline in hospitalizations and deaths.

Los Angeles County residents can expect to remain under some type of “Safer At Home” restrictions well into the summer barring any major change in the fight against the coronavirus, the county’s public health director said Tuesday. Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer made the suggestion during a Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, saying some form of stay-at-home restrictions will likely remain in place “for the next three months”. “There’s now no way, unless there was a dramatic change in … this virus and the tools that we have at hand to actually fight against this virus, there’s no way that...

Two More High-Ranking Papal Appointees Implicated in Alleged Misconduct Pope Francis has once again found him at the center of scandal after two of his most high-ranking appointees have been implicated in misconduct allegations. Monsignor Edgar Peña Parra, who has been tapped to take on the number two role at the Vatican Secretariat of State, has become the subject of a dossier compiled by laity in his home diocese which makes mention of possible homosexual behavior. Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), has also failed to respond to a court summons in France...

Pope Francis is Stonewalling a Summons for his Head of the CDF to Stand Trial for Sex Abuse Cover-up: Massive Media Cover-up Pope Francis's Vatican is stonewalling a summons for his head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to stand trial for sex abuse cover-up. Imagine the media outcry if Pope John Paul II's powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) perfect Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later to be Pope Benedict XVI) had been summoned to stand trail for sex abuse cover-up and the Vatican had stonewalled the summons. It appears that Pope Francis's powerful Congregation for the Doctrine...

White Double TODAY AGAIN, it is Catholic Spain that offers one of her Sons to the Church, that she may present him to the Christian world as a model and a patron. Vincent Ferrer, or as he was called, the Angel of the Judgment, comes to us proclaiming the near approach of the Judge of the living and the dead. During his lifetime, he traversed almost every country of Europe, preaching this terrible truth; and the people of those times went from his sermons striking their breasts, crying out to God to have mercy upon them—in a word, converted....

The Bloomberg juggernaut On Sunday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg glided along a packed Brooklyn street, ahead of the annual New York marathon in a vintage open-top limo, just as the sun broke through the late-morning mist. Everybody was cheering. It is a fitting metaphor for what has been happening in the far less competitive race for the most famous city job in the world. Mr Bloomberg's response to the terror threat is seen as measured A generation ago, a Republican mayor would not have coasted through a Democratic stronghold in the outer-boroughs, 36 hours before election day, without at least a...

Fernando Ferrer says because it’s an election year, the city is getting cleaner. He was at a Harlem River ballpark Wednesday taking issue with its conditions. Right before the event, city workers were out picking up garbage. Ferrer claims it’s because they knew he was going to shed some light on the mess. “The clean up crew here left recently. I wish we had time to go to all the subway stations and all the parks in this city that have been left behind to make sure that they were clean," said Ferrer. NY1 saw one worker collecting garbage. The...

Here he is as you've never seen him before — the one and only "Salsa Sharpton." The Rev. Al Sharpton is dancing his way through a new campaign ad on behalf of Fernando Ferrer. As salsa music blares from a boombox on the street, Sharpton shakes his hips to rev up support for Ferrer's uphill campaign against Mayor Bloomberg. He hoofs across the screen and then appears again as the jingle declares in Spanish, "Fernando Ferrer for mayor — he's the one." Sharpton never speaks in the commercial.

November 1, 2005 -- A new sexually provocative Fernando Ferrer campaign ad, that shows Mayor Bloomberg grabbing President Bush, hits below the belt, the mayor's aides charged last night. Bloomberg's team was fuming over the animated 30-second TV spot — titled "Buddies" — which shows Bloomberg and Bush as cartoon characters riding together like cowboys on the same horse through an oil field, while country music plays in the background. Bloomberg wears a suit. Bush sports a cowboy hat, a plaid shirt and a holster with a gun. They are bobbing up and down. Then Bloomberg's right hand, which holds...

Bill gives Freddy nod amid static By MICHAEL SAUL DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU Former President Bill Clinton endorsed Democrat Fernando Ferrer's mayoral bid yesterday, but his enthusiasm and his words of praise were a bit muted - literally. Appearing together in the South Bronx, Clinton noted that Ferrer had endorsed his candidacy for President in 1992, saying he was "glad to be here to return the favor." In a 130-second address, Clinton mentioned Ferrer's name only once - which might have been a problem if the crowd on Charlotte St. could hear him. Before Clinton and Ferrer arrived, aides...

For New York Democrats seeking to take back City Hall, it was supposed to be a picture-perfect moment: Bill Clinton in the Bronx yesterday to rally voters behind Fernando Ferrer, the party's beleaguered candidate against Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. But a run-of-the-mill campaign stop turned into a bizarre frenzy after the Clinton team removed the entire sound system during a dispute with low-level Ferrer supporters, who were trying to make the event more dramatic. As a result, a crowd of 1,000 people could barely hear Mr. Clinton praise "this good man." The moment was a telling example of the odd...

NEW YORK (AP) Former President Clinton threw his political heft Thursday behind the Democrat running against Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but it was far from a seamless campaign stop. Fernando Ferrer and the former president walked down Charlotte Street in the South Bronx, which they visited together during Clinton's second term in 1997, when Ferrer was borough president. Clinton credited Ferrer with "trying to help the people of the Bronx reach their full potential.'' "I saw the progress made here on these streets, through his leadership,'' Clinton said. Ferrer's underdog campaign has struggled to make a dent in Bloomberg's lead,...

Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean met with Fernando Ferrer's mayoral campaign to jump-start his fund-raising yesterday, even as another blunder dogged the Bronx Democrat's campaign. "We have a plan to increase the fund-raising and to be as helpful as we're allowed to be under the law," Dean said following a closed meeting with top campaign officials. "It involves showing people around the country why it's important that Freddy Ferrer be the next mayor," Dean explained at a campaign event with Ferrer in Union Square. "Mayor Bloomberg has spent an enormous amount of time raising money for right-wing Republicans." Dean...

ALTHOUGH I think Mayor Bloomberg has been good for New York City and should be re-elected, the recent Quinnipiac poll suggests that Fernando Ferrer has an excellent chance of winning. On the surface, the survey seems to indicate the opposite — it shows the mayor beating the Democratic challenger by 52 percent to 38 percent, a comfortable 14-point margin. But a close reading of the survey shows the opposite — that Bloomberg may be in trouble. Most undecided voters usually go for the challenger and against the incumbent. So the mayor's 52-38 lead is really likely showing a much...

A legal services firm with strong ties to the Democratic Party plans to ask a State Supreme Court justice Friday to halt a possible runoff election between Fernando Ferrer and Anthony Weiner, arguing that it would waste up to $12 million in city funds. Following Weiner's concession to Ferrer, no one is arguing that a runoff is necessary, but the question is whether or not the law requires it. The Board of Elections says it does. The public advocacy group filing suit says the Board of Elections is misreading the law. The President of the Board of Elections tells the...

Just hours after the polls closed with uncertainty about whether there would be a Democratic primary runoff in the race for mayor, NY1 has learned that second place finisher Anthony Weiner will concede to Fernando Ferrer. Weiner is scheduled to make a formal announcement outside his childhood home in Brooklyn at noon Wednesday When the polls closed last night, Ferrer appeared to fall just short of the 40 percent needed to avoid a runoff, with absentee ballots yet to be counted. Weiner made a campaign stop early Wednesday morning in Harlem and gave no indication that he could concede at...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a 60 percent approval among New York City voters and now tops all Democratic challengers by 15 percentage points or more, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Even Democrats approve 58 - 32 percent of Mayor Bloomberg, while Republicans approve 72 - 23 percent and independent voters approve 60 - 28 percent. Black voters approve 59 - 27 percent, while white voters approve 66 - 27 percent and Hispanic voters approve 50 - 40 percent. The Mayor is now over the 50 percent mark when matched against any Democratic contender, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack)...

Mayor Bloomberg's approval rating is at its highest level since the early, honeymoon days of his mayoralty - giving him comfortable leads over all his Democratic rivals, a new Daily News poll shows. The poll found that 61% of voters now approve of the job the Republican Bloomberg is doing, compared with just 29% who do not, according to the survey. That's an almost complete reversal of fortune for Bloomberg since mid-2003, when mammoth budget deficits and an 18% property tax increase combined to turn a record two-thirds of New Yorkers against him. Many said then they'd never vote for...

(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) A new poll released shows Mayor Michael Bloomberg making significant gains over his Democratic opponents in the mayoral election. Bloomberg leads his closest Democratic opponent, former Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer 51 percent to 38 percent with 11 percent undecided. In the same poll last month Ferrer led Bloomberg 49 percent to 42 percent. Bloomberg also improved his prospects for re-election with 47 percent saying he should stay in City Hall, although a slim majority of 48 percent felt it was time for a new mayor. However, Bloomberg's overall approval rating was at 48 percent, an...

It was meant to be a quick message on a reporter's voice mailbox. But the caller, a New York political power broker, apparently forgot to hang up the phone, inadvertently revealing his conversation last week with two associates that provided a rare glimpse into the otherwise tightly scripted world of mayoral politics. In the conversation, the three discuss a competitive Democratic primary as anything but that, treating it as a mere obstacle for the candidate, Fernando Ferrer, before he faces his big test: running in the general election against one of the richest men in America, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg....