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Closing Rikers: The 10 Major Concerns That Emerged at the Public Hearing ([link removed])
Amid Sound and Fury Over NYC School Diversity Proposal, a Sober Discussion ([link removed])
Inwood Seeing New City Programs and Developer Interest 1 Year After Rezoning ([link removed])
Leave the Bronx for One’s Golden Years? ‘Hell No!’ ([link removed])
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** Closing Rikers: The 10 Major Concerns That Emerged at the Public Hearing
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They are unlikely to stop the plan, but at least some of them will be where last-minute negotiations focus.
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** Amid Sound and Fury Over NYC School Diversity Proposal, a Sober Discussion
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Yes, the School Diversity Advisory Group called for ending Gifted & Talented programs. But, as a group member and a Council education leader told the Max & Murphy Show, its recommendations don’t start or end there.
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** Inwood Seeing New City Programs and Developer Interest 1 Year After Rezoning
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Inwood’s rhythms and feel seem unchanged a year after the rezoning. But physical changes are underway, with more to come.
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** Leave the Bronx for One’s Golden Years? ‘Hell No!’
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To get a sense of what older Bronx residents were doing and thinking on a typical day, City Limits and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism teamed up this week to collect a few vignettes of aging in the borough.
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Opinion
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** If It Approves Borough Jails, Council Must Invest in Mental Health
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‘This is the right time for the city to also make a bold commitment to support people with serious and persistent mental and behavioral health needs, in ways that will prevent contact (or further contact) with law enforcement at every possible juncture.’
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** Listening to What NYC’s Homeless Students Have to Tell Us
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‘Let’s make the first day of school, truly a day of promise and possibility for all our city’s students, especially the homeless. They can’t wait, and neither should we.’
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** After the Garner Case, Black Lives Matter Must Look to the Ballot Box
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BLM should continue its inclusive approach to social justice activism but its members also need to get out of the streets and into elected office.
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