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Overwhelmed Juvenile Detention Centers Fail to Curb Violence and Misconduct, City Watchdog Finds
City-run juvenile detention centers have become overwhelmed and more difficult to manage in the seven years since more teens transitioned into the system, according to a detailed report released by the city Department of Investigation Thursday. The 75-page report is based on interviews with city Administration for Children Services employees, confidential complaints and observations of […]
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Liberty Lovers Young and Old Celebrate Championship That Was ‘Long Time Coming’
Hundreds of supporters clad in the team’s signature Statue of Liberty aquamarine lined Broadway’s Canyon of Heroes. Office workers at the windows above dumped reams of shredded paper including some toilet paper rolls, with actual ticker tape hard to come by these days. The team’s victorious players, including Sabrina Ionesco, Breanna Stewart and Jonquel Jones, […]
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New York’s Cannabis Fund Became a Disaster. Its Managers Earned $1.7 Million Nonetheless.
They haven’t come close to fulfilling Gov. Kathy Hochul’s goal of helping 150 people victimized by the state’s old, racially biased drug laws enter the legal cannabis business — and some they have assisted fear their dispensary dreams are collapsing. But the three managers of a public-private loan fund established to carry out the primary social […]
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New York’s Cannabis Fund Became a Disaster. Its Managers Earned $1.7 Million Nonetheless.
They haven’t come close to fulfilling Gov. Kathy Hochul’s goal of helping 150 people victimized by the state’s old, racially biased drug laws enter the legal cannabis business — and some they have assisted fear their dispensary dreams are collapsing. But the three managers of a public-private loan fund established to carry out the primary social […]
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Brooklyn Dems Tap Former Party Boss Frank Seddio as a Board of Elections Commissioner
Frank Seddio, the former Brooklyn Democratic Party boss who once railed against reformers as “these f—ing progressives,” has shored up enough support from some of those reformers to secure the party’s nomination to be a commissioner on the city’s Board of Elections. If approved by the City Council, Seddio would fill the seat currently held […]
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