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7M ago
The aroma wafted across my hometown seven days a week. It insinuated itself into our community, our nostrils and our imaginations. The fragrance came from a factory on a former cornfield about a mile from our house. The site was owned by a company named Nabisco ..read more
New York Daily News » Opinion
7M ago
New York City’s greenway network is a Frankenstein monster of jurisdictions, histories and responsibilities. Unfortunately, this shows up on our public pathways in uneven upkeep, an unsteady pace of improvement and poor equity of access across the five boroughs ..read more
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7M ago
Yesterday, state Attorney General Tish James, joined by the Legal Aid Society, New York Civil Liberties Union and private plaintiffs reached a settlement with the NYPD over its treatment of protected speech protest activity as a result of its heavy-handed response to the 2020 racial justice protests following the killing of George Floyd ..read more
New York Daily News » Opinion
7M ago
The biggest threat to our representative democracy is not poll taxes or other active suppression of voting rights, but sophisticated fiddling with district maps and other seemingly mundane mechanics to amplify some citizens’ voices and squelch others. Fortunately, though the Supreme Court has largely thrown up its hands in the face of increasingly complicated gerrymandering schemes in which politicians choose their voters and not the other way around, especially egregious examples of the black art remain subject to judicial scrutiny and invalidation ..read more
New York Daily News » Opinion
7M ago
Alexandria, Va.: I am writing to bring attention to the Electric Zoo music festival in New York City that took place Sept. 1-3. The event started off on a bad note when its organizers posted that the first day would be canceled due to “supply chain disruptions” that led to construction not being completed ..read more
New York Daily News » Opinion
7M ago
Seemingly out of nowhere, fires caused by faulty lithium-ion e-bike batteries have become a clear and present danger in this city — taking lives, putting our first responders at risk and causing millions of dollars in property damage ..read more
New York Daily News » Opinion
7M ago
The Daily News in July revealed that Rachel Atcheson, a staffer of Mayor Adams, had contact with the ringleader of an alleged scheme to defraud New York City taxpayers. While Atcheson and Adams have not been accused of wrongdoing, the news raises alarming questions about the city’s public matching funds program for local elected offices ..read more
New York Daily News » Opinion
7M ago
New York State has a rigorous Freedom of Information Law, called FOIL, where anyone can request public records from government agencies and the records will be supplied, with a few narrow exceptions. This applies equally regardless of who makes the request. So either everyone gets access or everyone gets denied. At least that’s what we thought until last week, when lawyers for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo were promised documents held by state Attorney General Tish James that the Daily News was denied 18 months ago ..read more
New York Daily News » Opinion
7M ago
East Northport, L.I.: I grew up in northeastern Pennsylvania, where a local UHF TV station carried the Yankees. We mostly watched on weekends, and no, it wasn’t all fulfilling for fans. But at least you felt that players cared and that the ownership and management had at least some clue. George Steinbrenner may have been “certifiable,” but he made it clear he expected the best and did not accept laziness ..read more
New York Daily News » Opinion
7M ago
New Yorkers are no strangers to the echoing chants of a picket line, or the appearance of a looming inflatable rat on a corner. But even the most jaded urban dwellers can’t help feeling that there’s something happening with our city’s labor movement today ..read more