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States Team Up To Fight Climate Change

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09/21/2017

States Team Up To Fight Climate Change A group of states adhering to the initial U.S. commitment to the Paris climate accord ... Trump said he would withdraw from the Paris agreement in ...

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A Baseline for Success: Creating Sustainable PPPs

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09/22/2017

A Baseline for Success: Creating Sustainable PPPs To develop and sustain successful public-private ... and replication opportunities. It’s also important to consider how the political and partnership landscape may...

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Sustainable Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself

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09/25/2017

... Every Company Should Ask Itself In his book ‘The Way to Design,” Steve Vassalo quotes John Arnold, who taught a course at Stanford in the early ‘60s called ‘How to Ask a Question’: “Each of man’s advances was...

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How Much Time Was Spent on Subway? M.T.A. Can Now Tell You

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09/26/2017

... on-time performance has been flawed and has failed to provide riders with information that matched their ...

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De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection

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10/03/2017

De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection Mayor de ... “When I sign things, I guess it’s one less word I have to write,” Sapienza, who started as an...

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Mayor De Blasio Eyes 'Ideal' Queens Site For New Jail As Rikers Shuts Down

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10/03/2017

... eyeing a now-shuttered Queens jail as an “ideal” spot to house prisoners as Rikers Island shuts down. After eleven ... would be an ideal first step and we have already started to take a hard look at this site...

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Robots Are Replacing Fast Food Workers At New Shake Shack

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10/03/2017

... will replace humans and cash won’t be accepted at a soon- to -open Shake Shack in the East Village, reps for the popular ... kiosks inside the restaurant, which is scheduled to open an Astor Place branch later...

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Kessler Foundation Awards Reeves-Reed Arboretum with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project

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10/03/2017

Kessler Foundation Awards Reeves-Reed Arboretum with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project The mission of Reeves-Reed Arboretum is to engage, educate, and enrich the lives of visitors to .....

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NYers Face Harsher ATM Fees Than Nearly Anyone in Nation, Study Finds

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10/04/2017

... Study Finds If it feels like you're constantly paying more to withdraw your own money from an ATM not affiliated with ... hit a record high for the 11th straight year, according to the latest study from...

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Republicans Are Reconsidering Full Repeal of State and Local Tax Deduction

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10/04/2017

... Republican leaders are backing away from a proposal to fully repeal an expensive tax break used by more than 40 million tax filers to deduct state and local taxes amid pushback from fellow ... estimated...

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UN Moves To Blacklist Saudi Coalition For Violations Against Children In Yemen

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10/05/2017

UN Moves To Blacklist Saudi Coalition For Violations Against Children ... conceded that the coalition has put in place measures to improve child protection. It is the first time the annual ... between parties that...

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New York City Students Are Getting Younger

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10/05/2017

... expansion is not happening in quite the same blitz as its massive scale-up of classes for 4-year-olds, when the city added nearly 50,000 full-day pre-k seats to the school system over the course of two years...

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Opinion: What’s Holding Philanthropists Back?

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10/06/2017

... holding us back. Improving the capacity of funders to invest more equitably will involve larger, longer, less ... talking about it powerfully with donors. And it’s going to mean investing directly in the...

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U.S. Lost 33,000 Jobs in September as Hurricanes Roared Through

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10/06/2017

... Hurricanes Roared Through The Labor Department released its official hiring and unemployment figures for September on ... expected very modest employment gains of 80,000, according to Bloomberg. The hurricanes...

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Where You Live, How You Give: What a Fidelity Study Says About U.S. Donors

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10/06/2017

... and reach of Fidelity Charitable's grantmaking is hard to overstate. In 2016, donors recommended 849,000 grants that totaled $3.5 billion and went to 114,000 organizations. Around 90,000 donors had .....

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For the Disabled, New York’s Sidewalks Are an Obstacle Course

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10/10/2017

... at sidewalk corners where the curb ramp is too broken to roll over or missing altogether. He has to keep going around the block until he finds a usable ramp. The one time he tried to roll off...

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Long-Held Political, Ethnic Rivalries Heating Up Fight Over Brooklyn Pfizer Site

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10/10/2017

... On Tuesday, the City Council will hold what is expected to be a spirited and well-attended hearing on the latest ... is planning a 1,146-unit building at a site formerly home to pharmaceutical giant Pfizer...

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SUNY Revises Controversial Proposal to Let Some New York Charter Schools Certify Their Own Teachers

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10/10/2017

SUNY Revises Controversial Proposal to Let Some New York Charter Schools Certify Their Own ... charter schools has revised a hotly contested proposal to let its schools certify their own teachers...

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Bay Area Arts, Education Nonprofits to Receive Hearst Grants

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10/13/2017

Bay Area Arts, Education Nonprofits to Receive Hearst Grants The Hearst Foundations this week ... Bay Area initiatives. The largest of the area grants went to UC Berkeley, which received $250,000 for marketing...

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De Blasio Says No Notice Needed from City when Entire Hotels Get Rented to Shelter the Homeless

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10/13/2017

... No Notice Needed from City when Entire Hotels Get Rented to Shelter the Homeless Despite criticism from local elected ... Mayor de Blasio said Thursday the city does not need to provide advance notice when it...

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