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Manhattan DA Lightens Marijuana Penalties in New Policy

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09/06/2017

Manhattan DA Lightens Marijuana Penalties in New Policy Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced ... Donald Trump's immigration policies — specifically the use of courts to identify and deport...

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Justice Reform

Review Board Recommends Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case

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09/11/2017

... Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case The Civilian Complaint Review Board ... the NYPD discipline the cop who used a banned chokehold in the death of Eric Garner in...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation CEO Comments On Federal Debt Passing $20 Trillion For First Time

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09/12/2017

"Surpassing $20 trillion in debt is the latest indicator of our nation's dire fiscal condition," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the fiscally conservative Peter G. Peterson Foundation.

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Diverse Charter Schools In New York City to Get Boost from Walton Money

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09/14/2017

Diverse Charter Schools In New York City to Get Boost from Walton Money The Walton ... Tuesday to invest $2.2 million over the next two years in new charter schools in New York City that aim to...

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Gates Commits $20 Million to Women's Groups

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09/21/2017

... groups worldwide, Ms. Gates said Wednesday during an event in New York. While details are still forthcoming, the ... training, and groups of other donors already active in the field. It will also be used to...

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The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern

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09/26/2017

... investigative leads and given prosecutors ammunition in court. But as the police have gotten more aggressive about ... without any laws and little oversight over how they can use it. As the science advances...

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Justice Reform

Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an African Burial Ground

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09/27/2017

Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an African Burial Ground For not quite two centuries starting in the mid-1660s, when a Dutch village was established under ... on a zoning framework to put the same land to...

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Ford Funds at the Crossroads of Immigration and Artistic Activism

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09/29/2017

... with mentors and strengthen immigrant artist communities in those four cities, using NYFA's Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program in New York, NY as an impactful model for replication. NYFA, ... with a...

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Republicans Are Reconsidering Full Repeal of State and Local Tax Deduction

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10/04/2017

... elimination of the provision has emerged as a flash point in the nascent debate over the plan, with Republicans in high-tax states worried about backlash from residents who ...

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Economic Security

Can Redevelopment of the Bedford Union Armory Be Saved?

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10/04/2017

... Redevelopment of the Bedford Union Armory Be Saved? A land use proposal to redevelop the 138,000-square-foot, publicly-owned Bedford Union Armory in Crown Heights to create a mix of different types of .....

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New York State Health Foundation releases new data snapshot "Health Care Spending Trends in New York State"

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10/04/2017

... releases new data snapshot "Health Care Spending Trends in New York State" This NYSHealth-produced data snapshot ... care spending overall and per capita are among the highest in the nation. Health...

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Four Communities Are to Receive Smart Growth Funds, Cuomo Announces

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10/05/2017

... Smart Growth Funds, Cuomo Announces Four communities in Western New York will receive up to $2.5 million in state funding apiece to enhance their assets and help ... announced the funding during a news...

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

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10/10/2017

... said Mr. Jones, 29, a disability rights advocate who lives in the Bronx. “I believe it’s very unfair. These types of things should not be happening in a city like this.” . . . For the Disabled, New York’s ...

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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

... Though the basic elements of the original proposal remains in tact, prospective teachers will now be required to sit for ... reduced), and they now must pass one of the exams used in the traditional...

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Commonwealth Fund Analysis Shows how Disastrous the Medicaid Work Requirement Would be, Given the Opioid Crisis

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01/12/2018

... state has one of the highest rates of overdose deaths in the country, and its Medicaid spending on prescriptions for opioid use disorders jumped 326 percent from 2011 to 2016, to $64 ... million. Kentucky also...

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Study Supported by Doris Duke Foundation Reveals Mumps Resurgence Due to Waning Vaccine Protection in Adults

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03/23/2018

... Reveals Mumps Resurgence Due to Waning Vaccine Protection in Adults In the study, which was published in Science Translational ... within 38 years. The researchers concluded that routine...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Supports Habitat for Humanity Worcester County Build

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10/26/2018

... Foundation for its upcoming single-family home build in Bishopville, this fall. The Weinberg Foundation is one of the largest private charitable foundations in the United States. This is the first time Habitat...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Gene Editing Research to Identify Gene that Controls Butterfly Wing Color

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10/26/2018

... by scientists from the University of Chicago shows that in one species, Heliconius cydno, just one gene controls ... the butterfly has white or yellow spots on its wings. In the study, published Oct. 25...

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First-of-its-kind Study From the Century Foundation: How Well Does Your State Support Integration in Charter Schools?

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04/04/2019

... Foundation: How Well Does Your State Support Integration in Charter Schools? With the enrollment flexibility and ... at the charter school policies and enrollment patterns in the forty-three states, plus the...

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