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At the first of the two City Council oversight hearings on Amazon. The third planned one will not occur.
Whether you blame or credit the opponents for killing the deal, or chalk it up to weird company decision-making, and whether you are pleased or peeved that the deal is dead, the important question is: What happens now?
On Thursday, Amazon announced that it was pulling out of its planned HQ2 in Long Island City. Here’s what elected officials, candidates, unions, advocacy groups and business organizations had to say about it
While it seems almost certain the rent laws will be tightened it’s less sure that the geographic reach of the laws will be expanded.
The Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program or CDPAP pays for home-health aides and family caregivers. The state recently has subjected the program to major changes and more might be coming.
The state’s ‘severe and pervasive’ threshold for harassment must go, says Rita Pasarell. But other changes are also needed.
‘New York, an epicenter of increased measles exposure, can take a major step nationally and internationally in controlling this and other serious disease with a common-sense statutory reform of school immunization requirements.’
The former speaker joined Max & Murphy to talk about NYCHA, the need for a woman’s voice at the citywide level, and what she thinks of the anti-gay comments of a Bronx Councilmember.
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