Adi Talwar
An empty polling site in The Bronx during the first primary in June.
The legal battle over redistricting this year resulted in two primaries for New York, including Tuesday’s rare August contests for State Senate and Congress. City Limits spoke to city residents about what they’re looking out for this second summer Election Day—or if they’re looking at all.
Más de un mes después de que la Corte Suprema permitiera a la administración Biden poner fin al programa de los Protocolos de Protección al Migrante, mejor conocido como “Permanecer en México” o MPP por sus siglas, la administración Biden procede a dar de baja a los inmigrantes que todavía estaban inscritos en el MPP y con ello finalmente se empieza a desmantelar dicho programa.
“If everything…is just a question of ‘Does the local community support or not support it,’ the answer will almost, inevitably, always be ‘no,’ so it can’t just be that, it has to be a broader consideration,” the former councilmember said during an interview on the WBAI radio program City Watch.
“It should be abundantly clear that the stamp of a landmark designation alone does not keep a building standing. If financial viability and structural integrity are in question, landmarking should be postponed, until a game plan for rehabilitation is fleshed out.”
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