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Opinion: A Councilmember on Why He Opposes the Southern Boulevard Rezoning

‘As Mayor de Blasio once said, we can no longer tell the tale of two cities. Rezonings such as the one proposed for Southern Boulevard will ensure that tale lives…

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Opinion: Segregating Kids with Dyslexia is a Bad Idea

‘Marginalizing children with dyslexia and creating a safety valve for the DOE to claim it has solved the problem will not dent the reading deficits that plague our schools.’

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Opinion: Permanent Safety, Not Short-Term Fixes, Is What Domestic Violence Survivors Need

‘To end this cycle and significantly reduce family homelessness caused by domestic violence, we urge the city to move beyond short-term fixes.’

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Opinion: Sex Trafficking Happens Here, and to All Kinds of Kids

‘If we consider only the most salacious and sensationalized facets of sex trafficking, we neglect its most common victims,’

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Opinion: The Devastating Impact of NYC’s Failure to Deal With Dyslexia

‘So it’s not just about kids getting a fair and appropriate education. It’s about saving them – and us – the consequences of failure.’

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Opinion: Why We Should Not Send People with Substance Use Disorders to Jail

‘The misinformed notion that jailing people with substance use disorders is the best way to ensure they ‘get clean’ has harmful and even deadly consequences.’

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Opinion: NYC’s Borough Jails Will Make Incarceration a Local Problem

‘Individuals not currently concerned with our large jail population may start to care when they see what 3,300 really looks like.’

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Opinion: The Constitutional Case for ‘Medicare for All’

“Promoting the general welfare” is a part of our social DNA. It is featured in the United States Constitution in the Preamble and tasked to Congress to do in Article…

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Opinion: Starving the CUNY System Erodes an Engine for Equality

‘The cumulative consequences of systematic underfunding – the long-term weathering of CUNY – mark the erosion of New York’s commitments to democracy, racial justice, integration, freedom of expression, and association.’

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Opinion: What’s Happening to Retail on the Upper East Side?

‘This district’s retail character, the driver of so much energy and life, is in decay. ‘

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