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Opinion: Don’t Puncture the City’s Lungs By Cutting Park Funds

‘In these scary days of coronavirus, Central Park and the other green spaces in our city refresh and reassure us; even though we need to stay six feet apart due…

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Opinion: COVID-19’s Toll Forces a Focus on NYC’s Underlying Health Risks

‘If we have imagined that the oncoming locomotive of COVID-19 has left us no time to bring these underlying conditions under better control, it is time to think again. ‘

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Opinion: Mayor de Blasio, Release Juvenile Detainees

‘We write to express our concern over the city’s failure to sufficiently address the health risks faced by our clients in detention, and we call upon the mayor to release…

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Opinion: NYers With Addiction Face Serious COVID-19 Risks

‘In times of heightened anxiety, many people who suffer from addiction are also more susceptible to relapses and overdose. Now more than ever, the state must help cover their costs…

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Opinion: Don’t Cancel Rent Without Protecting Homeowners

‘We cannot advocate to ‘cancel rent’ as a singular measure without considering the unintended, yet foreseeable, harm to other marginalized groups.’

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Opinion: Cuomo’s Next Task as a National Leader is to Spare Prisoners from COVID-19

‘COVID-19 creates the basis for a new standard of parole release that evaluates people for who they are today. This would prevent more death and suffering from this virus and…

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Crossing a COVID Nation: Our Lost Highway

When the hospitals in NYC were overrun, the death toll was out of control, folks had lost their jobs, patients had to split ventilators due to a shortage, and he’d…

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Opinion: Amid the COVID-19 Crisis, School Budget Cuts are the Wrong Medicine

The mayor’s proposed cuts are ‘devastating and a further disadvantage for schools that were struggling before a pandemic. Combined with the concentrated impact of the virus on low-income families, it’s…

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Opinion: The Role We Must Play in Countering Racist Scapegoating Around COVID-19

‘To make sure that this period of physical distancing becomes an opportunity for social solidarity, teachers and other unionists should speak out against anti-Asian racism with their students and co-workers.…

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Opinion: If Ever There Were a Time for Clemency, It’s Now

‘Arnie candidly wrote that he was convicted of a double homicide in Brooklyn. ‘I make no bones about it, I was a bad guy.’ He’ll first be eligible for…

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