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Opinion: Legal and Financial Advice Must Be Part of Every Community’s Disaster Response Kit

‘Having a non-profit lawyer or housing advocate on your side as you navigate insurance, mortgage relief, and complex federal and local regulations impeding your recovery can make all the difference.’

Health Opinion

Opinion: Tighten New York’s School Immunization Law

‘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…

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CityViews: Is New York’s Mental-Health System Listening to the Peers Who’ve Lived It?

Out of the psychiatry-reform movements of the late 20th Century came a remarkable innovation: ‘Peer workers’ who have experienced mental-heath crises working alongside other clinicians. But are today’s peers right…

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CityViews: Crisis at Federal Jail Highlights Ongoing Crime of Solitary Confinement

Is this the year New York State finally reins in a punishment that is almost universally regarding as a violation of human rights?

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CityViews: Save the NY Program that Keeps Homeowners Out of Foreclosure

‘This is the type of investment that will pay for itself tenfold by keeping our neighbors in their homes and by keeping our communities strong.’

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CityViews: How to Close the Racial Gap at the Frontier of Medicine

‘If those of us in the medical community are to better understand the mechanisms of medical interventions in different ethnic groups, we need better representation in trials.’

Land Use and Development Opinion

CityViews: The Two Bridges Development Mess has a Two-Letter Answer—No!

‘If the tower proposal violates the deed, shouldn’t the city then rescind the permit for the tower?’

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CityViews: Cuomo’s Clean Energy Agenda is Ambitious. But it’s Not Ambitious Enough.

‘The governor has proposed speeding up to 2040 his target for going to 100 percent clean electricity. We believe we can go faster. ‘

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CityViews: It Will Take More Than the Dream Act for NY to Truly Welcome Immigrants

‘Passing Dream alone is not enough for legislators or the governor to check off the box and say enough has been done for our communities.’

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CityViews: Albany’s Teacher Evaluation Reform Still Gives Too Much Power to Tainted Tests

‘Because the law required a test score for evaluations, state test scores were simply replaced by scores from locally-chosen tests. But it gets even more insane.’

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