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Opinion: An Open Letter to Speaker Heastie on Mayoral Control

‘Our members know what is needed for schools to succeed—they have lived it as students themselves, and they are experiencing it with their children and neighbors.’

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Opinion: City’s New and Tougher Lead Laws Demand New and Tougher Enforcement

‘To successfully protect our youth and eliminate lead poisoning, the city will need to be vigilant in enforcing the new standards and fostering a culture of compliance with lead laws.’

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Opinion: ‘Close Rikers’ Eschews Real Reform for a Real-Estate Drama

‘The ‘Build New Jails’ advocates have adopted a two-step Bait and Switch political strategy that is oddly familiar.’

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Opinion: Single-Payer Long-Term Care Would Be Good News for NY’s Women

Family caregivers (who are mostly women) across New York State provide $31 billion of free care each year.

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Opinion: Let’s Blanket the City With Life-Saving Speed Cameras

‘A city that prioritizes the lives of a majority of its people over the demands and convenience of automobile drivers would not hesitate to saturate every city street, avenue and…

Health Opinion

Opinion: New York City Students Need Wellness Education

‘Put simply, setting aside time for meditation each week makes people better learners and better human beings. Isn’t that what we want for all our children?’

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Opinion: Time for Albany to Harvest Long Overdue Crop of Justice for NYS Farmworkers

‘For the farmworkers of New York State, the Farmworkers Fair Labors Practices Act (FFLPA) is a promising remediation to exploitative labor practices, poor living conditions and a pernicious exemption from…

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Opinion: Loophole Means Criminal Charges Set to be Dismissed Still Upend Lives in NYS

An ‘ACD’ is a common mechanism in our criminal legal system to dismiss and seal all charges. But while pending, the charges are accessible to the public – including employers.

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Opinion: NYC’s Working Women Face Economic Risks, Safety Concerns, Barriers to Power

There is ‘incontrovertible evidence that all the hard paid and unpaid labors of New York’s women of color and immigrant women across all the years of their lives provides no…

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Opinion: More Transparency Needed on Brooklyn’s Tainted Convictions

‘For the first time, the DA’s office released a public report on an overturned conviction. Yet while it describes the police investigation, trial and subsequent findings in considerable detail, the…

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