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Immigrant groups that have used school boards as a portal into politics were relieved when the feds shot down a plan to dismantle the current election system. But confusion about…

ByEzequiel Minaya 0Comments

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Mar 1999

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Painted into a Corner

The mayor, city councilmembers, children’s advocates and landlords all agree that the city needs a new lead paint law. They just can’t decide what it should say.

ByLeon Lazaroff 0Comments

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Feb 1999

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Since the late 1970s, the city’s Tenant Interim Lease program has been helping low-income renters become apartment owners. As TIL celebrates its 20th anniversary, advocates are fighting charges that the…

ByJames Bradley and Glenn Thrush 0Comments

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Feb 1999

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New Havens

A Park Slope battered women’s shelter is reaching out to two very different groups of women: lesbians and Arab Americans.

ByDylan Foley 0Comments

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Feb 1999

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Clinically Oppressed

Pregnant immigrants are shunning prenatal care for fear of deportation. What are they afraid of?

ByIdra Rosenberg 0Comments

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Jan 1999

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The Teacher

He’s a karate instructor, founder of a local newspaper and a neighborhood organizer. If Joe Lopez can’t solve your problem, he’ll adopt a profession that can.