The city’s primary independent police oversight agency has so many board member vacancies — including the chair position — it was initially unable to conduct routine operational matters at its monthly meeting last week. The 15-member Civilian Complaint Review Board currently has five board openings, Those include a vacant chair after Arva Rice, who’d served […]
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Logistical delays and difficult terrain have stalled multiple deployment projects, all of which are under a federal deadline for completion. A $30 million pot of state money might help speed things along.
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Tasha Nickols takes pride in being a go-getter. She never shied away from working extra hours as a nursing assistant. Still, it wasn’t enough to keep Nickols and her three children from becoming homeless. She felt demoralized having to call the United Way 2-1-1 Help Center early this year to find space in a shelter. […]
A company once owned by Deputy Mayor Philip Banks III that snared a $150-million city Housing Authority contract has been greenlighted by the Adams administration to qualify for no-bid security contracts at the city’s burgeoning network of migrant shelters. Last November the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) placed the company, Overwatch Services, on a […]
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ITHACA, N.Y. — Sitting water and sunny days after a weekend of rain created a perfect storm last month. Slowly at first, colonies of cyanobacteria began to form visible green […]
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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here.Dr. Ashwin Vasan, New York City’s health commissioner, announced Monday that he plans to leave his position in early January.“It has truly been the honor of my…
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here.The first person to be diagnosed with eastern equine encephalitis in New York state in nearly a decade has died, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office announced Monday.Th…
Anura Kumara Dissanayake touted his victory as a ‘fresh start’ for the South Asian nation, two years after it came to the brink of economic collapse.
Just two years into the tenure of its first Black and first woman principal, historic Central High has been named a national Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education — for a record-setting third time.Central is the country’s second oldest…
Four Colorado schools are among more than 350 nationwide to be named 2024 National Blue Ribbon Schools for high achievement or progress in narrowing achievement gaps.Zach Elementary in Fort Collins and DSST Cedar High School in Denver won the designati…