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Opinion
Still Recovering From Hurricane Sandy
With reconstruction about to begin, funds from the Neediest Cases helps a woman move to temporary housing.Government does not do charity.
Business people can manage a charitable fund.
A publicly owned business may not contribute to charity.
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U.S.
Manhunt for Three Escaped Inmates in Southern California
Officials said the men, who are thought to be dangerous, cut through steel bars and rappelled from the roof of the Orange County Central Men’s Jail in Santa Ana.Two of these three were in jail for three years without trial.
Some guard is corrupt.
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Arts
Efforts to Drop Charges Against Cosby Are Meritless, Prosecutor Says
A district attorney in Pennsylvania hit back at attempts by Bill Cosby’s legal team to drop criminal charges against the entertainer.The prosecutor is acting improperly.
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Sports
Raptors Defeat Celtics for Sixth Straight Win; Wizards Top Depleted Heat
The Raptors won their season-high sixth straight game, 115-109, over the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night in Toronto.http://nytimes.stats.com/nba/scoreboard.asp
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| Boston (24 - 21) | |||||
| Washington (20 - 21) | |||||
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Sports
Steve Kerr Will Return to Coaching the Golden State Warriors
The Warriors announced on Friday that Kerr would return to the sidelines after he took a leave of absence to recover from back surgery complications.http://nytimes.stats.com/nba/standings.asp
NBA Division Standings
Division Standings | Conference Standings
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| Atlantic Division | ||||||||||||
| W | L | Pct | GB | Home | Road | Div | Conf | Last 10 | Streak | |||
| Toronto | 29 | 15 | .659 | -- | 15-6 | 14-9 | 7-1 | 20-8 | 8-2 | 8 W | ||
| Boston | 24 | 21 | .533 | 5.5 | 12-10 | 12-11 | 6-5 | 18-14 | 5-5 | 2 W | ||
| New York | 22 | 24 | .478 | 8.0 | 13-9 | 9-15 | 6-2 | 15-16 | 5-5 | 2 L | ||
| Brooklyn | 12 | 33 | .267 | 17.5 | 8-17 | 4-16 | 4-5 | 8-20 | 2-8 | 1 W | ||
| Philadelphia | 6 | 39 | .133 | 23.5 | 3-17 | 3-22 | 0-10 | 1-26 | 3-7 | 1 L | ||
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U.S.
Where Addiction Treatment Programs Are Taking Shape
Law enforcement agencies and organizations in several states are offering addicts referrals to treatment programs, either in lieu of arrest, as in Gloucester, Mass., or through direct outreach.Maintenance and twelve step programs
are all civilization has to offer addicts.
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The Upshot
Sanders Makes a Rare Pitch: More Taxes for More Government
Exploring the details of how Bernie Sanders’s single-payer health plan would be paid for.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/18/opinion/health-reform-realities.html
. . . "The
question for progressives — a question that is now central to the
Democratic primary — is whether these failings mean that they should
re-litigate their own biggest political success in almost half a
century, and try for something better.
My
answer, as you might guess, is that they shouldn’t, that they should
seek incremental change on health care (Bring back the public option!)
and focus their main efforts on other issues — that is, that Bernie
Sanders is wrong about this and Hillary Clinton is right. But the main
point is that we should think clearly about why health reform looks the
way it does."
. . .
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N.Y. / Region
U.S. Awards $281 Million to New York Region for Hurricane Protection
The largest single award, $176 million, will go to New York City to help build a new flood protection system around Lower Manhattan.The grant is "window dressing".
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N.Y. / Region
Fishing for Donations, With a Coat Hanger in Hand
Robert Krah, who is to be released from prison this week, was caught rooting around in the poor boxes of a church and a synagogue in Queens.Robert Krah does not understand entitlement.
Social Security is insurance.
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N.Y. / Region
Community Gardens Imperiled by New York’s Affordable Housing Plans
Many of the gardens occupy plots of land owned by the City of New York, leaving residents who have tended them for years with few options to oppose the changes.Community Gardens do not have title to the space they use.
The local government can evict them at any time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_%28property%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eviction
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World
Turkey: Teacher Jailed for Gesture
A court on Wednesday sentenced a teacher to almost a year in prison for making a rude gesture at President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a political rally in 2014.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate
12
Opinion
Did I Sentence a Murderer or a Cooperative Witness?
I had the chance to learn if a prisoner’s remorse was strong enough to overcome his past.The answer is yes.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
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N.Y. / Region
Pedicab Operators See Loss of Livelihood in de Blasio’s Plan
Pedicab operators, who say they are already scorned and powerless, face the prospect of losing customers if they are banned from Central Park below 85th Street.Correct.
14
Sports
Seven New Breeds Added
Seven new breeds will have a shot at being best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club event at Madison Square Garden next month.I would be happy to accompany you to the show.
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U.S.
Blizzard Watch Expands to Include New York City Area
After hitting Washington on Friday, the storm will move north, with high winds and up to 10 inches of snow expected Saturday.http://www.wunderground.com/blog/wundergroundlive/major-winter-storm-set-to-bring-heavy-snow-ice-wind-to-large-swath-o#live-stream
http://www.wunderground.com/news/
http://www.wunderground.com/news/winter-storm-jonas-rank-in-history
http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/national_forecast/natfcst.php
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N.Y. / Region
Review: At Communal Kitchen, a Local Harvest Through All Seasons
Communal Kitchen’s changing menu makes the most of fresh ingredients sourced from the Hudson River Valley.A Fashionable establishment.
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Sports
Ana Ivanovic and John Isner Reach Third Round in Melbourne
In a match that was suspended when a spectator fell on the stairs at Rod Laver Arena, Ana Ivanovic of Serbia advanced to the third round of the Australian Open.http://www.boston.com/sports?p1=Levelone_Nav_sports_hp
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox?p1=menu_sports_more_redsox
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Sports
Knicks Show Little but Midseason Malaise in Loss to Hornets
A day after the Knicks’ worst defeat of the season, an aching Carmelo Anthony scored only 9 points and sat out the final quarter in Charlotte.http://nytimes.stats.com/nba/scoreboard.asp
| 7:00 PM ET | CSNE/CSNM | ||||
| Boston (24 - 21) | |||||
| Washington (20 - 21) | |||||
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U.S.
Michigan: Lawmakers Try to Toughen Strike Laws
Angered by teacher sickouts that have closed many Detroit schools, majority Republicans in Michigan’s Legislature proposed legislation to make it easier to deem such work stoppages illegal strikes.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/opinion/michigans-great-stink.html
. . . "Nor are we talking only about a handful of cases. Public construction
spending as a share of national income has fallen sharply in recent
years, reflecting cutbacks by state and local governments that are ever
less interested in providing public goods for the future. And this
includes sharp cuts in spending on water supply.
So
are we just talking about the effects of ideology? Didn’t Flint find
itself in the cross hairs of austerity because it’s a poor, mostly
African-American city? Yes, that’s definitely part of what happened — it
would be hard to imagine something similar happening to Grosse Pointe.
But
these really aren’t separate stories. What we see in Flint is an all
too typically American situation of (literally) poisonous interaction
between ideology and race, in which small-government extremists are
empowered by the sense of too many voters that good government is simply
a giveaway to Those People.
Now what? Mr. Snyder has finally expressed some contrition,
although he’s still withholding much of the information we need to
fully understand what happened. And meanwhile we are, inevitably, being
told that we shouldn’t make the poisoning of Flint a partisan issue.
But
you can’t understand what happened in Flint, and what will happen in
many other places if current trends continue, without understanding the
ideology that made the disaster possible."
N.Y. / Region
De Blasio Vows Better Coordination as New York Prepares for Snowstorm
With up to a foot of snow expected to fall on Saturday, Mayor Bill de Blasio urged New Yorkers to stay home and said he expected the subways to stay open.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/nyregion/as-new-yorkers-dig-out-from-storm-most-quickly-return-to-normal.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/nyregion/praise-for-de-blasio-and-cuomo-but-complaints-in-queens-after-blizzard.html
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