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N.Y. / Region
40 Port Authority Officers Could Be Disciplined in Neglect of Duty
Several officers were found to have spent more than six hours of their shifts in a break room, the agency’s Police Department said in a news release.Security theater costs more.
There must be enough guards to look dramatic.
Double shifts are not sustainable.
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Travel
Zika Fears Fading, Renewed Interest in Caribbean and Mexico
Travelers are booking trips after the World Health Organization said that the virus was no longer a global health emergency.The Zika virus has not gone away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/health/zika-case-texas.html
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Real Estate
Harassing the Super
A co-op board is responsible for protecting its employees from shareholders behaving badly — even if they’re lawyers (or just litigious).The tenant should move. Get him a basement apartment.
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N.Y. / Region
In Kayak Death Case, Jury Will See Police Interrogation Video
Jurors will be able to watch almost all of an 11-hour video of the police questioning Angelika Graswald, who is charged with the 2015 murder of her fiancé.Her defense attorneys have a problem.
She is guilty.
She should have left him sooner.
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Opinion
Will Rick Perry Be the Energy Department’s Undoing?
The former Texas governor famously vowed to eliminate the department. Soon he may lead it."The big question, of course, is whether Mr. Perry and Mr. Trump have the interest or ability to pursue an ambitious agenda, or whether they are determined to carry on an ideological war against climate science."
Ideological warfare seems most likely.
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Opinion
Loretta Lynch’s Parting Message
The departing attorney general reminded marginalized communities that change often comes from the ground up."It is sobering to hear a departing attorney general implicitly telling vulnerable Americans that the federal government may fail to protect their rights and that they will have to do this work themselves. But any other message would whitewash the painful truth."
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World
Trump Pulls Out of Brazil Hotel Project Named in Criminal Inquiry
The hotel and another Trump venture in the city had been named in a federal investigation over investments by public pension fund managers in commercial projects.The rump of Trump.
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N.Y. / Region
De Blasio Insists His Administration Will Be Cleared in Fund-Raising Inquiries
The mayor said in a radio interview that his office “did things the right way,” referring to investigations that are being heard by separate grand juries in Manhattan."A skilled prosecutor can get a grand jury to indight a ham sandwitch."
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Opinion
The City Could Have Saved This 6-Year-Old
The point of a child-welfare system in a city like New York is to make sure that no child falls through the cracks.Staff and pay The Administration for Children’s Services.
The case load on individual agents is unmanageable.
If the financial burden will ruin the city government the city government must change.
Chattel slavery is not an option.
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U.S.
Plan to Reduce Medicare Drug Costs Is Withdrawn After Bipartisan Criticism
More than 300 House members expressed concern about the proposal, which would have usedreimbursement formulas different from those in federal Medicare law.
"“We are actively reforming every other aspect of our health care system to pay for value except pharmaceuticals,” Ms. Schakowsky said in the spring. “Drug manufacturers are the only entity that can charge Medicare anything they want.”"
Allow Medicare to bargain with the drug manufacturers as the Veterans Administration is allowed to do.
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