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N.Y. / Region
Mayor de Blasio Scrambles to Curb Homelessness After Years of Not Keeping Pace
A surge in homelessness, and criticism of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s handling of it, has become one of the visible and vexing issues of his first three years in office."Pushing on a string."
The disenfranchised travel to the cities in search of support.
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Opinion
Donald Trump’s Dangerous Attacks on the Press
By demonizing the news media, the president-elect threatens to undermine aggressive, responsible journalism that seeks to hold government accountable.Journalists should have destroyed Trump's credibility before matters came to a vote.
Journalists can and should destroy his credibility now and in the future.
Trump and his supporters will continue to resist and counter those attacks.
When truth is under attack there is no neutral corner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_(disambiguation)
Objective truth, the idea that, regardless of beliefs, some things are true for everyone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity_(philosophy)
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Business Day
Amazon to Add 100,000 Jobs as Bricks-and-Mortar Retail Crumbles
The announcement by the online giant reflects what an economist sees as an inevitable process in which new industries rise and replace old ones.Craft production is a form of retail.
Cities exist by and for retail.
Cities are not company towns.
A company town may have more than one company.
If retail is moved to virtual space there is no reason for cities.
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N.Y. / Region
Justice Dept. Seeks to Join Suit Over 117,000 Purged Brooklyn Voters
A filing accused the New York City Board of Elections of not taking needed steps before names were removed from the rolls for the April primary.There are other targets.
Brooklyn is an easy target.
Fight all the battles.
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N.Y. / Region
U.S. Threatens to Sue New York State Over Voting Violations
The Justice Department said the Department of Motor Vehicles has failed to allow drivers’ license applications to double as applications for voter registration.The Republican Party controls the legislature.
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Travel
Affordable Fitness Getaways in January
Hotels are offering packages that include yoga, spin classes, spa treatments and healthy eating.I can suffer anywhere.
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Business Day
3 Takata Executives Face Criminal Charges Over Exploding Airbags
U.S. prosecutors charged the executives in a case that involved 11 deaths and instigated the largest automotive recall in American history.A charge is not an arrest and conviction.
Takata may yet survive.
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Times Insider
The Robot That Performed My Kidney Transplant Declined to Be Interviewed
How donating a vital organ to a fellow “news nerd” helped a Times data journalist overcome postelection Twitter fatigue and gain a better understanding of robot p.r.There is more to twitter than I found.
Email and websites are vital to getting things done.
For some things physical presence is necessary.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Real Estate
$700,000 Homes in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida
An 18th-century farmhouse in Glen Mills, Pa., and midcentury moderns in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Sarasota, Fla.None of these make me happy.
Glen Mills, Pa. is the best of them.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Glen+Mills,+PA/@39.9116369,-75.5439654,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c6efac4e2f443b:0xa3381690d7eb69d9!8m2!3d39.9016273!4d-75.5103484
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