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Real Estate

A Selective ‘No Pets’ Policy

By RONDA KAYSEN | Apr 29th 2017

Can my landlord evict me for having a dog while advertising newly renovated apartments in the building as pet-friendly?

Short answer: no.

2

Well

Hitting a Medical Wall, and Turning to Unproven Treatments

By JANE E. BRODY | May 1st 2017

A new book details the cases of families that step outside the realm of established medicine because they feel they have no other choice.

Do what works.
If it does not work one is not more dead.

3

Today’s Paper

Quotation of the Day: Tax Cuts for Everybody, and Responsibility for Nobody

Apr 28th 2017

Quotation of the Day for Friday, April 28, 2017.

Debts belong to the future.

4

Opinion

Better Transit Solutions for New York

May 1st 2017

The Brooklyn borough president and a landscape architect offer their ideas.

Transit times of over an hour are impractical.
Rail and water are underutilized but slow and expensive locally.

Decentralization is necessary.

5

N.Y. / Region

Saying a Final Goodbye to a New York City Firefighter

By THE NEW YORK TIMES | Apr 27th 2017

William Tolley died in a fall while fighting a fire in Queens last week.

All dead firefighters are heroes.

6

Sunday Review

The Women Who Still Like Trump

By SUSAN CHIRA | Apr 29th 2017

“He doesn’t care what you think. I’m kind of that way, too, so I can respect that.”

Rare birds.
Fear is the basis.

7

Climate

Court Gives Trump Small Victory in Push Against Clean Power Plan

By CORAL DAVENPORT | Apr 28th 2017

An appeals court said it would delay a decision on the legality of the rule, which aims to tackle global warming by cutting emissions from coal-fired plants.

Coal has been the income of West Virginia.
Decisions in favor of income are easy.
Decisions in favor of the survival of distant descendants are more difficult.
If the present dies there is no future. 

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N.Y. / Region

Dietl’s Swipe at Judge and Mayor’s Wife May Cloud His G.O.P. Mayoral Bid

By WILLIAM NEUMAN and J. DAVID GOODMAN | Apr 27th 2017

Bo Dietl, who hopes to run for mayor as a Republican, defended himself against accusations of racism after saying he knew he “had a problem” with a black judge in a court case.

Bo Dietl should know better.

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U.S.

Gunman Killed in Mass Shooting at San Diego Pool Party

By GERRY MULLANY | May 1st 2017

At least one person was killed and six more wounded before the police shot and killed the attacker as he tried to reload his weapon, the authorities said.

Some people are crazy.

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U.S.

After Arkansas Execution, Questions Are Raised About Drug’s Effectiveness

By ALAN BLINDER | Apr 28th 2017

A condemned man experienced “coughing, convulsing, lurching, jerking” after the state administered midazolam, the first of three lethal injection drugs.

Dead is dead.

Let the courts decide in good time.


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