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An Important Reassurance

Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians have offered reasons why many of them don't want to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. They include that they've already had the virus and …

The Tell-Tale Emails

Mayor de Blasio has insisted that he played no role in the firing nearly four years ago of Ricardo Morales, a top Department of Citywide Administrative Services official with a glowing record in city …

Can't End Solitary Outright

Keith Powers, the Chairman of the City Council's Criminal Justice Committee, explained the bill he and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams are pushing to end solitary confinement in the jail system this …

Who's Out of This Picture?

December began with former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama volunteering to receive the coronavirus vaccine as a group and President-elect Joe Biden saying he would also get …

Redefining School Control

It is telling that, after 20 years in which his union had fractious relationships with the city's two previous Mayors, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew sought early on to build …

A Teachable Moment Lost

The increasing aversion to exposing students to the complexities of the real world because doing so might cause them an uncomfortable moment created another controversy, ensuring that battle lines …

Be Thankful and Careful

It's easy to mock Governor Cuomo for expecting law-enforcement officers to make sure on Thanksgiving that state residents obey his executive order limiting home gatherings to 10 persons. Several …

The Curious Case of 'Clouseau'

The NYPD has a serious problem. Either the commanding officer of its Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, James Kobel, has made more than 500 postings on a website, Law Enforcement Rant, known for …

EMS Upgrade Stops at Pay

The de Blasio administration announced Nov. 10 that over the next year, it will have Emergency Medical Service workers serve as first-responders to cases involving Emotionally Disturbed Persons …

Proud But Stupid

It has been a point of pride for the city Correction Department that it has kept the city jails from turning into coronavirus hot spots despite the potential for infections to spread widely, …

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