Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Mamdani’s New Health Commissioner Is an Unexpected Pick
This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. The new health commissioner for New York City is a Harvard-educated emergency physician and former White House fellow who has spent the past several years in Boston combining medicine with advocacy work, burnishing a resume that leans more toward health care than […]
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Deep Freeze Tests City Sanitation Workers
City sanitation workers battling massive snow and ice piles left by last week’s storm have kept up with trash collection — but have fallen a day behind on recyclables. “Given that the same sanitation workers who pick up trash have been clearing the foot of snow and ice that fell last Sunday, we are about […]
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LISTEN: A New Mayor Navigates a Frigid City
Just a month into this new era, Zohran Mamdani is trying to get his feet under him as the ground remains icy and precarious. The FAQ NYC hosts discuss that and much more, including a deluge of fake news about the new mayor online and the last governor’s new talk show.
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City Council Staffer Denied Bond, Deemed ‘Danger to Society’
An immigration judge on Monday denied bond to a Venezuelan City Council staffer being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention upstate. Immigration Judge Charles Conroy, who has one of the lowest asylum grant rates in New York City held a 20-minute hearing Monday morning at the Varick Street immigration court. He then denied Rafael […]
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Getting Burned on Home Heating Oil? More Than Half of Firms Failed Inspections
This story was produced in conjunction with the NYCity News Service and with the support of the Equity Through Data Projectat the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. About half of the companies that deliver home heating oil to New Yorkers failed at least one inspection of truck gauges meant to ensure residents […]
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