“Gov. Kathy Hochul and her administration should immediately reconsider the proposed regulations targeting pharmacy benefits and refocus efforts on policies that actually improve affordability for prescription drugs—especially for minority and vulnerable populations—not make matters worse.”
The legislation introduced in the City Council last week is geared at keeping tenants in flood-prone basement apartments out of harm’s way.
Environmentalists say an Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to protect the city from coastal storms using walls and gates fails to address other climate change-related threats, like heavy rainfall.
Recycling rates around longtime existing requirements—which ask residents to separate paper, plastics, metal and glass from the rest of their trash—have failed to improve over the last decade. Getting New Yorkers to comply with yet another set of rules could be an uphill battle, experts say.
“While the federal government—and a growing number of states—are taking action to confront the dual challenges of climate change and workforce development, New York has fallen short.”
The city’s more than 300 Older Adult Centers saw an average of 24,261 daily participants during the last fiscal year that ended in June, still shy of pre-pandemic numbers but up nearly 28 percent since 2021-2022.
Puerto Rico fue incluido en 1974 en el programa de cupones de alimentos o el programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria (o SNAP por sus siglas en inglés, como también se le conoce), pero en 1982 fue sacado del programa. En su lugar, en Puerto Rico hay un programa limitado llamado Programa de Asistencia Nutricional (PAN), o NAP por sus siglas en inglés, con fondos limitados.
“They knew it was going to rain Friday,” said Cynthia Tibbs, the tenant association president at NYCHA’s West Side Urban Redevelopment (WSUR) brownstones, where ceilings in three apartments collapsed following the heavy downpour. “This is a NYCHA problem where you don’t make sure your workers have all drains cleared and all leaves out of gutters.”
“I haven’t slept at all, I panic every time it pours hard rain,” one basement tenant in Brooklyn told City Limits after water began to breach her apartment early Friday morning.
“Without Hochul’s swift action, New York State honeybee colonies will continue to log record losses, and 40-60 percent of the state’s native bees and other pollinators will remain at risk of disappearing.”
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