Friday Links
Fivefold Increase in Students Repeating a Grade [NY Times] City Says Investigation Uncovers Illegal Apartments [NY Times] Brooklyn’s Mile-Long Street Fair With Moxie [NY Times] Storm Cleanup Is Slow Going [Wall Street Journal] Marty Pitches Ideas for Floyd Bennett Field [NY Post] Bloomberg Sharp in Distancing Himself from Lopez [NY Post] New Farmers Market Opens…
Fivefold Increase in Students Repeating a Grade [NY Times]
City Says Investigation Uncovers Illegal Apartments [NY Times]
Brooklyn’s Mile-Long Street Fair With Moxie [NY Times]
Storm Cleanup Is Slow Going [Wall Street Journal]
Marty Pitches Ideas for Floyd Bennett Field [NY Post]
Bloomberg Sharp in Distancing Himself from Lopez [NY Post]
New Farmers Market Opens In Boerum Hill [Brooklyn Eagle]
City Unveils Urbancanvas Design Finalists [The Real Deal]
Curbed National Out for World Domination [NYO]
Curbed National is an interior decoration blog! Now another way for me to waste time. Oh no!!!
Hee hee hee sofas. I bet those have some fiber! It’s good for them!!!
Who is getting government assistance? The farmers growing the subsidized corn. That’s why sugar, soda, and chips are cheaper than fresh produce.
Hey, bxgrl, hope you’re feeling better (albeit poorer). The old Board of Ed was so bad they had to give it a new name – it’s now the Department of Ed, if you please (or DOE). I don’t think that’s changed much else, however, and I think many of the abuses we see in NYC public schools originate there, rather then at the UFT level (though they’re pretty crappy too).
When we were trying to get a charter school approved in my neighborhood, the UFT went on a rampage, sending notices home with children to give to their parents stating that the charter school was a conspiracy started by “new” (read white) people in the neighborhood to divert funds from “old” residents’ children’s education and to separate the two groups.
I’ve never seen such open manipulation of peoples’ fears and out-and-out lying (except possibly in the Republican Party) – it created quite a painful divide in our community, one that is now healing, thankfully, with the successful opening of our new charter school, with a very diverse student population from throughout the district.
Mopar;
Kids eating sofas? Wow, that is bad!
Sorry, don’t buy your argument. Just because one is receiving government assistance does not absolve one from taking responsibility for his or her health.
Talk about blaming and punishing the victim, Benson. When you’re working three low-paying jobs and have no time or money, it makes complete rational sense to feed your kids cheap, subsidized sofa and chips.
Talk about blaming and punishing the victim, Benson. When you’re working three low-paying jobs and have no time or money, it makes complete rational sense to feed your kids cheap, subsidized sofa and chips.
more likely they would base premiums on DNA tests.
It’s the Board of Ed too, dave. My sister and brother-in-law are teachers. The stories they can tell about BOD policies, and just mention the union, my BIL goes ballistic. Teachers are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
:Snappy- got the bill for my emergency room excursion the other day. 1750$. For a 7 hour wait, a 20 minute doctor visit and an ambulance ride. The ambulance was almost 800$ and no- they only filled out papers in the ambulance. No oxygen, no iv, no monitoring. Most expensive taxi ride I ever had. That’s the reality of health care in this country. At least with a health care bill we may have some hope (not that benson would approve, I’m sure).
“Tons of people are suffering due to a lack of access to healthcare.”
I would argue that many more folks are suffering from poor health due to over-consumption (aka mal-nourishment). That over-consumption is subsidized by our government policies: food stamps, price supports for corn, subsidizing medical premiums with no incentives to take responsibility for one’s own health. Imagine if medicaid/medicare premiums were tied to weight, smoking, high blood pressure – just like in a true functioning insurance market.