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Kat Murti: How To End the Drug War for Good
Today's guest is Kat Murti, the new executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), the country's oldest and most influential student group challenging the war on drugs. Before taking the helm at SSDP, Kat was a longtime staffer at the libertarian Cato Institute, a founder of Feminists for Liberty, and an SSDP chapter head at the University of California, Berkeley, where she attended undergrad. Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with Murti about the role that young people in particular can play in ending prohibition, why marijuana has yet to be legalized at the federal level, and whether Donald Trump and Republicans or Joe Biden and Democrats are actually worse when it comes to drug policy reform.
ICE Moves To Seize Accused Molester In Hackensack Family Sleepover
Diego G. Buri-Mora, 35, was seized on Tuesday, May 14 by Hackensack police, who notified members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit. The incident “was reported to have occurred while the juvenile was visiting family members,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. A joint...
Some Hudson Valley ER wait times spiked 20% last year. Is your local hospital on our list?
As lawmakers and hospitals battled over state health care funding, some patients in the Hudson Valley area faced some of the longest emergency room wait times in New York, federal data show. While state budget debates prioritized closing Medicaid funding gaps to shore up safety-net hospitals, wait times at most...
Bronx rapper Ashley Bautista ‘traumatized’ after fighting off fan at bowling alley: ‘I don’t feel comfortable walking anywhere’
A Bronx rapper claims she’s been left “traumatized” after punching a fan in purported self-defense after the woman confronted her and her entourage at a Manhattan bowling alley last month. Ashley Bautista, also known by her stage name, Young Ash, was arrested around 1:10 a.m. April 26 at The Gutter on the Lower East Side after she says the female fan wrapped her arm around her and recorded her before going after her friends. “To keep a long story short, a fan ended up disrespecting me in person at a bowling alley,” Bautista told The Post outside a Manhattan courthouse Tuesday....
It’s time to stop cheating Manhattan students by giving other kids priority
Schools Chancellor David Banks announced a big win for families last month: Nine new schools in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx will open next fall. These new schools offer the promise of what every NYC public-school parent dreams of: high-quality curricula, dynamic instruction, enrichment, college readiness and accessibility to families in their own communities. As a parent of a rising sixth-grader with the grueling high-school application process ahead, I was thrilled about these new opportunities . . . until I read the implied fine print: Manhattan students need not apply. Like countless other high schools, these will be out of reach because of...
NYC July 4 fireworks move back to the Hudson for first time in a decade — but some on the East River side aren’t sad to see them go
It’s a blast from the past. The city’s July 4 fireworks are moving back to the Hudson River for the first time in a decade – and the change has sparks flying on both sides of Manhattan. The Macy’s Fourth of July show was moved to the East River nearly 10 years ago with officials saying more New Yorkers could see them, but as that chapter in the turf war comes to a close not everyone on Team East is sad to see the fireworks go. “Selfishly, as a resident, it’s kind of nice to not have the fireworks this year,” said 34-year-old...
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