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NY has welcomed refugees for decades. Trump's travel ban is wrong

NY has welcomed refugees for decades. Trump's travel ban is wrong

Nine years ago, I launched a community-based, volunteer-driven refugee resettlement movement in New York’s Lower Hudson Valley. Since then,...

27.06.2025 3

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Kathie Ocallaghan 

NY troopers face mental health risks. Gov. Kathy Hochul can help them

NY troopers face mental health risks. Gov. Kathy Hochul can help them

New York lawmakers took bold, historic, and long-overdue action earlier this month when they passed a nation-leading bill that would establish a...

27.06.2025 4

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Glenn Liebman And Nathan Mclaughlin 

Trump's potential tariffs on medicines will hurt New Yorkers

Trump's potential tariffs on medicines will hurt New Yorkers

New Yorkers already face the highest health care costs of any state in the nation. And prices could soon soar even higher — if the White House...

26.06.2025 3

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Duane Whitmer 

New York will not grow without natural gas

New York will not grow without natural gas

Much has changed during my decades of work in the energy industry, but one thing remains constant: The need for reliability. Reliability is as...

24.06.2025 1

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Robert Catell 

Israel’s mental health crisis is a national security threat

Israel’s mental health crisis is a national security threat

While missiles fall across Israel and the world focuses on the physical devastation, a quieter but equally urgent crisis is unfolding behind closed...

24.06.2025 2

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Gila Tolub 

'Jaws' frightened us. But what we're doing to oceans is even scarier.

'Jaws' frightened us. But what we're doing to oceans is even scarier.

When my late husband, Peter Benchley, and I celebrated our 40th anniversary, I had one wish: to go cage diving with great white sharks. After...

20.06.2025 3

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Wendy Benchley