Dorothy Lyons News Today

Juno Temple leads an excellent cast in a dark, but raucous, two-episode opener

Jamaica: Re “The real holiday” (editorial, May 21): You state that Brooklyn-Queens Day is a “nonsense holiday that nobody understands or cares about.” We are writing to let you know that there are those of us who care deeply about this holiday and what it celebrates.

Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.: On Dec. 30, Gov. Hochul cut 14% of mental health practitioners from a bill that requires all insurance companies to cover therapy. This will drastically impact New Yorkers’ access to affordable mental health care from qualified providers at a time when waitlists are already very long and many are struggling to afford therapy for themselves and their children.

Manhattan: Last week, NYC Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina told City Council members that “if nothing changes,” the NYC jail population could increase to more than 7,000 people by 2024. This would surely mean more tragic deaths in DOC custody and worse conditions for officers, who can’t seem to safely manage the number of people in jail already. Those outcomes are unacceptable, and Mayor Adams needs to act now to change course.

40 years after George Banks killed 13 people in Wilkes-Barre in what was then Pa.'s worst mass murder, he remains in prison despite being sentenced to die.

Tab passed away at his home on the morning of February 10, 2022 in Red Rock, Ontario. He was born to Bruce and Donna Lyons on December 18, 1965 in London Ontario.

Middletown, N.J.: I am that virus that everyone dreads. I cannot survive without your help. I flourish in your body and you never know when I will infect you. You cannot see me, smell me or know when I am lingering near you, ready to enter your body.