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Is there something in the water over at Air Canada’s headquarters? Can you help me understand ...

Email The path to winning appointment to Long Island’s highly paid police forces has been more than three times tougher for Black would-be officers than for white applicants and twice as tough for Hispanic job seekers in recruitment by the Nassau and Suffolk County departments, a Newsday investigation has found. With thousands more people seeking jobs than the number needed by the two forces, the investigation revealed that since 2012, each county’s hiring process rejected minorities at ra...

Bottom line Alex Gangitano American Fair Credit Council, an association of debt settlement companies, hired Allon Advocacy LLC to work on issues related to consumer unsecured debt settlement, debt relief and debt consolidation. Steven Boms, former legislative director to ex-Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), will work on the account. The RLJ Companies LLC, a holding company for investments in media, entertainment, automotive and financial industries, hired Arent Fox LLP to work on ...

Former Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) has joined a Washington-based firm, he and the company announced this week. Jones ...

Reps. Grace Meng and Ted Lieu Join Anti-Semitism Task Force Leadership WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two Taiwanese-American members of Congress have joined the leadership of its anti-Semitism task force. Reps. Grace Meng of New York and Ted Lieu of California, both Democrats, were listed among eight-co-chairs of the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism in a release Monday, the first for the new Congress. The task force has over 100 members from the U.S. House of Representatives. The newcomer...

Taiwanese-American representatives, whose districts have large Jewish populations, replacing Jewish Congress members Nita Lowey, Eliot Engel

Recent tragic and scary events in America have raised awareness of anti-Asian racism in our society. The history of anti-Asian discrimination, exclusion and exploitation is easily found through a Google search. I have found, however, that we learn and understand complex issues better when we…

Mar 17, 2021 New York City dealers face various challenges, including the high cost of doing business in a place where real estate prices are sky-high. Auto Dealers Fight the Fight – and Stay Sane Car dealers “found themselves in a world they never expected to be in,” Mark Schienberg, head of the Greater New York Auto Dealers Assn., says in a Wards Q&A. As a working kid growing up in New York City, Mark Schienberg stood out.  He was a paper carrier but diffe...

Wednesday marks a new chapter for one St. Paul hospital. St. Joseph's in downtown is starting its transition away from emergency care to COVID-19 care and long-term acute care ...

Taiwanese immigrants. ming launched her own bid for the state assembly in 2009 and served two years retiring gary ackerman. focusing on tax reform and public safety during her campaign, she easily won in the heavily democratic district. nice to meet you. >> good morning, chuck. thanks for having me. >> i want to start with sequester. cut through this a little bit. whats hype? whats real? what do you expect and what have you told your constituents? >> i think its a very serious issue. i think the...