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Readers discuss an investigation into the lack of secular education at New York’s yeshivas. Also: Outdoor dining; climate-crisis deniers.

Biden has proposed a rule to create a plan that would cap income-driven payments at 5% of income. Read more at Boston.com.

For an article on wastewater disease surveillance, Times journalists descended underground to look inside a New York City sewage pipe.

Here’s how a scrappy team of scientists, public health experts and plumbers is embracing wastewater surveillance as the future of disease tracking.

The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square donated $100,000 to the Actors Fund during a luncheon at Feinstein’s/54 Below, an intimate-but-formal Broadway basement supper club in New York City.

In the 1970s there flourished a phenomenon known as the Movie of the Week. These television productions were often issue-oriented dramas about individuals learning to overcome obstacles: disabilities, diseases, drugs, pollution, killer semis, teen waywardness, nuclear annihilation, being "different." Sometimes they won Emmys. Mostly they mediocre, generally described as "well-intentioned" and even, occasionally, "daring" in their subject matter.

Credit...Spectrum News NY1 & the NYC Campaign Finance Board The debate was spirited, at times fast-paced and occasionally awkward, with the eight candidates for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York engaging with one another in a virtual format that left little room for the usual onstage theatrics. Here are five takeaways: Image Credit...Dakota Santiago for The New York Times The topics of crime and police reform came up early, and quickly became the clearest line dividing the candid...

Credit...Spectrum News NY1 & the NYC Campaign Finance Board The debate was spirited, at times fast-paced and occasionally awkward, with the eight candidates for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York engaging with one another in a virtual format that left little room for the usual onstage theatrics. Here are five takeaways: Image Credit...Dakota Santiago for The New York Times The topics of crime and police reform came up early, and quickly became the clearest line dividing the candid...

On Wednesday, the City Council takes up a bill that would remove central role of the NYPD in crash investigations and give that responsibility to the Department of Transportation, a bill that supporters say will increase the likelihood that crash analyses will lead to safer road designs. In addition, victims of crashes have long complained that the NYPD does a poor and insensitive job of investigating road violence. We asked a victim for her thoughts. Bernadette Karna. Photo: Jonah Markowitz On...

New York|What We Found in Robert Caro’s Yellowed Files https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/nyregion/robert-caro-archives.html Transcripts of interviews with “RM,” Robert Moses, whose public works projects transformed much of New York.Credit...Jonah Markowitz for The New York Times Sections What We Found in Robert Caro’s Yellowed Files The author of “The Power Broker” and a multivolume biography of L.B.J. is giving awed archivists — and New York — access to...