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On April 8, the University of Connecticut general housing selection process began with thousands of students hoping to get the best on-campus housing possible.  

Stop and frisk hasn’t disappeared Bill de Blasio’s vocal criticism of the NYPD’s use of stop and frisk under then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg helped vault him to victory in 2013. In a city of a million issues, it became  the issue. Now Maya Wiley – de Blasio’s former counsel, who has many of his allies on her team – is hoping to make it an issue again, twice targeting Eric Adams for defending the tactic in the first official Democratic primary mayoral debate Thursday night. Adams,...

Women Candidates to Council: Dont Delay Ranked Choice Voting, Start Education Today Related Media RCV_12_14_.pdf NEW YORK, NY (12/14/2020) (readMedia)-- Today, 23 women candidates for New York City Council wrote an open letter in support of Ranked Choice Voting, arguing that it will help elect more women -- women of color in particular -- by eliminating the spoiler effect and decreasing negative attacks. "Rather than seeking to delay ranked choice voting, we need the...