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258 2 minutes read Liberation photo. Around 250 tenants and advocates gathered in the northeast Bronx on March 11 to continue the fight to cancel rent in New York City. The Bronx is home to one of the highest populations of working-class renters in the city, in addition to being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.  Organizers rallied then marched to the office of New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, demanding action from legislators to prevent an eviction wave that will come...

Pierre Krähenbühl, ex-head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, talks about why he soon expects closure on the 2019 misconduct scandal.

Friends of Sears Island and the Carver Memorial Library will co-sponsor a live Zoom presentation titled “Learning to Read Tracks, and Using Them to Enter the Secret Lives of Wild Animals” by Sandra Mitchell on Tuesday, March 2, at 6:30 p.m. Did you...

Mellow yellow: Sunflowers in bloom near Oamaru 27 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 2 minutes to read Ruby Oskam from Dunedin takes the opportunity for a snap among the sunflowers. Photo / Stephen Jaquiery, Otago Daily Times Otago Daily Times The sunflowers near Weston are in full bloom, and are attracting more than just birds. Owners Peter and Sandra Mitchell said the flowers generated a lot of interest from the public and it was not uncommon for people to stop and take pictures. Although the couple did not ...

It’s nine o’clock on a blazingly sunny October morning in Echo Park. A scruffy but fashionable group slowly gathers for breakfast around a table piled high with bagels. Not far away, two men put on boxing gloves and playfully begin to spar. Another is restringing a flamenco guitar on an old, cast-off sofa sitting on a grassy embankment. Any minute now, the socialists will arrive with their solar strips to charge everyone’s phones. It’s another day in the life of an unlikely homeless com...

“We have to shine a light now. We can’t wait any longer.” Beautification effort brings hope to murder-stricken stretch of Avondale By Morgan Parrish | December 11, 2020 at 4:41 PM EST - Updated December 11 at 5:16 PM CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Volunteers put up Christmas lights, wreaths and decorations along a troublesome part of Avondale Friday. The community-led effort resulted after two recent homicides at the corner of Burnet and Forest Avenues. Now a nearby fence is decked a...

Hi spirits: Brisbanes Greeters return after enforced COVID-19 break We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Hi spirits: Brisbanes Greeters return after enforced COVID-19 break Normal text size They all love to tell a story, thats for sure. That is what has made about 150 volunteers join the smiling bunch of tour guides who introduce the city to people who arrive in town on holidays. On Friday they are back at work, all in matching new blue shirts an...

>> c-span is live outside the exhibition complex. the second of three presidential debates will get under way, beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern. this is a town hall style debate. it will be moderated by candy crowley. it is a town hall style or they take questions from the audience. it is 80 uncommitted voters tonight. all of that coming up this evening. here is how our schedule looks like coming up this evening. we invite you to watch and engage with us beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern wi...

for prisoners to earn four times more time off for good behavior under the new plan than they had under the old one. are we gonna see prisoners released earlier? >> interview: in some cases, there may be. >> reporter: on the other hand, the current system isnt really working all that well either. >> interview: if you look at san francisco, for instance, 77% of the people that we send to prison rio fend. so obviously there are things we can do much better. >> reporter: as is often the c...

pavement there, making it very slippery. but did you know this? the chp says the slickest roads tends to be the freeway clover leaves, those connector ramps between freeways. the irs says not so fast, telling a big medical marijuana business that it owes millions in back taxes. robert liles on the letter that could change everything for budding bay area industry. >> reporter: oakland as harbor side health center is celebrating its five-year anniversary tonight but nothing in these ca...