NEW YORK Everybody’s ganging up on Andrew Yang.
The New York City mayor’s race has grown more vicious in recent weeks and the favorite target is Yang, who has come under attack for everything from his basic income and tax plans to his employment history and his second home upstate.
The aggressive hits on Yang reflect his status as front runner in recent polls, as the more established politicians who are now trailing him in the Democratic primary race scramble to take him down a notch and make an impression with the roughly half of voters who remain undecided.
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Proton therapy has been around for many years, but getting patients and payers to accept it has been challenging, said Jon Weinbach, CEO of the New York Proton Center, the city s and state s first such treatment center.
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Bloomberg alumni are back in action and turning on their own
Bloomberg’s former aides are now back in the mix, shaping the race to choose de Blasio’s successor.
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Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg had a knack for attracting top-tier staff and commanding loyalty in the City Hall he ran for more than a decade as well as the campaigns he waged to get there.
But as those staffers take up positions in opposing camps for this year’s Democratic mayoral primary, the Bloomberg alumni are lobbing grenades at each other, on the trail and online, as the candidates grow more restive by the day referring to their former trenchmates as tone-deaf, disingenuous and one candidate’s supporters as a “clown car.”