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The Vallejo High wrestling team competed at the 15th Annual Bill Martell Wrestling Invitational in Walnut Creek’s Northgate High School this weekend and Karmine Berndt took first place in the 138-pound weight class. Berndt’s first-place finish came in a tournament featuring more than 40 teams and 320 total wrestlers. Berndt went 5-0 to take home […]
Efforts to revitalize downtowns by repopulating workplaces are meeting a wall of union resistance.
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Years ago, before he was mayor, Bill de Blasio laid out the essence of any effort to reform the country’s largest police department. New York City needed true civilian oversight. Describing the city agency tasked with investigating police misconduct as “more of a lapdog than a watchdog,” he proposed in 2009 to give it more independence, authority, and guaranteed funding. A few months later, he again pledged change, saying in a statement, “the NYP...
‘The virus sets the timeline’: Health experts concerned over plan to reopen New York City By Ari Ephraim Feldman New York City PUBLISHED 7:00 PM ET May. 03, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:00 PM EDT May. 03, 2021 SHARE New York City is seeing the best COVID-19 numbers in nearly six months, with rates of hospitalizations, positive tests and cases all at their lowest levels since November. Those trends have led Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo...
Health Minibuses Roll Out To Vaccinate Homeless New Yorkers arrow The Health + Hospitals system's new vaccine minibus in Midtown on April 27th, 2021. Gothamist/Sydney Pereira The city’s Health and Hospitals system deployed three minibuses on Tuesday to deliver COVID-19 vaccines and other health care to New Yorkers dealing with street homelessness. Medical personnel set up in Midtown, the Upper West Side, and Washington Heights, where they’ll administer Johnson & Johnson shots. City and state officials said Saturday they’d resume the one-dose option after federal ...