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Brooklyn: The 47th Council District is one of the most diverse in the city, consisting of varied ethnic groups with a wide range on the socio-economic scale. They have had representation by the same community board and elected officials, sharing many common interests and areas of cooperation. ....
Brooklyn: There was a public hearing held with the NYC Board of Correction on Sept. 13 to address the current state of Rikers Island and the borough jails. However, the actual Department of Correction and officers left the hearing before those of us who have been impacted by their abuses and negligence could testify. So I am saying my piece to them now. ....
Opelika, Ala.: Re “The Tuskegee syphilis study’s shame echoes today” (op-ed, July 25): The Tuskegee abomination wasn’t a study. To dignify it thusly is injurious, inaccurate and insulting. Educated professionals engaged in criminal behavior. They lied, they withheld available penicillin and they salved their corrupt consciences by providing uneducated and impoverished men free hot lunches, free transportation to and from the hospital and free burials. ....
Brooklyn: As a middle-income worker with no corporate card, no expense account, and a neither-wheeling-nor-dealing job that will never woo “business travelers” to the city, I am tired of being told it is my civic duty to return to Manhattan to put my money into the NYC economy (“Get back,” editorial, Feb. 15). ....