NY may change how villages are formed. Would that derail Hasidic village plans?
Two pending bills on Hochul's desk would change the rules for forming new villages and could raise obstacles for plans by two Hasidic communities.
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Two pending bills on Hochul's desk would change the rules for forming new villages and could raise obstacles for plans by two Hasidic communities.
SIR – The concept of GPs having their own patients (Leading Article, November 30) – as envisaged by Nye Bevan – was destroyed in 2004, when NHS contracts were shifted from individual doctors to practices. Before that, a named doctor had cradle-to-grave responsibility for named patients. The doctor was the general practitioner; now it is a general practice that handles those who manage to get through the door. Often the care itself is carried out by locums. The dissatisfaction, among both patient
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Gov. Kathy Hochul's reboot of her plan to combat a housing affordability crisis is being met with some support across the state, but skepticism remains on Long Island.
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