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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 if rent is not canceled for all tenants. Heastie has downplayed the housing crisis. The action was ...

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 mind visitors enjoying the flowers, it was an issue when people entered the field, and took or knock...

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 community that has sprung up here—not on the outskirts of this trendy Eastside neighborhood, but righ...