Brooklyn Methodist has an excellent and compassionate detox unit. I don't know how effective Samaritan Daytop is but they have a long history and developed post-treatment resources.

We did while Alcee Hastings was in office. There's no prohibition on felons serving in Congress, and rules like Florida has that prevent felons from holding federal office are certainly unconstitutional. It's just that few felons run for public office at all, let alone federal, and of course their status doesn't help in the election.

The best case scenario I've heard in terms of being hired by the city is two months of bullshit, minimum. After that, you have to deal with low pay, terrible working conditions, constant bureaucratic bullshit over your pay and reimbursements, and then this shit.

Remind me again why literally anyone with options should work for New York City?

I find that opinion fascinating, because I remember the old recipe being quite bad, and only eating it out of politeness when a friend ordered it. Meanwhile I occasionally have cravings for the new stuff - an itch I can't scratch with actual, proper pizza made with care, mind. And I don't think it's just hazy childhood memories, because I remember Papa John's being similarly straight up repulsive at the same age, and it's exactly as bad today as it was then.

You know, between her and Carl "Horse Sex Is Best Sex" Paladino, I'm thinking that maybe all the sane Paladinos are giving the NY Republican party a wide berth.

Yeah, this is "Cuba and Venezuela are collapsing and there's a mass wave of human suffering moving through the Americas," not the "illegals" boogeyman. Most of that happens with visa overstays - a phenomenon which NYC has always been an epicenter of - and not border hoppers.

Like, people think the Cuban refugee crisis was bad when Elian Gonzalez was on everyone's mind - this year is by far the worst emigration crisis since the Cuban Revolution.

Yeah, they revealed their short positions as part of their data release, which is exactly what they should do. This is literally one of the reasons short sellers exist and why regulators are fine with reports like this - they profit off of research showing companies are overvalued, just as stock promoters profit off of releasing research showing positive trends for a company. The market will be healthier now that it's aware of Adani Group's fraud as a risk for future performance. It's not market manipulation in regulators' eyes and never will be.

Shockingly, when you make it so that only the most desperate will take a job with the city, and actively make the hiring process as difficult and painful as possible with zero guarantee that you'll actually be hired at the end of the process, staff vacancies pile up. And vacancies that pile up lead to reduced services, greater costs, and human misery.

She shouldn't need to - it's Castillo's fault he was a particularly stupid kind of authoritarian and tried to pull off a coup, not hers. But if that's what's needed to end the violence...

We put a huge amount of effort into teaching people that disengaging is exactly what you should do when there's no other reasonable solution. KRJ, and KRJ alone, rejected every compromise and negotiated settlement. The developer isn't being unreasonable at all - they want to make productive use of the land, and since no housing solution is acceptable to the city (because of member deference), they're opening a business that the city zoned the property for. They're not even "going home" - they're making productive use of the space, just not the productive use that they and almost everyone except KRJ hoped for.

In much the same way, when a wound is bleeding out, you don't put a bandage on it. After all, you've done just fine so far without a bandage - clearly you don't need it.

Yeah, the doomposting in this thread is ridiculous. This is good news for everyone and a sign that after the stock market and capital correction is over, we might well end up with a more robust economy that's better for workers.

What exactly do you think a jail does? Building a jail more closely integrated with the community will make it much easier to visit family, meet with lawyers, connect with post-incarceration resources, and otherwise do the things that reduce recidivism and improve long-term outcomes. Rikers was a mistake from the very beginning.

This is just about the saddest example of right-wing mouthbreather cope I've seen related to this guy, and that's saying something.

Let's be honest - does the mayor have any friends that aren't just terrible, loathsome people?

This is still concerning, because it looks like the new recombinant XBB strain evades humoral immunity from earlier Omicron strains. I got it within a month of getting over an earlier COVID infection, despite being up to date on my boosters. With vaccination rates low in China, and with the spectre of XBB rising, I'm concerned that China will experience back-to-back waves of infections, with the second wave coming as soon as the end of January, if the current wave continues to be powered by earlier-emerging Omicron variants.

>or find more positive forms of stimulus

Then the government should send people a check or find more positive forms of stimulus, not further distort an already distorted market. Gasoline powered cars impose enormous negative externalities on the market, not least in the infrastructure required to support them. The gasoline tax recaptures a portion of the cost of those externalities and funds the infrastructure needed to support automobile travel.

The last thing we need to do is further incentivize driving.

Lots of workplace tension.

I wish she'd be fired or reassigned, but unfortunately both DeBlasio and Adams have completely gutted the city's planning infrastructure, leaving only incompetent blowhards with no other job prospects, like this lady, willing to do the job. Jumaane Williams deserves heat for nominating her, too.

Zimmerman's campaign put out the word, it's just that nobody paid attention.

Headline should read "Mayor to Retired City Workers: Drop Dead!" Can't imagine why we're having a massive recruitment problem in city government when this is how you can expect to be treated after you've put in your time.

Because when other countries own property in the United States, it gives us leverage over them and encourages them to feel generally positive about our welfare. It's related to why Alexander Hamilton wanted the new federal government to assume state debts and issue US bonds to anyone who would buy them. People with whom you have ongoing economic ties, especially involving property, will tend to support your welfare so as to avoid endangering their investment. There are downsides to that arrangement, but it's a powerful tool in maintaining the United States' preeminence in international affairs and encouraging other nations not to put our peace and stability in too much danger.

Because they're part of the governing coalition.