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NYC Bans Polystyrene Takeout Containers and Coffee Cups
Feb 19, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 80 80 recommendations | email to a friend
Judge Upholds the 2013 Law Banning Polystyrene for Takeout Containers and Coffee Cups In 2019 restaurants must begin phasing polystyrene cups and containers out of use. This change is a result of a...
Has Your Loved One Been the Victim of Nursing Home Neglect?
Feb 15, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 160 160 recommendations | email to a friend
How Does Neglect Differ from Abuse? Finding out whether your parent, relative or friend has been the victim of nursing home neglect is vital for their wellbeing. Sadly, many elderly people are in s...
Matter of Van Patten—Undue Influence
Feb 15, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 159 159 recommendations | email to a friend
Probate Administration | Wrongful Actions There are certain basic legal requirements when a person transfers property, conveys a power of attorney or establishes a plan for the distribution of an e...
Legal Concerns for New York Restaurant Owners
Feb 14, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 168 168 recommendations | email to a friend
If you’re opening a new restaurant in New York City or the surrounding area, there are certain legal requirements you must put in place. You will need to choose a business entity and get your licen...
Certain questions are taboo for employers to ask in a job interview. The most obvious ones are questions that could be regarded as discrimination. If you ask these types of questions, you could be held liable if a discrimination lawsuit is brought against you. Do not ask questions that intimate at anything to do with age, race, color, national origin or birthplace, religion, disability, genetic information, gender/sex or marital/family status/pregnancy. (EEOC)
Feb 14, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 180 180 recommendations | email to a friend
2019 Is Here with New Salary Thresholds The New York State overtime salary threshold draws the line between exempt salaried workers, who must be paid for overtime, and those non-exempt workers, who...
MASPETH,NY-BUYING A BRICK 2F. VS A FRAME 2F.
Feb 05, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 354 354 recommendations | email to a friend
COLLECTION OF OPINIONS BY BROKERS IN THE AREA. BUYER BEWARE! BIG DIFFERENCE WHEN BUYING AN OLD FRAME 2F. HOME, MAYBE 100 YEARS OLD BY NOW, AND OR BUYING A YOUNG BRICK 2 FAMILY HOUSE, ESPECIALLY IF ...
Trump supporters still in denial-Why?
Jan 25, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 645 645 recommendations | email to a friend
How many Americans   are Pro Trump today, January 25, 2019?   It is hard to imagine, whether those who are still supportive of Trump knowing all the evidence put out so far, like how many staffers ...
Leo Vadalà’s “Some Grief, Some Joy” Will Move The Reader...
Jan 19, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 590 590 recommendations | email to a friend
Review by Tiziano Thomas Dossena Historical fiction  is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past. The term is commonly used as a synonym for the  historical n...
How Important Is ADA Compliance for Your Website?
Jan 15, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 760 760 recommendations | email to a friend
ADA Non-Compliance and The Beyonce Website Lawsuit According to the   Hollywood Reporter , the lawsuit alleges that visually impaired users do not have equal access to the website’s products and se...
The Ever Changing World of Web Design & Websites
Jan 15, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 503 503 recommendations | email to a friend
A Brief Look Back and Look Forward at Websites It's a fact that the world of web design and websites is ever changing. New improvements in design and technology emerge all the time. Can you imagine...

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Chalk it up to a bad decision
We think even the most inside of political insiders was caught off guard when former councilman and city comptroller John Liu announced that he would be running against State Senator Tony Avella fo...
Aug 21, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 386 386 recommendations | email to a friend
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De Blasio's money is no good here
When was the last time you heard of a politician turning down money? Elected officials will take all sorts of risks when it comes to raising money for their campaigns. Take the issue of straw donor...
Aug 15, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 355 355 recommendations | email to a friend
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Going for broke? New ad attacks Williams
It looks like Governor Andrew Cuomo and Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul will have something else to go after Councilman Jumaane Williams for in his bid to take Hochul's job. Williams is running fo...
Aug 08, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 389 389 recommendations | email to a friend
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Yonel Letellier Sosa with supporters.
Special circumstances
An Assembly candidate in Queens won't let go of the special election earlier this year that sent his opponent to the state Assembly. Yonel Letellier Sosa, who is running against Assemblywoman Ari E...
Aug 08, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 352 352 recommendations | email to a friend
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Better late than never, but for whom?
Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer took to Twitter last week to forcefully correct his lukewarm position either for or against bike lanes on Skillman and 43rd avenues in his district. Community board 2 vo...
Jul 31, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 336 336 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cuomo campaign scrambling to prove support
Governor Andrew Cuomo is working awfully hard to prove that people like him, they really, really like him. First, there was the whole small donor debacle. Ever since announcing her challenge to Cuo...
Jul 24, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 328 328 recommendations | email to a friend
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Forget Cuomo's best buds with some choice buds
Concerned that state government is a corrupt cesspool full of people looking to get fat on the public's dime? Relax and take a hit of this, brah! There was more bad news for the administration of G...
Jul 18, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 362 362 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dominos keep falling after Crowley’s loss
New York City’s political class is still dealing with the aftershock of Joe Crowley’s stunning loss to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the congressional primary. The defeat has resulted in a flood of e...
Jul 11, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 350 350 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ocasio-Cortez takes down the machine
A first-time candidate made national headlines last week when she unseated longtime incumbent Congressman Joseph Crowley in the Democratic Primary. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory even made its ...
Jul 02, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 341 341 recommendations | email to a friend
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School safety out, but we get a CuomoTrain!
It seemed impossible, but lawmakers in Albany lowered the bar even further when it comes to partisan inaction, failing to get anything of consequence accomplished before the gavel fell on the end o...
Jun 26, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 359 359 recommendations | email to a friend
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Molinaro: Cuomo throwing Cadillac taxpayer money
His love is bigger than a Cadillac, but one of his opponents wants the company to drive it right back. Republican gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro sent a letter to Stephen Carlisle, president ...
Jun 19, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 378 378 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dillon jumps from 14th to the 7th
You might remember us chronicling the campaign of James Dillon, the candidate whose signs – partially in Spanish, nonetheless – we started seeing along Queens Boulevard last year, but knew little e...
Jun 06, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 385 385 recommendations | email to a friend
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Boos and a Bronx cheer for a couple of mayors
It was rough couple of days last week for Mayor Bill de Blasio. A judge ruled that his office had to make public emails between the mayor and his staff because the inclusion of an outside consultan...
May 30, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 380 380 recommendations | email to a friend
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Queens assemblywomen (from left) Stacey Pheffer Amato, Alicia Hyndman, Vivian Cook, and Nily Rozic welcome Ari Espinal (center) to Albany.
New assemblywoman has to hit campaign trail
Ari Espinal doesn't have long to enjoy her recent election to the Assembly. Espinal was the lone person on the ballot in a special election to replace Francisco Moya, who represented the neighborho...
May 23, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 420 420 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pols fleeing from AG selection process
The taint surrounding the state legislature in Albany is so great that people would rather turn down a high-profile post like attorney general rather that be seen as in bed with New York's assembly...
May 15, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 389 389 recommendations | email to a friend
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