Queens South Asian community groups keep redistricting fight going

Queens South Asian community groups keep redistricting fight going

The APA Voice Redistricting Task Force filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the New York Independent Redistricting Commission in order to figure out why a draft version of their district that received widespread community support was scrapped at the final moments of a tumultuous redistricting process. 

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Local pol’s Israel bill creates controversy in Queens

Local pol’s Israel bill creates controversy in Queens

Astoria Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani recently introduced "Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act,” a bill that would stop tax-exempt registered nonprofits in New York from helping to fund the State of Israel’s settlement activities in the West Bank, which have been deemed illegal by the United Nations. That legislation is now garnering condemnation from dozens of his legislative colleagues who have called it antisemetic. 

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Jail oversight board bungles monthly meeting – again

Jail oversight board bungles monthly meeting – again

The Board of Correction’s monthly meeting fell into chaos after technical difficulties left the board’s livestream sputtering, and after the board’s chair clashed with a criminal justice reform advocate and his fellow board members agitated by the board’s inability to hold its scheduled public hearing.

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‘Their loss is not forgotten’: Officials pitch bill to fund futures for kids who lost parents to COVID

‘Their loss is not forgotten’: Officials pitch bill to fund futures for kids who lost parents to COVID

As the federal government’s emergency COVID-19 declaration came to end on Thursday, a group of families, doctors and lawmakers gathered in the Queens neighborhood that was once the epicenter of the pandemic and called on New Yorkers not to forget them, or the loved ones they lost.

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Queens doctors strike averted following midnight deal

Queens doctors strike averted following midnight deal

Resident doctors at Flushing and Jamaica Hospitals reached an eleventh hour deal with the hospital system, MediSys, late Sunday night, narrowly avoiding a strike that would have begun just seven hours later. 

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Federal Queens pols urge Biden to expedite migrant work authorization

Federal Queens pols urge Biden to expedite migrant work authorization

With fears that the asylum seeker crisis in New York City may worsen with the ending of Title 42, a majority of the city’s congressional representatives signed a joint letter addressed to President Joe Biden looking for his help in allowing the migrants to work. 

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Locals get first look at Willets Point soccer stadium

Locals get first look at Willets Point soccer stadium

Developers and city officials unveiled new plans for phase two of the massive Willets Point redevelopment project on Wednesday, including renderings of the first-if-its-kind soccer stadium that will soon be home to the New York City Football Club. 

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Queens pols tout abortion protections in state budget

Queens pols tout abortion protections in state budget

Queens officials and advocates rallied in Long Island City on Thursday, celebrating the inclusion of abortion access protections in the final state budget. HMH Part U, a proposal from Queens State Senator Kristen Gonzalez and Queens Assemblymember Nily Rozic was included in the state budget and contains provisions for protecting abortion access in New York following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. 

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