by Kelli Ballard | May 19, 2020 | Articles, Healthcare, Politics, Social Issues
Oh, Bill de Blasio, can you hear the chords of your career swansong striking in the near distance? Have you exercised so much temporary authority over your constituents that your head has swelled with the power? Or has the pressure of dealing with the Coronavirus...
by Sarah Cowgill | May 12, 2020 | Articles, Healthcare, Politics, Race, Social Issues
Mayor Bill de Blasio is doubling his task force of badged hall monitors roaming New York City neighborhoods to ferret out hardened criminals who are not social distancing. This is in response to blowback he instigated by creating official snitches who tended to look...
by Sarah Cowgill | Apr 14, 2020 | Articles, Healthcare, Politics, Social Issues
Citizens of New York have been spun like a top in a whirlwind the past few months, trying to keep up with politics and procedures during the seemingly eternal time of big bad bug COVID-19. They’ve been told to visit Asian-American small businesses – especially...
by Sarah Cowgill | Apr 5, 2020 | Articles, Crime & Punishment, Social Issues
The invisible but virulent Coronavirus bug plaguing New York City and hampering normalcy across the country is tamping down criminal activity in the Big Apple like no politician has been able to do in nearly a century. Reports of serious felonies, murders, and arrests...
by Sarah Cowgill | Apr 2, 2020 | Articles, Crime & Punishment, Healthcare, Politics, Social Issues
In the rush to save his city from COVID-19, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is freeing violent criminals. The release of inmates convicted of domestic violence and sex crimes has the district attorneys from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, as well...