#Albany lawmakers pass bills aimed at cleaning up housing bias

#Albany lawmakers pass bills aimed at cleaning up housing bias

“#Albany lawmakers pass bills aimed at cleaning up housing bias” ALBANY — State Senate Democrats passed a package of bills Monday designed to clean up discriminatory and predatory practices in the housing market.  The 11 bills includes a measure that would require the state attorney general’s office to conduct a yearly investigation into how minorities…

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#Woman’s Gorilla Glue hair horror gets stickier

#Woman’s Gorilla Glue hair horror gets stickier

“#Woman’s Gorilla Glue hair horror gets stickier” A Louisiana woman who went viral after struggling to remove Gorilla Glue from her hair claims that the hospital nor the company’s advice helped remove the hardened adhesive. Now she’s considering a lawsuit to get out of the sticky situation, according to TMZ. Tessica Brown hired an attorney…

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#One murder horrified a country

#One murder horrified a country

“#One murder horrified a country” Keeley Hawes says her expectations “weren’t particularly high” regarding viewer interest in her two-part TV movie “Honour,” which premiered last fall on ITV in the UK. “It wasn’t a mainstream subject and not something many people knew about,” Hawes, 44, says of “Honour,” which chronicles the 2006 murder of a…

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#New warden at Epstein jail served as federal executioner

#New warden at Epstein jail served as federal executioner

“#New warden at Epstein jail served as federal executioner” The interim warden at the troubled Manhattan lockup where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself served as the executioner at five executions carried out by the Bureau of Prisons in recent months, a report said Monday. Warden Eric Williams participated in the five executions when the federal agency…

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#Putting ‘heroes’ out of work with a mandatory wage hike

#Putting ‘heroes’ out of work with a mandatory wage hike

“#Putting ‘heroes’ out of work with a mandatory wage hike” A case out of California shows the perils of politicians’ ordering raises for private-sector workers — and thereby killing their jobs. The City Council of Long Beach recently passed a law ordering grocery-store companies with over 300 employees nationwide to pay local workers an extra…

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#Letters to the Editor — Feb. 9, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — Feb. 9, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — Feb. 9, 2021” The Issue: The Biden administration’s loosening of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. President Biden seems intent on changing his legacy from “winner of the most questionable presidential election” to “worst president ever,” all in only a few weeks (“Undoing Trump immig policy,” Feb. 3). A lot of…

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