#Letters to the Editor — July 27, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — July 27, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — July 27, 2021” The Issue: The DOJ’s decision not to pursue a civil-rights probe into Gov. Cuomo’s nursing-home order. The decision to drop a probe into the nursing-home deaths that occurred under Gov. Cuo­mo’s direction is another example of the two-tiered judicial system in this country that is tearing our…

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#King of the politically incorrect comics

#King of the politically incorrect comics

“#King of the politically incorrect comics” If you think of hot comedians, you might think of Chris Rock or Dave Chappelle or Bill Burr — incendiary stand-ups who cross political and ideological boundaries as they deliver preacher-like sermons on the worst of the cardinal sins: the sin of humorlessness. Jackie Mason, who died over the…

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#How New York Magazine takes the temperature of the city

#How New York Magazine takes the temperature of the city

“#How New York Magazine takes the temperature of the city” All under NYC’s big tent New York Magazine is NYC’s thermometer. Begun 1968 in a little room with 18 people. Now there’s 207. Editor David Haskell says: “New York’s a circus — 50 square miles of high-pressured drama, tension, conflict, posturing, vanity, shame, anger in the most…

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#Tesla cruises past estimates, reports electrifying quarter

#Tesla cruises past estimates, reports electrifying quarter

“#Tesla cruises past estimates, reports electrifying quarter” Electric-car maker Tesla on Monday beat Wall Street expectations for second-quarter profit and revenue as record deliveries offset the impact of a prolonged global shortage of chips and raw materials. Shares of the world’s most valuable automaker closed up 2.2 percent, at 657.62, and rose to 667.01 in extended trading….

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