#Letters to the Editor — March 14, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — March 14, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — March 14, 2021” Blas’ trash failureThe basic job of government is to keep the public safe, clean and livable for the people who pay taxes (“Pig Apple,” March 11). New York City First Lady Chirlane McCray wants a volunteer police force. Mayor de Blasio wants a volunteer Sanitation Department. Subway…

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#De Blasio’s push for new ThriveNYC waste is latest low

#De Blasio’s push for new ThriveNYC waste is latest low

“#De Blasio’s push for new ThriveNYC waste is latest low” New York City’s co-mayors, doubling down on derangement, say their Christmas gift to Gotham will be 150 new social workers. Oh goody, because a city teetering on COVID-driven bankruptcy can never have too many social workers. Even when most Gothamites would doubtless rather their dough…

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#Bill de Blasio triples down on worthless ThriveNYC

#Bill de Blasio triples down on worthless ThriveNYC

“#Bill de Blasio triples down on worthless ThriveNYC” What New York’s schoolchildren really need now, Mayor Bill de Blasio told the city on Monday, is . . . a mental-health quiz and more social workers. Yes, the mayor is tripling down on his wife’s ThriveNYC initiative, with an all-new, ill-defined focus on counseling for students…

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#De Blasio whistles while NYC burns: Goodwin

#De Blasio whistles while NYC burns: Goodwin

“#De Blasio whistles while NYC burns: Goodwin” During the Vietnam War, American military officials put such an outlandishly positive spin on events that the press corps took to calling the afternoon briefings the “5 o’clock follies.” To judge from the fantasies he’s been spinning, Mayor de Blasio has adopted equally bad habits. He wouldn’t know…

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#Nurse says ThriveNYC ignored pleas for help with psych-wards

#Nurse says ThriveNYC ignored pleas for help with psych-wards

“#Nurse says ThriveNYC ignored pleas for help with psych-wards” A Brooklyn nurse says he repeatedly tried to warn city First Lady Chirlane McCray about the devastating effect of reassigning psych wards to be used for COVID-19 patients — only to be ignored by her billion-dollar mental-health initiative. Irving Campbell, a psychiatric nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist,…

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#Stop letting dangerous lunatics roam free

#Stop letting dangerous lunatics roam free

“#Stop letting dangerous lunatics roam free” What will it take for the city to finally address the clear danger posed by severely mentally ill walking city streets and haunting the subway? An unhinged man tossed a woman onto the tracks at Times Square last Friday. Happily, she managed to get out in time — and…

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