#NYC eateries enticing staff to get COVID vaccine

#NYC eateries enticing staff to get COVID vaccine

“#NYC eateries enticing staff to get COVID vaccine” Now that Big Apple restaurant workers are eligible for coronavirus vaccines, eatery owners are walking a fine line trying to encourage them.  Shake Shack staffers get an extra six hours of pay to get jabbed.  “While Shake Shack won’t be requiring vaccinations, we are strongly encouraging it,”…

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#Rethinking Trump’s performance and other commentary

#Rethinking Trump’s performance and other commentary

“#Rethinking Trump’s performance and other commentary” Pandemic journal: Rethinking Don’s Performance The Washington Examiner’s Byron York sees “the beginning of a sense of perspective about the way the Trump administration battled the virus. The bottom line is: Of course, the crisis was awful, but on balance, overall, the United States handled it as well or…

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#NYC Dalton School’s head of diversity is leaving post

#NYC Dalton School’s head of diversity is leaving post

“#NYC Dalton School’s head of diversity is leaving post” The head of diversity at the tony Dalton School — the Upper East Side bastion of privilege that’s been rocked by controversy recently over its heavy-handed “anti-racist” ideology — is out, school officials said. Domonic Rollins, the school’s director of DEI (“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”) is…

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#Some NYC movie theaters say they can’t reopen March 5

#Some NYC movie theaters say they can’t reopen March 5

“#Some NYC movie theaters say they can’t reopen March 5” When New Yorkers return to the city’s big screens Friday, many of the Big Apple’s beloved indie theaters will remain shuttered, according to operators who say they weren’t given enough notice to prepare and that the 25-percent capacity limit is too restrictive to make money….

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#At least five wounded in NYC shootings overnight

#At least five wounded in NYC shootings overnight

“#At least five wounded in NYC shootings overnight” At least five people were hurt in four shootings across New York City overnight, police said. The bloodshed occurred over a two-hour span in the Bronx, Queens, and on Staten Island, where in the latest incident, a woman was shot twice in the left foot near Bay…

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#How NYC can squeeze the rich — and have them enjoy it

#How NYC can squeeze the rich — and have them enjoy it

“#How NYC can squeeze the rich — and have them enjoy it” Let’s change the debate about casino gambling in New York City. Forget the Atlantic City or Las Vegas model of large, noisy, neon-lit airplane hangars packed with dollar slots and poor and middle-class gaming addicts pouring their rent money into a hopeless pursuit…

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#De Blasio’s lame recovery plan won’t end NYC’s Ghost Town

#De Blasio’s lame recovery plan won’t end NYC’s Ghost Town

“#De Blasio’s lame recovery plan won’t end NYC’s Ghost Town” Almost a year into Gotham’s devastating lockdown, Mayor de Blasio has announced the appointment of former school-construction chief Lorraine Grillo as “recovery czar” to, in his words, “super-charge” an economic recovery.  But a close look at the mayor’s sad, thin recovery plan belies his commitment…

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