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Opinion

Opinion: Polling numbers show a fearful and anxious NYC

Here are key themes from our reading of the latest Siena poll

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Commentary: Reflections on parenting to widen one’s perspective on nonprofit board work

As children grow older, I and other parents in my Brooklyn neighborhood shifted to purpose-driven parenting, opening ourselves up to caring about the full community, city, country, and planet.

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Opinion: Mismanagement at nonprofits? Think again

The most significant issues facing the non-profit sector are not widespread fraud but low wages, constricted budgets, and government contracts that only cover a fraction of the total cost of critical life-saving services and are rarely paid on time or in full.

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Commentary: Brittle nature of Latino identity politics shows cracks as political representation falls short, disappoints

Achievements by the state’s Black political establishment has highlighted how Hispanic leaders haven’t made the same progress.

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Opinion: Transgender wellness equity fund needed to create meaningful economic opportunities

If approved, pending legislation would create funding to address inequities that have led to unemployment and poverty for the state’s transgender community.

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Opinion

Opinion: Buffalo supermarket shooting highlights need for co-responder models

With the rise in shootings across the country, law enforcement should no longer be the typical response to a mental health crisis.

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Opinion

Bring back the solitary beat cop and put them on each subway

Patrolling train cars and platforms will bring back straphangers and jumpstart our city’s recovery.

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Opinion

Opinion: Is it 1994 again?

History usually repeats itself and recent polling in New York state points to a worsening political climate for Democrats, including Gov. Kathy Hochul.

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Opinion

Editor’s Note: Leave Delgado’s ethnicity alone

Debating what a person thinks about their own ethnic background is offensive.

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Opinion

Opinion: The silent suffering of Asian women

COVID-19 and hate attacks have taken a disproportionate toll on the mental health of Asian women in New York, and it may get worse.

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Opinion

Opinion: New York’s redistricting process is doomed to fail

Here’s why it’s already time to reform the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission.

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Opinion

Opinion: Making the case for a “Freelance isn’t free” law in New York

Legislation would give independent workers a right to a written contract, timely and full payment and protection from retaliation.

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Opinion: The next generation of nonprofit workers are demanding more for themselves, and we should support them

They should be set up to do meaningful work that helps repair the world, while still living whole, happy, joyful lives.

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Opinion

Opinion: The Tulsa-fication of New York and the rest of America

How the 1921 massacre and destruction of the Greenwood community created the paradigm for the current system of mass incarceration and institutionalized economic exclusion and generational poverty of Black and Brown communities.

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Opinion

Editor’s Note: Delivering on cryptocurrency’s supposed social good

Elected officials need more education about bitcoin before promoting it as a way of benefiting New Yorkers.