Month: June 2023

NYU LANGONE OPENS NEW FAMILY HEALTH CENTER IN RED HOOK MAL CARE RED HOOK – NYU Langone’s Red Hook Family Health Center opened this week on Van Brunt Street, the first in nearly 12 years. This is the ninth medical and dental clinic and school pediatric site that the Family Health Centers have opened at NYU Langone, one of the largest networks of federally qualified health centers in New York, with a mission to bring more primary and preventive ambulatory care to area residents. The new 4,500-square-foot facility offers primary care, pediatrics, women’s health, behavioral health and dental services. Support…

Francis X. Suarez, the two-term mayor of Miami who formally announced his entry into the 2024 presidential race on Thursday, is emerging as a new face in the Republican Party: a 45-year-old in a field led by a septuagenarian . , and a Cuban-American in a party whose elected officials are overwhelmingly white. In a speech at the Reagan Library in California on Thursday evening, filled with calls to decades-old Republican slogans like George HW Bush’s “thousand points of light,” Mr. Suárez declared his candidacy referring to another and his own. slogan of a Twitter post he made in 2021…

By Alejandra Reyes-Velarde | CalMatters When State Sen. Maria Elena Durazo introduced a bill in March to strengthen the California Tenant Protection Act, she he asked to lower the lid rent increases of up to 5%, while closing the loopholes that landlords use to evict tenants when there is no “just cause”. By the time his “homelessness prevention” bill moved to the Senate floor on May 31, negotiations and compromise had watered it down. The rent cap provision disappeared and several other provisions were significantly reduced. That the bill lost some of its steam disappointed tenants’ rights groups that had…

DURHAM, NC – Business owners are concerned about a law they fear will slow economic growth in North Carolina. What you need to know Businesses are expressing concern over the legislation, which they fear will hurt the economy The Women, Children, and Families Care Act restricts abortion in North Carolina Business owners say it will deter people from moving to and visiting the state Clients in a resting pose during a prenatal yoga class at Blue Point Yoga. (Spectrum News 1/Rachel Boyd) More than 200 businesses that signed the Don’t Ban Equality in NC letter say the Care for Women,…

A nonprofit organization dedicated to chronicling the history of the LGBTQ movement in the Deep South said it was “appalling” that two Republican state lawmakers criticized the group’s presentation Thursday hosted by the Alabama Department of Archives and History as a promoter of the “liberal LGBTQ political agenda”. “I don’t think they know what ‘politicize’ means,” said Maigen Sullivan, co-founder of the Birmingham-based company. Invisible Histories Projectwho gave the lecture organized by ADAH entitled “Invisible No More: Alabama’s LGBTQ+ Story” Thursday in Montgomery. 1819 News, a website that It was owned by the Alabama Policy Institutepublished in event preview Wednesday….

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To receive it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — As Donald Trump plans his criminal defense in the classified documents case, Republican candidates seeking to block his political redemption are slowly making political calculations. In the simplest terms, the growing Republican primary field faces a basic question about the former president: Would they forgive him if elected to the White House? The answer, however, is to tie some candidates to uncomfortable positions. Ultimately, they need to explain in very real terms to Republican voters why…

On Thursday afternoon, the Oregon Senate passed a bill that would prohibit any political candidate or committee from accepting more than $100 in cash per year from any source. The clause prohibiting cash contributions of more than $100 was added as a House Rules Committee amendment to an existing ballot bill approved earlier in the session. That bill, with the cash contribution amendment, was re-approved Thursday afternoon by a resounding 22-0 vote. Republican lawmakers drafted their own version of the bill in mid-May, but it never received a first hearing because of the Republican walkout, which ended today. Related: Senate…

Suarez backs federal 15-week abortion ban, says it has ‘credibility’ in immigration conversationBidens and Eva Longoria screen film ‘Flamin’ Hot’ about the origins of the spicy snack CheetosDeSantis steps up feud with Newsom, dares California governor to face Biden in 2024Supreme Court upholds law aimed at keeping Native American children with tribal familiesDonald Trump scores rare legal victory as DA lowers golf course taxes… READ MORE Suarez backs federal 15-week abortion ban, says it has ‘credibility’ in immigration conversation Bidens and Eva Longoria screen film ‘Flamin’ Hot’ about the origins of the spicy snack Cheetos DeSantis steps up feud with…