Also Wednesday, the mayor signed a bill requiring all stores to close their doors when a cooling system such as air conditioning is running, to save electricity.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio will be heading to Israel next week, where he will address the need to fight anti-Semitism before a conference of mayors.
State auditors say the New York City Department of Probation has failed to properly supervise thousands of people convicted of drunken driving, allowing them to evade the required installation of ignition interlock…
Bill de Blasio’s pro-crime policies have helped turn New York City into a shooting gallery. More than a dozen groups urged Mayor de Blasio, to reconsider the city’s participation, citing what they called an unfair focus on the activities of law-abiding American Muslims. He will depart New York City late Thursday evening and arrive in Israel Friday, staying until Sunday night.
The Mayor’s office announced the planned Israel trip back in March, though at the time, it had been planned for the summer.
The gift was made by Israeli entrepreneur Baruch Eliezer Gross.
Well, for de Blasio and politics in general, perhaps it’s more the thought that counts.
Security costs will be covered by the NYPD, the mayor’s office said.
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The decision to join the Strong Cities Network, had drawn scrutiny from American Muslim activists, the New York Civil Liberties Union and civil rights lawyers, according to the Times report. “New York City can provide other cities with a model for protecting all communities against hate”, Mr. Gross said in a statement sent via e-mail by a spokesman. Parish said she’s “concerned” about a “wrong” de Blasio proposal before the Board of Correction, an oversight panel, to limit jailhouse access to inmates by visitors with serious criminal records.
