My latest Con Edison electric bill was a real stunner: Between 40 and 50 percent above the previous bill, although only a tiny bit more kilowatts had been used.
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3/22/22
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Since 1974, my husband and I have studied the 1970s cuts in fire service and their immediate and short-term consequences.
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2/6/22
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“Fires have always been contagious, but before 1968, an ‘immunization program’ kept epidemics at bay,” I wrote in a 1998 book with my husband, Rodrick Wallace. It was called “A Plague on Your Houses: How New York City was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled.”
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By DEBORAH WALLACE
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11/28/21
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A recent issue of The Riverdale Press described the noise from parties held at Van Cortlandt and Seton parks.
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10/11/21
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Preventing epidemics require disease detections before infections reach critical mass — the epidemic threshold. New York City’s COVID-19 case detection was mid-March 2020. Mount Sinai Medical Center recently reported mid-February blood samples containing coronavirus antibodies — a month before detection, COVID-19 had spread through Mount Sinai’s patients.
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6/20/21
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State attorney general Letitia James has two Cuomo investigations on her schedule: Sexual harassment of employees and manipulation of COVID nursing home death numbers. Two scandals.
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By DEBORAH WALLACE
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4/25/21
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I got a campaign flyer in the mail from the Eric Dinowitz city council campaign. It promised heaven on earth.
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3/14/21
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I just returned from mailing a book to a colleague. I went to the nearest post office to my home on Broadway near West 230th Street.
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2/14/21
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