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Organizing Gets the Goods: Flatbush Tenants Force Repairs After Decades of Neglect
By Amba Guerguerian On April 20, ...
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Retired City Workers Hold Largest Medicare Advantage Protest to Date
By Indypendent Staff On April 13, ...
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Florida town cancels annual Gay Pride parade as DeSantis set to sign anti-drag ban
By Tatyana Pandanpolie On April 21, ...
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A Florida bill banning ‘ethnic intimidation’ flyers aims to stop the state’s neo-Nazi rise
By Andrew Lapin On March 17, ...
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Florida’s immigration bill targets more than just undocumented migrants
By Helen Acevedo On March 27, 2023 ...
Read More Florida Senate’s ban on minors at drag shows draws criticism from Democrats, LGBTQ activists
By Elitsa Bizos April 12, 2023 ...
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FIU community protests HB999 and administration complacency
By Connor Moore and Diego Diaz ...
Read More Renowned Surgeon and First Latina/Hispanic, Female Chair of Surgery and Surgeon-In-Chief in the United States, Dr. Omaida Caridad Velazquez, Files Suit Against University of Miami; Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine; and the University of Miami Health System, UHealth for Discrimination and Retaliation
By Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP On ...
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Indiana is one of 17 states suing over a federal law that protects students with disabilities
Dylan Peers McCoy Feb 17, 2025 Indiana is one of several conservative states asking a Texas court to declare unconstitutional a 52-year-old federal law that offers crucial protection for people…
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Kansas wrestles with ways to shorten waitlist for disability care
The intellectual/developmentally disabled waiver program still has a long waitlist. That waitlist is shrinking, and Kansas lawmakers want to keep that momentum going. by Blaise Mesa February 14, 2025 Holly Oleson…
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Florida Removes 1.3m People From Health Care Plan
Published Feb 09, 2025 at 5:00 AM EST By Hugh Cameron To watch video report, Click Here. Over one million Floridians have had their health insurance revoked as a result of a…
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New York attorney general tells hospitals to continue transgender care after Trump’s executive order
Feb 3, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday told hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people…
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Dozens of People Died in Arizona Sober Living Homes as State Officials Fumbled Medicaid Fraud Response
by Mary Hudetz and Hannah Bassett Jan. 27, 2025, 7 a.m. EST Reporting Highlights At least 40 Native American residents of sober living homes and treatment facilities in the Phoenix area died…
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Mayor Wu and BPHC Release Health Equity Report, Seek Partners to Close Life Expectancy Gap Across Neighborhoods
First funding round calls for proposals for $5 million of total $10 million investment to improve health outcomes in Boston by bolstering economic mobility and financial security BOSTON – Thursday, February…
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Hundreds march in Boston to support democracy and protest policies of Trump, Musk
The peaceful rally in freezing conditions was supported by 100 civil rights, environmental and progressive groups from Massachusetts. By MICHAEL CASEY February 14, 2025 BOSTON (AP) — Chanting “Stop the…
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For some Boston neighborhoods, heat advisories come too late
Vivian La January 24, 2025 Last August, Boston officials issued a heat advisory when temperatures and humidity were expected to reach dangerous highs. But some neighborhoods had already reached that threshold days…
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‘A forgotten generation’: Older Black men in Boston are dying of drug overdoses at alarming rates
A new analysis shows that they are now hardest hit by the opioid epidemic By Chris Serres and Yoohyun Jung Updated January 30, 2025, 5:00 a.m. Anthony James is the first…
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Anxiety, fear ramp up among Worcester’s immigrants over ICE raids
Henry Schwan Jan. 30, 2025 WORCESTER ― Confusion and fear. Those emotions are alive in Worcester amid reports of President Donald Trump’s administration authorizing raids of undocumented immigrants in several U.S.…
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