Getting back to school hasn’t been easy for many, but it’s been especially difficult for New York City.
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By ROSE BRENNAN
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2/21/21
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Early voting to decide who will fill out the final year of Andrew Cohen's time on the city council is set to begin March 13. And where you can cast your ballot is no longer a mystery now that the city's elections board has shared where early votes will be accepted.
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By MICHAEL HINMAN
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2/11/21
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With the unprecedented events of the past year — including a deadly pandemic and a turbulent presidential election — living through history doesn’t seem to be too uncommon anymore. But few, if any, might have foreseen they’d live through something that hadn’t happened since the War of 1812.
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By ROSE BRENNAN
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1/24/21
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It’s been a rough year for elections.
New York introduced early voting in 2019, then had to scramble to assemble expanded absentee voting as the coronavirus pandemic gripped the city.
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By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
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11/15/20
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For the first time in New York’s history, voters cast ballots early in a presidential race. And it’s a process that has become more eventful than anyone could have guessed.
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By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
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11/8/20
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Who’s going to occupy the White House for the next four years? It’s likely as you read these words, no call in this year’s presidential election has been made.
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By MICHAEL HINMAN
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11/8/20
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State Sen. Robert Jackson stays pretty busy representing his Manhattan constituents, meaning he doesn't make it up to the Bronx very often. But when he was asked to visit IN-Tech Academy Saturday morning, just blocks from the Marble Hill community he represented, Jackson knew he had to be there.
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By MICHAEL HINMAN
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11/2/20
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Michael Simmon may teach U.S. history, but he also believes history is in the making every day. And that’s especially the case after the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement over the past several months.
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By ROSE BRENNAN
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10/18/20
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Just hours before the city’s largest teachers union was ready to call for a strike, Mayor Bill de Blasio conceded a two-week standoff that would push back the physical reopening of school campuses by nearly two weeks.
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By ROSE BRENNAN
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9/13/20
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Everything inside Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy’s bandbox gym had you convinced a Tigers’ victory was only seconds away. Kai Parris, the Tigers’ stellar senior scoring machine, had just completed a three-point play with 7.7 seconds remaining in the game. The scoreboard read 56-55 in favor of RKA over IN-Tech Academy. And the decibel level inside the gym was hitting jet engine levels.
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By SEAN BRENNAN
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1/18/20
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