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Op-Ed | Is unintentionally inflicting an individual’s dying a murder? – New York News

Yaw:5.231598,Pitch:8.667422407756588,Roll:-0.05039562355113958 Photograph by way of Wikimedia Commons I’ve been interested by the sidewalk accident case in Greenwich Village through which an aged man was pushed to the pavement, hit his head, and died. The person who pushed him has been charged with murder. Is that cost correct?  Town’s health worker dominated the dying a murder and a grand jury indicted Escoffier final month for criminally negligent murder. Based on a bystander, Escoffier stated: “I pushed him because he bumped into me.” Escoffier is scheduled to be arraigned later this month. Below New York’s Penal Legislation (§ 125.10) an individual in…

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Op-Ed | New York needs to save lots of native information. They’re forgetting about nonprofits and public media – New York News

Communities throughout New York have grossly insufficient native information protection. The nationwide collapse of native and neighborhood information has led to a 75 p.c drop within the variety of native journalists since 2002 – and a surprising 28 counties in New York are beneath even the anemic nationwide common.  Thankfully, final 12 months the state legislature and Gov. Kathy Hochul acknowledged this downside by creating the landmark Newspaper and Broadcast Media Jobs Program. This primary-in-the-nation initiative will present tax assist for native information retailers to rent and retain reporters and supporting employees. Sadly, because of a fluke in legislative drafting,…

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