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Assemblyman Mike Miller announced that the Assembly passed a legislative package that would work to end wage discrimination statewide. The legislation was accompanied by a resolution which proclaimed last Tuesday, Apr. 17, as Equal Pay Day in New York State. More ... Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg introduced a bill last Wednesday, Apr. 18, that would require owners of residential buildings with three or more units in New York City to inform prospective tenants and purchasers whether smoking is allowed inside apartments as well as on balconies, courtyards and rooftops. More ... Building on last year’s strengthening of the state’s rent laws for the first time in nearly two decades, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assembly Housing Committee Chairman Vito Lopez announced a package of bills to further expand tenant protections that ensure everyone has access to decent and affordable housing. More ... City Council Members Jimmy Van Bramer and David Greenfield came together with numerous non-profit leadersin Astoria last Tuesday, Apr. 17, to fight the city’s effort to start charging non-for-profits for city garbage collection. More ... Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo launched the NY-Sun Initiative to double the amount of customer-sited solar power installed annually in New York, and quadruple that amount by 2013. More ... Queens Borough President Helen Marshall urged homeowners to act immediately to prevent the sale of a lien on their property due to unpaid taxes, water or repair charges. “The deadline for resolving these debts is May 17, so I encourage homeowners to act now,” said Marshall. More ... (AP) When fishermen returned to the deep reefs of the Gulf of Mexico weeks after BP’s gushing oil well was capped, they started catching grouper and red snapper with large open sores and strange black streaks, lesions they said they’d never seen and promptly blamed on the spill. More ... (AP) U.S. scientists using sonar and submersibles to map a reefs off Puerto Rico’s northeast coast say they have found a 12- foot hammerhead shark, an undersea canyon that suddenly plunges 900 feet and an enormous orange-and-brown barrel sponge. More ... |
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