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Laura Nahmias (on maternity leave!)
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Senior Reporter covering New York City and state politics at Bloomberg News. Fmr Daily News editorial board member and POLITICO reporter LNahmias@Bloomberg.net
New York, USAJoined March 2009
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Inside look at preparation to take four month old baby on her first plane flight in frigid temperatures to visit Grandma on Christmas Eve
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Who Is Rep.-Elect George Santos? His Résumé May Be Largely Fiction.
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This is so nice!!
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Hurrah! @nahmias of @Bloomberg takes home the Front Page Award for Local Reporting: Investigative Reporting for her coverage of the NYC Mayor's Office. Read some of it here: bloomberg.com/features/2022-
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Someone, or something, is aggressively trying to hack into my Twitter account. Now I’m getting a flood of calls from a number that purports to be Twitter, and I can’t tell if it’s legit. It’s an automated message. Is there a human being I can talk to about this?
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There's a man behind the curtain in the Eric Adams administration, making key decisions about New York public safety. A slew of past corruption allegations help explain part of why he's stayed out of the public eye bloomberg.com/features/2022- via
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Adams endorses N.Y. senate candidate with a history of anti-Semitic, anti-abortion, anti-gay rhetoric.
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"Even a single case of paralytic polio represents a public health emergency in the United States."
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"95% vaccination coverage is required to provide herd immunity"
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It's pretty rare to have a state senator's former legislative director go on record against her former boss
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New investigation: People searching Google Maps for an abortion are often led to organizations that urge them to continue the pregnancy. The company has known about the problem, and yet the inaccurate maps results continue. By
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Access to common and potentially life-saving reproductive health services is shrinking in much of the state due to mergers between secular and Catholic-run healthcare facilities.
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equity professionals, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists whose interests she has staunchly defended in Congress, an review of campaign finance disclosures found.
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Who's vaxxed for polio?
💉 92.6% of Americans
💉 86.2% of New Yorkers
💉 56.3% of Williamsburg residents
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www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/dow (h/t )
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NEW: Polio detected in NYC wastewater
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At no point does the mayor explain why he is was comfortable with Pearson keeping his private sector job with a casino that wants city support to expand gambling operations in New York City
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It's also worth noting that neither Channel 4, which broke the Gary Jenkins whisteblower story, nor NYT, which broke the Timothy Pearson story, were offered interviews this morning.
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BREAKING WAPO:
Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of Trump's Florida residence, according to people familiar with the investigation.
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Email and text messages provided to the News 4 I-Team suggest that the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Julia Savel had resisted efforts by Gary Jenkins to conceal crowded conditions in the city's homeless shelter system.
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EXCLUSIVE: New York City's Department of Social Services fired its spokeswoman last Friday, a source familiar with the situation says, following pushback over what the department knew about shelter violations - and who it told. 4.nbcny.com/qYI4mpH
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New York City is closer to rolling out a congestion pricing plan that would charge some motorists as much as $23 to enter Manhattan’s central business district bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via w/
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And responds to
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"Because of the high taxes and out of control crime, people are already volunteering to leave New York City without the Mayor asking."
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.@NYCMayor says he will organize busloads of New Yorkers to door knock and help get out the vote against @GovAbbott
Says Abbott “has got to go.” The two leaders are at loggerheads over migrants who cross the border into Texas being bussed up to New York City for services.
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"I am deeply contemplating taking a busload of New Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good old fashioned doorknocking," says. "For the good of America, we have to get him [Abbott] out of office."
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Mayor Eric Adams announces the city secured $20 million settlement for Chipotle workers, after the chain violated the Fair Workweek law. Chipotle also fined $1 million.
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Heart Failure: Medical Runaround Keeps Man Locked in State Prison Two Years After Being Paroled
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"Forty years ago, America’s maternal mortality rate was 7.5, better than in many European countries at the time. But while childbirth has gotten safer there, today the US is the most dangerous wealthy country in which to give birth." bloomberg.com/news/features/ via
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New York state health officials issued a more urgent call Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio, citing new evidence of possible “community spread” of the dangerous virus.
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I think the big question I have is -- logistically, how does this work? How does the DOE spend last year's amount of money if it was allocated less money this year? Where does the money come from to make that happen? Anyone know?
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New for the web story - Dan Goldman has started to self-fund, and has spent $2.2 million so far on TV ads in #NY10. The race is still pretty tight.
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NEW: Judge indicates he will send education budget back to lawmaker because city did not follow law on process. He does not want a reconsideration of other parts of the budget. Expecting a decision tomorrow.
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Judge Lyle E. Frank is continuing the restraining order on budget cuts to schools. He indicates that he believes the process of adopting the education budget violated state law and asked lawyers for recommended language that would allow a reconsideration of the edu budget only.
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US Rep. Carolyn Maloney apologized to President Biden on Thursday for saying that she didn’t “believe” he would seek re-election, but the New York Democrat stood by her prediction that he wouldn’t run in 2024 bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via
NEW: In a new hiring policy, is requiring pictures of many prospective job candidates at city agencies - a practice his staff said will help him recognize the workforce but one that many officials are privately upset about.
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NYC plans to end school-based COVID testing program this fall, source says
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It's packed, it's hot, and the 5:30 p.m. boat is delayed here at the SI Ferry, where the schedule was cut back because of sick outs
Mayor Adams was here with transportation, emergency management commissioners
I asked Adams if there was a union sick out - he said he didn't know
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I'm scratching my head regarding the mayor's recollection of conversations we've had. To date, we've received no data from the mayor or his team. My most recent exchange with him was about my dismay that he claims to have data that vastly differs from what DCJS and OCA report. 1/
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.@NYCMayor says he has turned over this information about recidivists to NY Assembly Speaker @CarlHeastie who he says “expressed his concern”
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