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Ulster County and Bard College have installed 17 street-level air quality monitors at libraries, town halls, and other community hubs, creating a countywide network intended to give residents more localized information about the air they breathe. Most air quality measurements come from rooftop EPA monitors in densely populated areas. The project seeks to fill gaps […]

The post Know What You Breathe: 17 Devices to Monitor Ulster County Air Quality appeared first on The Overlook.

To be clear, the FTC under Donald Trump and new boss Andrew Ferguson has been a dangerous embarrassment. Whether it’s the firing of both Democratic Commissioners, the politically motivated investigations, the extremist attacks on trans people, the agency’s useless attacks on porn, or its efforts to undermine free speech, the Trump FTC has largely been […]

One of the key tools in the tool belt of the anti-vaxxer has long been VAERS, the voluntarily reporting system for adverse events following vaccinations. People who don’t really understand how any of this works often get very, very confused about what VAERS is and is not. It does not contain confirmed outcomes caused by […]

Bari Weiss is seeking out friendly interviewers at the New York Times to try and “calm the firestorm engulfing her leadership of CBS News.” By “leadership” of course they mean censoring stories critical of the president, letting Benjamin Netanyahu pick his own interviewer (who he knows won’t press him on war crimes), firing a bunch […]

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is the largest sporting event in history. It’s also the most surveilled World Cup ever. If you’re visiting or traveling around host cities, then you and your face, behavior, movement and devices are being monitored by governments and private companies. The […]

It’s hard to believe that the same people who spent the Biden years screaming that Democrats were “socialists” out to destroy free market capitalism are now cheerfully handing the federal government ownership stakes in private companies. And yet here we are. Just as Trumpists have decided that their go-to strategy for trying to rile up […]

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ICE has already been operating like a paramilitary kidnapping squad. Officers roam through neighborhoods, stake out hardware store parking lots, and even occasionally enjoy some ethnic food just so they can raid the source of hospitality later. It’s nasty, disturbing, and definitely doesn’t resemble any of the things that have made America great. Now, the […]

Diana Ruiz Cabrera was several hours into her shift at the massive office-to-residential conversion at the former Pfizer headquarters in Midtown in mid-February when she slipped from a step ladder and fell on her back about five feet below, tearing several ligaments in her ankle in the process. She left the structure in tears, descending […]

The post More Worker Injuries Revealed at Evacuated Midtown Tower appeared first on The City Reporter.

The nearly-Olympic-sized Red Hook Pool in Brooklyn can hold more than 4,400 people, but only one would-be bather turned out for a meeting Thursday night where Parks officials explained why the neighborhood’s summer lifeline has failed to open on time.  “This is not something you can foresee — this building is 90 years old, and […]

The post Red Hook Pool Fails to Surface, Again appeared first on The City Reporter.

Two years ago, Jessica Kaplan had about three months to move her entire theatrical scenery shop. The building where Sightline Fabrication had operated since 2008 had been sold, she said, and the landlord needed Kaplan and her partner out. In a frenzy to find a new place, Kaplan toured 30 alternative spaces, but none were […]

The post NYC Manufacturers Fear Losing Lifeline as Budget Cut Imperils Industrial Business Support appeared first on The City Reporter.

This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at https://www.healthbeat.org/newsletters. As the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene tries to identify the source of the Legionnaires’ outbreak on the Upper East Side, elected officials and residents are raising questions about the enforcement of a new law seeking to curb the spread […]

The post Upper East Side Legionnaires’ Outbreak Poses Test for Cooling Tower Inspection Rules appeared first on The City Reporter.

Donald Trump on his housing affordability plan, in his own words:
—"It's so unimportant"
—"It's a big yawn"
—"I don't think about Americans' financial situation"
—"I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up"

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The Trump administration has granted a conflict of interest waiver to an unnamed SEC official, allowing them to hold stocks in companies they are investigating.

Q: What are your plans for the housing affordability bill?

Trump: I don't know. It's so unimportant

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Trump: I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up

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New data reveals U.S. housing prices have hit an all-time high.

Trump announces he will not sign the bipartisan housing affordability bill

Trump has abruptly fired the remaining members of the federal Election Assistance Commission, the nonpartisan entity tasked with preparing local election officials for the 2026 midterms.