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Thousands more public school students will receive free swim lessons next year under new City Council funding, part of a long-term effort to teach every second grader in New York City how to swim. The Council has allocated $1.5 million to the nonprofit group Wave Makers, which was first launched more than two years ago […]

The post From The Bronx to the Battery, More Funding for Free Swim Lessons appeared first on The City Reporter.

New York will impose a yearlong moratorium on new energy-intensive data centers, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday — the first such ban in the country as officials scrutinize the burgeoning sites’ impact on local environments. Under an executive order, the state will not grant environmental permits for data centers of at least 50 megawatts for […]

The post Hochul Temporarily Bans New Data Centers in NY Amid Scrutiny of Climate Impacts appeared first on The City Reporter.

The parents of a teenager who tumbled to his death from a breakaway horse carriage in Central Park last month will this week plead with the City Council to banish the tourist trade from the park. A Wednesday hearing on the future of horse-drawn rides that have been Central Park fixtures since the 1860s follows […]

The post Last Roundup? Council Hearing Set Over Central Park Horse Ban. appeared first on The City Reporter.

New Bridge, Paris #cortes #edouardcortes

Lake Powell reaching critically low elevation levels, nearing 'dead power pool,' experts say.

The FCC authorized Reflect Orbital to launch the mirror satellite Eärendil-1. “For optical astronomy, this poses an existential threat,” the European Southern Observatory said.

When I built Jamie's Front-End Editor for Content Teams, the idea was simple: let a client fix the words on their live site by clicking the text and typing, without ever opening the block editor or learning WordPress. No dashboard, no interface, just edit the page in front of you. The idea landed. But the […]

Judge Kathleen Williams has laid out the problems with the Unitary Executive: Donald Trump can never be adverse to DOJ in any proceeding.

The post Judge Kathleen Williams Hoists the Unitarians on Their Fraudulent Petards appeared first on emptywheel.

Photos taken on a mobile phone can include metadata. I like it for various reasons. My various projects depend on metadata, such as date, location, orientation, etc. But more and more, the phones are removing that metadata when I transmit it. Some of them also change the file name. But I care, and...

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