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Radioactive Luxury: The Promise of a Penthouse in Ridgewood, Queens
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC Ridgewood has quickly become another recent horizon for NYC real estate speculators taking advantage of the high rent cost. For the first time in 40...
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Profit over Pedagogy: Report Illustrates the Failures of Charter Schools
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC Charter Schools Fail: New Reports Call Their 'Magic' Into Question (via http://crooksandliars.com) By Jeff Bryant May 8, 2014 6:27 am - Comments New...
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Libraries Get Millions to Fix Buildings, Need More
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC LIBRARIES GET MILLIONS TO FIX BUILDINGS, NEED MORE (via City Limits) The proposed city budget includes more than $600 million in capital funds for the...
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Taking Back OUR Schools: Rally and March
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC On Saturday May 17, 2014 educators, parents and education advocates gathered at City Hall Park in Manhattan to rally for democratic, equitable,...
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N.Y. Attorney General Pressed Red Cross on Post-Sandy Spending, Then Retreated
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC Last month we explored the role of the American Red Cross after Hurricane Sandy and the lack of transparency in how the charity spent more than $300...
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Complex Changes in Low-Level Arrests Under De Blasio
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC COMPLEX CHANGES IN LOW-LEVEL ARRESTS UNDER DE BLASIO (via City Limits) Elected on a platform of police reform, the de Blasio administration has cut...
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New Scrutiny of City’s Library Trustees
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC NEW SCRUTINY OF CITY'S LIBRARY TRUSTEES (via City Limits) The trustees of the city's library systems oversee more than 200 branches and the spending of...
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Return of Hometown News: Old-School Reporters and Citizen Journalists Unite...
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC Filling a void left by big city newspapers, online projects combine community news, journalism, and conversations with our neighbors. On a cold night in...
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The End of Pot Prohibition As We Know It
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC This latter-day prohibition is taking an immense toll. The post The End of Pot Prohibition As We Know It appeared first on The BQ Brew.
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Who Advised Cuomo on Mortgage Industry Investigation? A Mortgage Lobbyist
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC The mortgage investigations Cuomo touted as "wide-ranging" came to little, even as he held one of the country's most powerful prosecutorial positions...
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Justice in Wrongful Conviction Settlements, But What About “Problem...
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC Paying Jabbar Collins $10 Million Doesn't Address Problems With Prosecutors by Joe Sexton - ProPublica This story was co-published with the New York...
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Poverty is not Inevitable: What we can do–NOW!
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC Inequality and poverty are suddenly hot topics, not only in the United States but also across the globe. Since the early 1980s, there has been a growing...
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VIDEO: Warren and Krugman talk economics at CUNY
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC Ever wish you could hear Paul Krugman and Elizabeth Warren exchanging ideas? Here you go... (Thanks, CUNY) The post VIDEO: Warren and Krugman talk...
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Communities Expand the CSA Model: 4 Great Ideas to Try
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC Since the first community supported agriculture program was established in western Massachusetts in the 1980s, the concept of buying food directly from...
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Did Cuomo’s Office Edit ‘Politically Inconvenient’ Findings of Fracking Study?
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC Internal government documents show how state officials may have tried "to mitigate any political complication" the research may have caused for Governor...
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Record Homelessness in Billionaire-Heavy NYC
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC Whatever "economic recovery" has happened has mostly benefited the already-wealthy, leaving average New Yorkers further behind than ever. The post...
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Black Male Teens: 21 Times More Likely To be Killed by Cops
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC The finding that young black men are 21 times as likely as their white peers to be killed by police is drawn from reports filed for the years 2010 to...
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Governors Push Privatization, With Disastrous Results
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC Governors are selling off the selling the most profitable public services. The results? State budgets get starved. The public gets terrible service. The...
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Private Donors Supply Spy Gear to Cops
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC There’s little public scrutiny when private donors pay to give police controversial technology and weapons. Sometimes, companies are donors to the same...
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Banning Medical Pot Makes No Sense
The BQ Brew - Based in Queens and Brooklyn, NYC Why deny a cancer or AIDS patient a medication that reduces suffering? The post Banning Medical Pot Makes No Sense appeared first on The BQ Brew.
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