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conulyTruly, today is a red letter day.
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Date: 2018-02-16 12:02 pm (UTC)The Mycenaean tomb is a once in a generation find, so glad discoveries are still being made despite the many cuts to so many grants and programs that fund them.
I read about the Barnes & Noble news earlier this week and it's upsetting on so many levels. I used to work for them during university and I'm devastated to think those whose lives are now upended when they'd been so loyal.
Rikers closing is a long time coming and hopefully things will improve with the transition to local facilities. There's a lot of upheaval and change going on in NY correctional facilities at the municipal state, and federal levels these days - some for the good and some for the drastically worse. I'm hoping the Rikers closure will lean on the good end.
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Date: 2018-02-17 03:28 am (UTC)I'm hoping the Rikers closure will lean on the good end.
I'm trying to hope, but you know how it is.
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Date: 2018-02-18 12:20 pm (UTC)Re: Rikers
It will definitely be a hot mess at first during the transition as the local facilities scramble to meet demand and secure funding. Still between this and the universal free school breakfast & lunch program, not to mention the dismissal of decades old arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses, I'm hopeful NYC will continue to trend progressively. Watch as I say this and then we'll suddenly have a super conservative mayor undo everything and figuratively burn the place down. >_<;
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Date: 2018-02-19 08:48 am (UTC)And fiddle as it burns? You bite your tongue! Egads, Giuliani was bad enough. *shudder*