How New York City can win the food cart war
The City Council has advanced a bill to more than double the number of food vendors in New York from the current 3,100. That’s good, at least in theory: More food carts and trucks mean more lunch options for New Yorkers and tourists, and more opportunities for entrepreneurs. But it’s only good in reality if the city enforces key laws to protect everyone’s quality of life — and adds some new laws, too. New York has had food vendors as long as it has been New York. The food has changed from oyste..>> view originalOfficials Fight Donald Trump's Claims of a Rigged Vote
Mr. Trump’s words, though, appear to be having an effect on his supporters, and are setting off deep concern among civil rights groups. According to an Associated Press poll last month, only one-third of Republicans said they had a great deal of confidence their votes would be counted fairly. And election officials are worried that Mr. Trump’s continued pressing of the issue could dampen turnout or cause his supporters to deny the legitimacy of the results if he loses. Last week, Mr. Trump call..>> view originalNew York Road Runners to Extend Doping Tests to Lower-Tier Races
Photo The starting line for the 2015 Rock ’n’ Roll Half Marathon in Brooklyn. New York Road Runners will begin testing the top local and club runners for performance-enhancing drugs. Credit Ryan Christopher Jones for The New York Times One of the nation’s largest road racing organizations plans to expand its testing for performance-enhancing drugs to include the top runners in its local races, not just those in its top-tier events.For more than a decade, the organizatio..>> view originalIraqi Forces Attack Mosul, a Beleaguered Stronghold for ISIS
Some of Mosul’s remaining one million or more residents had grown bolder in showing resistance to the Islamic State force ruling the city — numbering 3,000 to 4,500 fighters, the United States military estimated. Graffiti and other displays of dissidence against the Islamic State were more common in recent weeks, as were executions when the vandals were caught. Early this month, 58 people were executed for their role in a plot to overturn the Islamic State that was led by an aide of the group’s..>> view originalKurdish Troops Advance on ISIS-Held Villages East of Mosul
BADANA PICHWK, Iraq — Kurdish forces on Monday morning began advancing on a string of villages east of Mosul, the start of a long-awaited campaign to reclaim Iraq’s second-largest city from the Islamic State, which seized it more than two years ago, officials said.About 4,000 Kurdish pesh merga troops are involved in the operation to retake 10 villages, the opening phase of a battle that could take weeks or months and could involve nearly 30,000 Iraqi and Kurdish troops, with American warplanes..>> view originalRipples From the 'How Low Can They Go' Campaign
For voters across party lines, the presidential race was already ugly, already exhausting and already dominated by two candidates many voters found deplorable. And yet it somehow managed to tip into something worse in recent days: a twilight zone of politics where sexual tawdriness and assault accusations have become consuming issues in the final weeks of the campaign. Photo Nicole Smith, a former Miss Arizona USA contestant, said she was angry that her father and others were voting for Mr. Tr..>> view originalReview: All's Not Well in This 'Cherry Orchard'
Photo From left, John Glover, Tavi Gevinson, Diane Lane and Celia Keenan-Bolger in the play “The Cherry Orchard” at the American Airlines Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Toward the welcome end of the Roundabout Theater Company’s terminally confused production of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” a character who has just exhausted himself by dancing like James Brown on steroids laments, “Oh, if only we could move faster through this next part.”Now, if you’..>> view originalDecades After His Death, Max Beckmann Returns To New York
Departure (1932-1933), by Max Beckmann. The Museum of Modern Art, New York/(C) 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn hide caption toggle caption The Museum of Modern Art, New York/(C) 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn One late December day in 1950, Max Beckmann was standing on a stre..>> view originalChina Launches 2 Astronauts on Its Longest Space Mission
Photo The rocket that will propel the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft into orbit at the launch center in Gansu Province, China, on Sunday. Credit European Pressphoto Agency BEIJING — In the latest move in its ambitious space program, China launched a manned spacecraft from the Gobi Desert on Monday morning.Images broadcast on CCTV showed the astronauts giving a salute seconds before launch, and 15 minutes later they could be seen on the live feed clasping their gloved hands, app..>> view originalLeading New York Law Firms Lag in Including Women and Minorities
Large New York City law firms, the economic engine of the $1 billion-plus legal industry, have made scant progress on including women and minorities in their ranks, according to a confidential survey by the New York City Bar Association.“Progress remains incremental,” John S. Kiernan, the president of the association, said of the survey, “and attrition and pipeline numbers are not where they should be.”The law firms, mostly those with 51 to 500 or more lawyers, were required by the association ..>> view original
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