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dayda t1_ix3u4k4 wrote
Reply to It seems that you can pretty much park wherever you want if you have paper plates from somewhere else. by Rarek
At this point the only thing actually stopping me from obscuring my own plate is that I support the MTA. Social collateral. There is no actual reason not to. There is no enforcement.
dayda t1_iwq9ons wrote
If you want to look over the total budget, it’s very interesting. Subsidies make up very little of operating revenue as it is.
dayda t1_iu27xt8 wrote
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dayda t1_itueib9 wrote
> instead of continued investment during this period of transition in the New York City DOE, Mayor Adams has recently walked back his commitment to universal 3K seats and is now saying he is “committed to optimizing access to care, as based on family need and preference, for ages birth to five” — and refusing to commit to expanding the program to be truly universal.
In case anyone wanted to read past 10 paragraphs of preamble that didn’t tell us much.
3K and PreK investments are a very good investment. Some of the best ROI downstream we can get. I agree this is a stupid choice for him.
dayda t1_irutudl wrote
Reply to The Ride NYC Shutting Down for Good by Wit50-
To the people who worked as tour guides and drivers, thank you. Y’all loved your job. Lots of people are going to say they don’t care, but they don’t matter. I never took this tour either but I can always tell you loved what you did and made tourists love the city. Hope you find more new ways to keep the love going.
dayda t1_j0bq3do wrote
Reply to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announces funding for mental health initiatives by greenhousecrtv
Recommend listening to the video. Bragg gives two imaginative anecdotes of how the program will go. It answers a lot of questions. In both anecdotes he doesn’t actually suggest any outcome. He paints a picture of prolonged sustaining of adverse situations and mitigation of problems, rather than treatment or a solution based around the larger public sphere and their place in it. It’s not that this isn’t a noble stance - it has a place in any city. Compassionate people connecting those in need with services are important. But…
That’s already being done and $9 million being sent to a separate new program with growing pains, rather than established private non prof orgs who do it better than the city, is not well thought out.
This isn’t the mandate of the DA. The court side of this program is an extension of his dept’s policies towards prosecution (not here to argue if that’s good or bad btw). Beyond that, this program is out of his wheelhouse. He’s putting his face on it as an activist, not as a DA. Why don’t we meet the people in charge instead?
His examples of how he thinks this program will run are going to be rare and best case scenarios. What’s the plan for the worst case scenarios? Will this program have any crossover with the mayors or is this actually an alternative suggestion?
He cites recidivism three times as a major point of this program, but what I heard doesn’t seem to tackle that issue at all. It only suggests getting the same resources they offer outside the court, inside the court as well once arrested.
Other questions include: Does he have a plan for ongoing funding? Staff attrition and turnover? Violent crime situations?
As with many things from Bragg and a lot of activists in his inner circle, I commend them for what they want to do, but they seem to ignore reality and call it compassion just a bit too much. Just my $0.02.