https://www.boropark24.com/news/category/politicsPolitics | Boro Park 247706Donald Trump Eager to Launch 2024 Presidential Bid, Announcement May Come This Monthdonald-trump-eager-to-launch-2024-presidential-bid-announcement-may-come-this-month<p>Former President Donald Trump is eager to launch a presidential bid, he reportedly told associates, and an announcement may be coming in July, seeking to capitalize on the bad shape the country is headed, including high inflation, rising gas prices, and President Biden’s unfavorable polling numbers.</p><p>Trump May also want to expedite his announcement as a way to stave off negative coverage surrounding the January 6th attack at the Capitol, as it is being rehashed through the January 6th Committee Hearings.<br></p><p>Last week’s testimony by a former aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, may have triggered the announcement to be expedited, instead of formally waiting till, after the November midterms, CNN reported, as Trump believes an announcement will allow him to fight the narrative and portray the investigations as politically motivated.<br></p><p>Trump, with an approval rating of around 80% with Republicans, will enter the race as the clear front-runner, but others who are expected to join the race, including outspoken Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, will likely create an ugly primary battle.<br></p><p>While some advisors say Trump is planning a formal announcement, others claim the former President can just send a Truth Social message announcing his run. Aides are reportedly trying to build the proper infrastructure, should an announcement come anytime soon, that Trump should be ready to hit up donors and voters to join his potential campaign.</p><p>Photo: The Hill</p>017/4/22, 9:31 AM87704Hochul Bans Guns in Shuls and Other Soft Targetshochul-bans-guns-in-shuls-and-other-soft-targets<p>By M. C. Millman</p><p>In response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the State's century-old concealed carry law, a new anti-gun bill was signed by the governor and passed into law on Friday, July 1, banning concealed carry weapons in sensitive locations. </p><p>Locations include public transit; houses of worship; schools/daycares; parks; businesses serving alcohol; hospitals; sports/entertainment venues; government buildings, homeless shelters; poll sites; and Times Square. Guns will also be outlawed in all businesses and on private property unless the owner expressly grants permission for firearms. Businesses will have to post a sign stating armed patrons are welcome.<br></p><p>The new gun legislation will not only limit where people can carry firearms but will also place restrictions on who can get a permit. </p><p>It requires that applicants undergo 15 hours of in-person training at a firing range; an in-person interview; and a review of social media accounts. </p><p>Applicants will have to show they have "the essential character, temperament, and judgment necessary to be entrusted with a weapon and to use it only in a manner that does not endanger oneself and others." Licenses will need to be renewed after three years. The bill, set to take effect September 1, also outlaws the sale of body armor.<br></p><p>Regarding concerns being raised about the safety of shuls, Boropark24 spoke with Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein about shul security guards. Eichenstein said he fought for an exemption, and the final bill now has an exemption for shul security guards. <br></p><p>Not everyone is pleased with the governor's latest efforts.<br></p><p>"The anti-2A gun legislation passed today by Democrats in Albany & signed by Kathy Hochul will make New York LESS safe. The threat isn't the law-abiding New Yorker who wants to safely and securely carry a firearm solely for self-defense. Go after the criminals instead!" Congressman Lee Zeldin, who is running for N.Y. governor, tweeted on Friday. <br></p><p>"Now, what they're doing with this action today up in Albany is targeting the law-abiding New Yorker," Zeldin said during an interview with Fox News. "I don't think they're making New York more safe; they're making New York less safe. They're creating these locations as targets because now, as a criminal, if you wanted to carry out one of your acts of targeting someone with an illegal firearm, you know that you're likely to encounter less resistance because the only people who care about these laws passed today are the law-abiding citizens.”</p><p>"Only under the insanity of New York Democrats can you get out of jail free for possessing an illegal firearm," said State GOP party chairman Nick Langworthy, "but be targeted by the government for being a law-abiding citizen exercising your constitutional rights."<br></p><p>Boropark24 spoke with Tzvi Waldman, founder of NYS Jewish Gun Club regarding the new anti-gun bill. “What the democrats are proposing definitely flies against what the Supreme Court ruled,” Waldman says. “The left is throwing a temper tantrum. Their ideology and their emotion completely supersede their logic. The new law is going to get overturned. But for now, it shows how Albany politics work - there’s one party and one rule there. They pushed through the law in 12 hours without regard for the citizens they claim to represent. Their liberal policies have caused crime rates to skyrocket to where they are today, and yet they still think one more law will fix the problem as if it wasn’t their laws that caused the problem in the first place. And the laws that the state passed will definitely be overturned.<br></p><p>“In a greater sense the Supreme Court ruling is a reminder of how thankful we have to be to live in the country,” says Waldman. “As long as we can bear arms, we will never be marched to the gas chambers again.<br></p>017/4/22, 7:57 AM87674US Rep Zeldin to Challenge Gov. Hochul on Nov. 8, When New Yorkers Choose New Governorus-rep-zeldin-to-challenge-gov-hochul-on-nov-8-when-new-yorkers-choose-new-governor<p> By Yehudit Garmaise</p><p> Just after midnight on June 29, the NY Decision Desk Headquarters declared that Gov. Kathy Hochul will face US Rep Lee Zeldin, who represents New York’s 1st District, on Nov. 8.</p><p> With 67.5% of the vote, Hochul claimed a commanding victory over her challengers NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams who stood a distant second with 19.5% of the vote, and US Rep. Thomas Suozzi, who came in last with just 13% of the vote.</p><p> After Andrew Guiliani, who previously served as an adviser to former President Donald Trump, took an early lead on the Republican side, Zeldin, an attorney, and former military intelligence officer in the US Army who served in Iraq, won with 44.3% of the vote.</p><p> Guiliani had earned 23% of the vote early Wednesday morning, and Rob Astorino was in last place with 18% of the vote.</p><p> In the race for lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado has taken the lead with 60.6% of New Yorkers’ votes.</p><p> Degaldo was appointed by Gov. Hochul, after her former Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin resigned on April 12, after he was charged for fraudulent campaign financing and bribery that took place when he was serving as a state senator.</p><p> Ana Maria Archila is now far behind with 25.1% of the vote, and Diana Reyna remains in last place with 14.2% of the vote.</p><p>Photo credit: Zack Fink<br></p>016/29/22, 12:22 AM87673Pinny Ringel Declares Victory in 48th District Leader Racepinny-ringel-declares-victory-in-48th-district-leader-race<p>By Yehudit Garmaise</p><p>With 99% of the votes counted for the position of district leader for District 48, Pinny Ringel, who previously served former Mayor Bill de Blasio, declared victory over incumbent David Schwartz, who was first elected in 2016 when he was 22 years old: the youngest candidate to ever serve as district leader.</p><p>Currently, Ringel has 48.63% of the vote, and Schwartz is trailing shortly behind with 44.87% of the district’s vote.</p><p>Results are unofficial until the Board of Election certifies the winners, although Ringel currently leads with 171 votes.</p><p>While total vote tallies will change slightly as additional absentee ballots are counted, the overall outcome of the race is unlikely to change.</p><p>“I want to thank the voters of the 48th Assembly District for electing me as their next district leader!” Ringel tweeted. “Congratulations to my opponent David Schwartz on a hard-fought race and for his past service to the community.”</p><p><a class="tweet" href="https://twitter.com/Pinnyringel/status/1542002592259182592?s=08" target="_blank">Pinny Ringel </a><br></p>016/28/22, 11:54 PM87644Boro Park Leaders Embrace for District Leader: Pinny Ringel, who Gets Results for the Community, while Remaining Loved by Allboro-park-leaders-embrace-for-district-leader-pinny-ringel-who-gets-results-for-the-community-while-remaining-loved-by-all<p>By Yehudit Garmaise<br></p><p>Representatives from all the kehillas of Boro Park gathered on Wednesday night at the Boro Park home of Meyer Weber to support longtime community activist Pinny Ringel, who is running to serve as the community’s district leader in the upcoming June 28 election.<br></p><p>Ringel, who has been serving the community with a smile for 21 years, previously worked at City Hall during the toughest times of recent years: always advocating for K’lal Yisroel with all his heart and soul, Hershel Dembetzer, a leader in the Bobov community, told BoroPark24.<br></p><p>Yidel Perstein, the chairman of Community Board 12, said, “I have always been amazed at the heart, dedication, and professionalism that Pinny brings while helping our community.”<br></p><p>“He is always there in the hardest times. Whenever anyone in the community needs something, Ringel is there to help.”<br></p><p>A centrist Democrat who embraces the values of the Orthodox Jewish community and not ideas of the party’s far-left, Ringel continues to work with many community organizations, such as Shomrim and Chaverim.</p><p>Although the community treasures Ringel’s reliability, Leon Goldenberg, the first vice chairman of the board of directors at Council of Jewish Organizations in Flatbush, said that what the leadership of Boro Park like best about Ringel is that he “knows that you collect more flies with honey: not with [verbal] punching and fighting.</p><p>“He knows how to get things done in a nice, easy, peaceful way.</p><p>“This is why everyone likes him, supports him, and endorses him.</p><p>Ringel got his start in politics back in 1995, when was working at an electronics store during the day and attending night classes at Touro College, where his business management professor was state Sen. Simcha Felder, who was then serving as chief of staff to Dov Hikind, who was serving as an assemblyman.<br></p><p>In 2001 when Sen. Felder launched his campaign to run for the City Council Representing the 44th district, Ringel volunteered for him in what started his career in politics.<br></p><p>Mayor Eric Adams, who also entered NYC politics 20 years ago, said that ever since, he has been keeping his eye on Ringel with admiration.<br></p><p>“Pinny Ringel has been working so hard all these years,” the mayor said to the heimishe crowd. “I see that all of the familiar faces of the Boro Park leadership came together to support Pinny, and I know that he will continue to work for and be a great advocate for you.”<br></p><p>Contrary to reports that Adams launched Ringel’s candidacy as district leader, at Wednesday’s event, the mayor said that as a longtime friend and admirer of the community, he was taking his lead from the Boro Park leadership to back Ringel, whom was obviously loved and favored by his peers. <br></p><p>“Ringel, who is very down-to-earth, doesn’t have a bad bone in his body. He doesn’t have an enemy. Everyone is his friend and admires him.”<br></p><p>In fact, Rabbi Moshe Indig said with a laugh that he has never seen a person whom so many kehillos claim as their own.<br></p><p>“Belz says he is Belz, Bobov says he is Bobov, Rachmastrivka says he is Rachmastrivka,” Rabbi Indig said. “Wherever he goes, they always say, ‘He is by us.’”<br></p>016/26/22, 2:00 PM87598Dan Goldman, District 10 Congressional Candidate, Sits Down with BP24dan-goldman-district-10-congressional-candidate-sits-down-with-bp24<p>By Yehudit Garmaise</p><p>Dan Goldman, who lives in lower Manhattan, is running to represent Boro Park’s 10th congressional district, and he stopped by the BoroPark24 newsroom to introduce himself today.<br></p><p>From his most recent experience as serving as the lead counsel in the first impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, Goldman said that he learned that being effective in Washington, DC, requires creative argumentation skills that he thinks would serve him well to get things done in the US House of Representatives.<br></p><p>As a Jew and a candidate with a background in law enforcement, Goldman thinks he will be the most effective advocate on Capitol Hill for New York City’s most Jewish district.<br></p><p>Goldman, whose wife is an Orthodox Jew who went to Jewish schools in LA and New York City, said, “I understand the issues in this community much better than anyone else does.<br></p><p>“I am very comfortable and familiar with these communities because it is part of my family too. I am going to be an advocate for this community.”<br></p><p>Anti-Semitism, which Goldman said, “does not get enough attention,” is among his top concerns.<br></p><p>“I am pro-Israel, and some of the other candidates are not.”<br></p><p><b>BoroPark24</b>: What have some of your interactions with the Orthodox community been like?<br></p><p><b>Dan Goldman</b>: On June 8, I attended the Bobov-45 groundbreaking of its new beis medrish, which was a very moving and emotional experience. I was deeply honored to meet the Grand Rebbe and receive a blessing.<br></p><p>Most of my interactions with the Orthodox community, however, are through friends and connections through my wife’s family. I am excited to be meeting with a lot of leaders in the community to better understand the needs and issues of the constituents.<br></p><p><b>BP24</b>: What do you think are some of the needs of the constituents of District 10?<br></p><p><b>DG</b>: One issue that I know comes up is that Jewish funerals need to take place within 24 hours, so when you have relatives in Israel, that can be very complicated. So, as your congressman, I will make sure we have very quick abilities to help to get relatives in town for funerals.<br></p><p>My purpose is to be a base where constituents can go and feel connected. I will make sure my office provides many services so people can get what they need.<br></p><p><b>BP24</b>: What other types of constituent services do you think are needed in District 10?<br></p><p><b>DG</b>: For this community, I am very focused on anti-Semitism and education. Everyone should be able to live the lives they want to lead and grow up understanding and valuing. <br></p><p><b>BP24</b>: What kind of harsher consequences do you think can be enacted to deter those who would commit hate crimes?<br></p><p><b>DG</b>: For hate crimes, I believe that criminals who perpetrate hate crimes should receive extra jail time.<br></p><p>Crimes’ motives do not usually affect sentencing, however, for hate crimes, we need to add penalties when hatred and discrimination are motives. <br></p><p><b>BP24</b>: Where do you hold with government interfering with yeshiva education?<br></p><p><b>DG</b>: I am a believer in the separation of church and state. Just as religions should not influence our government, the government should not influence our religious beliefs, so I think that yeshivas should be able to teach what they want. <br></p><div>"This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity."<br></div>016/21/22, 8:43 AM87544Republican Candidates for Governor Face Off in Only Debate before Primary Election Day on June 28republican-candidates-for-governor-face-off-in-only-debate-before-primary-election-day-on-june-28<p>By Yehudit Garmaise<br></p><p>The Republican candidates vying to run as New York’s nominee for governor faced off tonight in the only debate in which they will take part before early voting starts in just six days: on June 18.
</p><p>The candidates agreed that Gov. Kathy Hochul has adopted liberal policies in New York that have made the state less affordable and more dangerous.
</p><p>When the candidates, who all called for massive cuts in state spending and taxes, were asked whether violence or crime ever personally impacted their lives, businessman Harry Wilson had unfortunately shared that he had recently experienced tragedy.
</p><p>“On Thursday night, my cousin’s father, [who was 77] was murdered in his backyard,” Wilson said. “[The perpetrator] was a monster who was out on cashless bail upstate who had committed two assaults in recent weeks.
</p><p>“He has set a fire in his backyard to draw him out, and then he stabbed him to death.”
</p><p>Wilson said that when his cousin called him, she said, “You have to get elected. You have to fix this problem.
</p><p>“And I am going to do everything in my power to do it.”
</p><p>Giuliani blamed the mass exodus of out of the state on New York’s skyrocketing crime rates, which he said are sky-high statewide, and not just in NYC.
</p><p>“On Day One, I would ask the state Senate and the Assembly that I need a full repeal of bail reform on my desk, or I am not passing anything in your upcoming budget,” promised Giuliani, who participated in the debate remotely in a nearby studio because he had not been vaccinated.
</p><p>US Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-1st) said that the hardest part of serving in Congress has been going to funerals of “people who are dying too young: especially NYPD funerals in which we hear family members asking for action.”
</p><p>Zeldin also pointed out that many crimes that are plaguing New York do not involve guns, such as stabbings, subway shovings, hammer beatings, and hate crimes.
</p><p>“We have to combat all of this raw, violent hate,” Rep. Zeldin said.
</p><p>“Right now in New York, everything is in chaos,” said Astorino. “People don’t feel safe.
</p><p>“We have to get back to what made NYC and all of our cities safe: supporting law enforcement and stop coddling criminals, who deserve to be in jail.”</p><p>
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</p>016/13/22, 9:20 PM87491Gov. Hochul Debates Challengers US Rep Suozzi and Public Advocate Williams on How to Keep New Yorkers Safegov-hochul-debates-challengers-us-rep-suozzi-and-public-advocate-williams-on-how-to-keep-new-yorkers-safe<p>By Yehudit Garmaise</p><p>With only three weeks remaining until New York’s June 28 gubernatorial primary, on Tuesday night, Gov. Kathy Hochul, took to the debate stage for the first time.<br></p><p>Her two primary Democratic opponents are US Rep Tom Suozzi (D-3rd) and NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.<br></p><p>With mass shootings and unceasing gun violence, the candidates were asked, “with the Supreme Court poised to overturn all or part of New York’s century-old law that prohibits residents to carry guns without permits, what steps are you prepared to take to prevent our city and state from becoming the Wild, Wild West?<br></p><p><b>Williams: </b> The 10-bill legislation package that Gov. Hochul signed yesterday to prevent gun violence primarily addresses mass shootings, but in the Bronx, where the governor signed the bills into law, street crime is more of an issue. <br></p><p>“Death is happening,” he said.<br></p><p><b>Hochul:</b> “We cannot have a situation where people can literally carry guns into subways, in grocery stores: with reckless abandon,” Gov. Hochul said. “I pray the Supreme Court does not do that, but we are ready in New York to take action to protect the people of this state.<br></p><p><b>Suozzi: </b>“When the governor was a member of Congress, she voted with, was endorsed by, and took money from the National Rifle Association (NRA). “I have an “F” rating from the NRA. I co-sponsor every piece of gun violence prevention legislation. <br></p><p><br></p><p>Andrew Abdullah, 25, who is accused of killing Daniel Enriquez, 48, on the Manhattan-bound Q train on May 22, had a long rap sheet, yet was freed after a judge set his bail at $1, after denying a request for $15,000 bail.</p><p>If New York judges, like judges in 49 other states, were allowed to consider the threats to society posed by defendants in court, perhaps Abdullah, would have been behind bars and not out on the streets and the subways, CBS reporter Marcia Cramer said.<br></p><p>Why didn’t you use the consider powers of the governor to veto budget items to enact a “dangerousness statute,” Cramer asked.<br></p><p><b>Hochul: </b>Instead of just considering defendants’ level of “dangerousness,” which is subjective, Judges now have discretion now to specifically analyze defendants’ histories, the severity of their crimes, whether they had orders of protection before, and whether they used guns.<br></p><p><b>Suozzi: </b>I 100% support giving judges the discretion to consider “dangerousness” of the defendants who come before them, as judges do in 49 other states.<br></p><p><b>Williams: </b>“Putting $1 billion into the budget to address gun violence, would not have protected Enriquez. Judges can consider defendants’ ‘dangerousness’ in 49 other states, but those states have gun violence that is worse than New York’s.”<br></p><div><i>Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press</i><br></div>016/8/22, 10:03 AM87445Menachem Raitport to Run for New York’s 9th Congressional Districtmenachem-raitport-to-run-for-new-york-s-9th-congressional-district<p>Menachem Raitport, a Lubavitcher businessman who has previously run for elected office, announced his candidacy for New York’s 9th congressional district, which after redistricting encompasses a large amount of Jewish voters.</p><p>Raitport will run on the Republican line, and will likely face the Democratic incumbent Rep. Yvette Clarke in the general election, should he win the primary.<br></p><p>The 9th District includes a large portion of Boro Park, spanning from 14th Avenue and going upwards till deep into Flatbush. It also includes large neighboring areas that have many Jewish voters, including Marine Park, Crown Heights.<br></p><p>Raitport mentioned safety as a reason for his running, telling COLlive that he stands for “family values, conservative values, and wants to increase safety in our neighborhoods.”<br></p>016/1/22, 8:13 AM87297As Biden’s Approval Levels Sink to Lowest Numbers, He Blames Republicans for Nationwide Crime Surgeas-biden-s-approval-levels-sink-to-lowest-numbers-he-blames-republicans-for-nationwide-crime-surge<p>By Yehudit Garmaise</p><p>Despite years of anti-police sentiment coming from the far left, President Joe Biden today intends to blame Republicans for the violent crime nationwide that just won’t stop, when he urges cities nationwide to hire more police officers using $10 billion from his outsize federal stimulus package.<br></p><p>Although Republicans balked at the bloated $1.9 trillion stimulus package because they did not want to overspend and create the historic inflation that now plagues Americans, President Biden is claiming that they did not support his landmark bill because they did not want to spend the $10 billion that was earmarked for “public safety.”</p><p>However, the president did not mention using the funds for policing until months after the bill passed.</p><p>Two years after Democrats painted every police officer in the United States with the same hostile brush, now, with Biden’s approval ratings at their lowest valley and the midterm elections looming on Nov. 8, the president is incredulously claiming that Republicans are not tough on crime.</p><p>Since the U.S.’s messy and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, President Biden’s approval numbers have been sinking: hitting their lowest valley this week, with 61%, of Americans disapproving of how he has failed to handle violent crime, according to a recent CBS poll.</p><p>Now the president hopes to prevent Republicans from taking Congress by characterizing himself as a president that strongly backs the blue, but he risks angering left-wing Democrats who favor slashing police.</p><p>“Let’s consider what Republicans are doing when it comes to making our communities safer,” an administration official outlandishly claimed to the New York Post after years of Democratic anti-police sentiment. “Congressional Republicans voted unanimously in Congress against every cent of the $10 billion that’s now being used by over 300 communities to put more cops on the beat and invest in neighborhood-based crime prevention programs.”</p><div><br></div>015/13/22, 10:00 AM86657Putin Announces “Special Military Operation," Minutes Before Russian Military Invades Ukraineputin-announces-special-military-operation-minutes-before-russian-military-invades-ukraine<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">By Yehudit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Garmaise</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">"Russia has attacked the military infrastructure and the border control in many Ukrainian cities," <span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Ukrainian President </span>Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, posted in statement to socia media, while noting that many residents could hear explosions. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;">President Zelenskyy also announced that he is imposing on Ukraine: martial law, which means that the Ukrainian military will temporarily, in the current state of emergency, control the civil laws that are normally controlled by the government, as civil forces are overwhelmed.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;">"Today, we need each and every one of you to stay calm and stay home," Zelenskyy told a terrified nation. "We are working, the army is working, all sectors of defense and security of Ukraine are working and continuing with a common theme: trying to keep people calm, and trying to keep people from panicking."</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">In a speech Russian President Vladimir Putin gave at 6am local time, he announced a “special military operation," after assembling</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in recent months between</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>150,000 and 190,000 troops along Ukraine’s border, all the while denying that Russia intended to attack its neighbor to the southeast.</span><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Ukrainian residents in multiple cities, including Kyiv, the nation's capital, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Kharkiv</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, are now hearing explosions and sirens that warn of bombs, as live video feeds show the world the large, smoky fireballs that are briefly lighting up the sky.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">"Everything we feared is happening right now," one resident posted on Twitter.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Putin’s invasion comes two days after he gave a startling speech full of falsehoods and propagandistic</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>strange claims that Ukraine “never had a tradition of genuine statehood,” after the country declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, when the U.S.S.R. collapsed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">"Modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia, more precisely, Bolshevik, Communist Russia…after the revolution of 1917,” President Putin claimed, although Ukraine has set itself on a path of democracy and capitalism since 1991.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Although Ukraine now is led by an elected president, Putin claimed that, “even today,” Ukraine “can with good reason be called 'Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's Ukraine,” whom Putin called Ukraine’s “author and architect.”</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Now, in what British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called “the most significant military mobilization in Europe since the Second World War,” Putin announced that Russia is launching what he is calling a “special military operation” with the goal to “de-militarize Ukraine,” which is not militarized, but democratic.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">President Biden, who has tried many diplomatic attempts and economic sanctions to prevent Putin from invading an innocent country, released a statement in which he said, “The prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces.”</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">President<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Biden fears that Putin’s war will bring “a catastrophic loss of loss of life and human suffering.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“Russia alone is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring, and the US and its allies will respond in a united and decisive way</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,” the president said</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“The world will hold Russia accountable.”</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Putin, however, remains undeterred. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">"Whomever tries to impede us," Putin said defiantly, "let alone create threats for our country and its people must know that the Russian response will be immediate and lead to consequences you have never seen in history."</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.6px;"><br></p>012/23/22, 11:12 PM86529Inflation Spiked 7.5% Compared to Last January: a 40-Year Highinflation-spiked-7-5-compared-to-last-january-a-40-year-high<p>By Yehudit Garmaise</p><p>Prices skyrocketed 7.5% in January, when inflation spiked the largest increase from the previous year: since February 1982, the US Labor Department said Thursday. <br></p><p>Worker shortages, outsize government spending, ultra-low interest rates, and healthy consumer spending pushed up prices, the AP reported.<br></p><p>To drive down prices, officials from the US Federal Reserve, the country’s central bank, announced they will raise interest rates, which will slow down consumer and commercial spending that would require loans.</p><p>To maintain economic stability in the US, the officials on the Fed’s rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee meet eight times a year to analyze employment and inflation to decide whether to raise or lower interest rates, according to bankrate.com. </p><p>Few signs yet indicate that prices will come down anytime soon, as ports and warehouses in Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation’s busiest, are still overwhelmed because hundreds of dockworkers called in sick last month. As a result, shortages of products and parts have caused worldwide decreases in supplies of consumer goods. </p><p>Whenever consumer demand outpaces supply: prices increase. Economists say that the surge in spending that increased wages and a reopening of businesses created will balance out soon, CNN Business said.<br></p><p>As workers return to work to reestablish supply chains and higher interest rates cool off financial activity, economics are optimistic that prices will come down eventually. <br></p><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Photo: Flickr</i></div>012/10/22, 10:34 AM86367BDE: Former Politician Sheldon Silver Dies while Serving out his Prison Sentencebde-former-politician-sheldon-silver-dies-while-serving-out-his-prison-sentence<p>(TF)</p><p>Former Democratic Politian Sheldon Silver who served as Speaker of the New York State Assembly until he was convicted of federal charges, has died today at the age of 77. </p><p>Silver served in the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 2015. In 1994 he was selected as the speaker of the assembly which he held for two decades. During that time, he was known as one of the most powerful politicians in the state. </p><p>“Shelly did many wonderful things for the community and the state,” Silver’s former chief of staff Judy Rapfogul said. </p><p>“ I was very proud to be his chief of staff.”</p><p>In 2015 Silver was arrested and later convicted for accepting bribery which automatically disqualified him from the Assembly. </p><p>The politician was given a 6-year sentence during which he petitioned the judge overseeing his case to allow him to complete his sentence at home due to illness. </p><p>“Your honor, I do not want to die in prison,” Silver requested in a letter to Judge Valerie Caproni at the time, which Caproni denied.</p><p>Longtime friend Brian Meara told The Post that Silver “was a great man” despite his misdeeds and that “Shelly was dealt a cruel hand.”</p><p>“He was left in prison to die when everyone knew he was going to die.”</p><p><br></p><p>Photo: Flickr</p>011/24/22, 5:17 PM86303Former President Trump Swipes at Gov. DeSantis, who Doesn’t Sound too Worriedformer-president-trump-swipes-at-gov-desantis-who-doesn-t-sound-too-worried<p>By Yehudit Garmaise<br></p><p>Former President Donald Trump, who lives in mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, in the southern part of the state, and Gov. Ron DeSantis, who lives with his family in the governor’s mansion in the northern part of the state, in Tallahassee, seem to be eyeing both each other warily, like boxers getting ready to fight.</p><p>“They’re the two most important leaders in the Republican Party,” Brian Ballard, a longtime Florida lobbyist with connections to both Trump and Gov. DeSantis, told the New York Times.</p><p>While Trump often claims that his supporters “are begging him to run,” many Republicans are actually looking for a fresh face, after feeling worn down by the former president’s combativeness, his tone-deafness, and the drama he created by his continued claims that the 2020 election was stolen, which sadly culminated in his likely leadership in the Jan. 6 storming of the US Congress as it was attempting to certify the Joe Biden’s victory.</p><p>When discussing possible GOP nominees in 2024, many Republicans see Trump, who is 75 now, as old news, but speak with cautious excitement about Gov. DeSantis, who is 43, a religious Catholic, supportive of Israel, and an outspoken defendant of personal freedoms that many Americans feel the government trampled on throughout the pandemic.</p><p>“[DeSantis] is Trump but a little smarter, more disciplined, and brusque without being too brusque,” Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor told the New York Times. </p><p>While political commentator Ben Shapiro often summed up Trump by saying that “he had good policies, but bad tweets,” Gov. DeSantis is more savvy, less impulsive, a Navy veteran who served in Iraq, and a graduate of Yale, whose rampant atheism and lack of patriotism he has criticized.</p><p>Trump, however, who feels that he helped Gov. DeSantis transform himself from a little-known Congressman, to a popular governor, now seems to feel that the Florida governor should stay grateful and non-threatening to Trump, who has been complaining about the Florida governor's chutzpah.</p><p>Unlike other possible GOP nominees, such as former UN Ambassador Nikki Halley, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Gov. DeSantis has not taken care to say said that he would not challenge Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination, Axios reported.</p><p>With his usual tiresome tactic to attack and name-call anyone who threatens him, Trump has also said DeSantis is an “ingrate with a no personal charisma and dull personality.” </p><p>Last week, for instance, when Gov. DeSantis decline to reveal whether he received his COVID booster shot, Trump, who had publicly acknowledged that he had received his booster, lashed out publicly at the Florida governor, called him “gutless,” and accused him of dodging the question to avoid the judgements of the anti-vaxxers and others who adore him.</p><p>“I've done whatever I did,” Gov. DeSantis said vaguely in December when asked whether he had received the booster. “The normal shot."</p><p>President Trump, whose administration helped develop the vaccines in record time through Operation Warp Speed, has dismissed vaccine conspiracy theories, and has said that “the vaccine worked” and that they do not cause any harm.</p><p>On Friday, Gov. DeSantis shot back by saying that one his biggest regrets was not speaking out "much louder" in March 2020, when Trump advised the American public to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus.</p><p>In fact, Gov. DeSantis’s complaints about lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and masks since the start of the pandemic, not only made him a celebrity politician of the far right, but drew many Americans during the pandemic to move to Florida, which became the most moved-to state of 2021.<br></p><p>When he was president, Trump had the power to demand total loyalty from his underlings, however, Gov. DeSantis, who now often appears on FoxNews, as Trump once did, has reportedly told friends that Trump’s expectation that everyone in the Republican party accede to his desire to run in 2024 is not reasonable, nor required.</p><p>Conservative commentator Anne Coulter, who had a falling out with Trump, like so many others have had, told the New York Times, “Trump is done. You guys should stop obsessing over him.”</p><p>Photo by: Flickr</p>011/18/22, 9:48 AM86220Bed, Bath & Beyond to Close Seven New York Locations by End of Februarybed-bath-beyond-to-close-seven-new-york-locations-by-end-of-february<p>By Yehudit Garmaise<br></p><p>Among the 37 Bed Bath & Beyond stores that are permanently closing nationwide by the end of February due to plummeting sales, are seven of the popular home and bath goods retailer’s locations in New York.</p><p>In addition to the location at 14B Spring Valley Marketplace, Bed, Bath & Beyond stores also will be closing up shops in Auburn, Canandaigua, Glenmont, Niagara Falls, Plainview, and Port Chester. </p><p>When sales fell 50% and the company lost billions during the height of the pandemic, Mark Tritton, Bed, Bath & Beyond’s CEO, said he want to cut his losses by closing 200 of its largest stores by the end of 2022.</p><p>The stores closures will save the company annually between $250 million and $350 million, excluding related one-time costs, explained Tritton, who added the company would also launch efforts, such as remodeling, de-cluttering, adding new brands, and installing brighter signage, to revitalize the stores that are remaining open.<br></p><p>Interestingly, while business continues to slow at Bed, Bath, & Beyond, the company saw growth in another business it owns: Bye Bye Baby, which sells clothing, strollers, and other necessities for parents of infants and young children.<br></p><p>In 2007, Bed, Bath & Beyond bought seven Bye Bye Baby stores, some of which are in the Bed Bath locations, and which now number 135 stores. </p><p>Because Bye Bye Baby, which was founded by brothers Richard and Jeffrey Feinstein in 1996, is owned by Bed, Bath & Beyond, the home good store’s famous coupons can be used in both stores.</p><p>“We are executing a full-scale transformation and simultaneously running a business in a highly unpredictable environment,” said Tritton during an earnings conference call. </p><p>Photo by: Flickr</p>011/9/22, 11:30 AM86188Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Turns a Blind Eye on Crimesmanhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg-turns-a-blind-eye-on-crimes<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">By Toby Friedman</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Alvin Bragg, sworn in as Manhattan
District Attorney on Jan. 1,</span> expressed to his staff that he does not
intend to prosecute certain crimes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bragg is planning to intentionally
turn a blind eye to crimes like trespassing, resisting arrest, interfering with
an arrest, turnstile jumping, and more. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Additionally, the DA’s office will
only take seriously homicide, class B violent felonies in which a deadly weapon
causes serious injury, and domestic violence felonies when it comes to prison
sentencing. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">This greatly underestimates the
severity of milder crimes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The memo argues that “reserving
incarceration for matters involving significant harm will make us safer.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">"We continue to have serious
concerns about the message these types of policies send to both police officers
and criminals on the street," PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">"Police officers don’t want to
be sent out to enforce laws that the district attorneys won’t prosecute. And
there are already too many people who believe that they can commit crimes,
resist arrest, interfere with police officers and face zero consequences."</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Lynch added that he looks forward
to "discussing these issues" with Bragg.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Mayor Eric Adams, who stood for
addressing the crime problem in his campaign, said during a press conference on
Tuesday that he has not seen Bragg’s memo.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Photo: Alamy</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>011/5/22, 11:48 AM86130Mayor-elect Eric Adams Supports Yeshiva Education, says he will be “Culturally Sensitive”mayor-elect-eric-adams-supports-yeshiva-education-says-he-will-be-culturally-sensitive-1<p class="MsoNormal">By Yehudit
Garmaise<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">After a number
of different organizations with different hashkafos regarding yeshiva education
sent Eric Adams, in the last few weeks, letters to try to begin the battle to
win him over to their ways of thinking abut whether secular studies in yeshivas
needs to be boosted, a reporter asked the mayor-elect what was his response to
those letter, he was refreshingly supportive of the yeshiva system.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“I visited
several yeshivas during the campaign, and what I do know is that those who are
there teaching the students, the literature that I looked at is supportive of a
well-rounded quality education that we are going to encourage,” Adams said.
“With the small number of yeshivas that we were having problems with should not
be the message for the large number of yeshivas that are doing the right thing.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“I am going
to give support through my chancellor and my office to support to all of our
educational facilities, said Adams who said that he would not “get caught up in
the dialogue of charter schools, public schools, and yeshivas.”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Everyone is
going to receive the support they need to develop the full potential of our
children, and then we need to look at the methods that we are using,” Adams
said. “Some of the books that I saw in the yeshivas: maybe they were not
Shakespeare, but they were still scholarly work.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Everyone is
looking at culturally sensitive education: and that includes yeshivas,” said
Adams, echoing a previous conversation he had with BoroPark24. </p>0112/30/21, 3:05 PM85954News Sparks: Israeli PM Bennett Made First Official Visit to UAE; Languages Other than English and Spanish Spoken at Home in the US Continue to Increase; Plants “Scream”news-sparks-israeli-pm-bennett-made-first-official-visit-to-uae-languages-other-than-english-and-spanish-spoken-at-home-in-the-us-continue-to-increase-plants-scream-1<p>By Yehudit Garmaise<br></p><p><b>Prime Minister Bennett is Welcomed in Dubai, in First Diplomatic Visit by an Israeli Leader
</b></p><p>Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, the first Israeli leader ever to do so, met with United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the UAE’s top diplomat, more than a year after the normalization of relations between the two countries that took place with the Abraham Accords on Sept. 15, 2020.
</p><p>After the singing of the Accords, which were brokered, in large part, by former President Donald Trump and former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Bibi had had repeatedly tried to schedule a visit to the UAE, but after he was forced to cancel many times, he never made the trip.
</p><p>“I appreciate your warm hospitality,” said Prime Minister Bennett in Abu Dhabi today about the trip, whose aim was to further expand ties between Israel and the UAE. “This is a wonderful reception.
</p><p>The UAE foreign minister is the brother of the UAE’s leader, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, whom Bennett will meet Monday morning.
</p><p>“I am very excited to be here, on the first official visit by an Israeli leader here,” said Bennett, who was greeted at the airport by a ceremonial, formal greeting, in which dozens of local officials stood at attention as he and the foreign minister walked down a blue carpet. “We expect to strengthen the relationship between the countries.
</p><p>“The ties are excellent and diverse, and we must continue to nurture and strengthen them, and build a warm peace between the two nations,” Prime Minister Bennett said in a video statement from the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport.
</p><p>Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco later also joined the Abraham Accords, and other countries were also rumored to be in talks, although none, so far, have come to fruition.
</p><p><b>Search and Rescue Efforts Continue in Areas Ravaged by Tornadoes
</b></p><p>After what may be the deadliest tornado ever recorded took place on Friday and Shabbos, the number of deaths, which are thought to be 94, remained the same as yesterday, although Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said that he was mindful that "those numbers are going to continue to grow as we go house to house, home to home."
</p><p>Although the search and rescue efforts continue after the twister, which barreled through the ground for more than 100 miles, no one has been found alive since 3pm yesterday.
</p><p>Thousands of homes have been decimated, said the Gov. Beshear, who said, with shock, that “parts of the state are just gone.”
</p><p>"I wish I understood why we've been hit by the pandemic, historic ice storms, flooding, and now the worst tornado in our history," said Beshear, who said that President Biden has granted Kentucky an immediate federal state of emergency.
</p><p>The US federal government has been delivering food and water and providing shelter, power, and other necessary aid to the 31,000 residents who initially not have power, said Homeland Security chief Alejando Mayorkas. The number of people without power is down to 5,600, but some fear utilities in hard-hit Bowling Gree will take weeks to return.
</p><p>Six people who hailed from both Illinois and Missouri died while working in Edwardsville, Ill., in an Amazon warehouse, when the roof collapsed and a football-field sized wall caved in.</p><p>At least four people were killed in Tennessee, two in Arkansas and two in Missouri.
</p><p>"We're going to grieve together, we're going to dig out and clean up together and we will rebuild and move forward together," said Beshear, who explained that the state’s biggest challenge now is to organize and distribute the many donated supplies to help the state's residents.
</p><p>Gov. Beshear has deployed more than 300 National Guardsmen to help with the task, and the governor said the state parks are open for residents to take shelter.
</p><p><b>Census Bureau Determines Most Common Languages Spoken in US: After English and Spanish
</b></p><p>After English and Spanish, which is the second-most spoken language in the US, Mandarin and Cantonese are the next most common languages spoken nationwide, according to The US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), which regularly conducts survey to determine facts about the lives of the 329.5 million people who live in the US.
</p><p>With each new wave of American immigrants, the number of languages spoken here increases.
</p><p>While approximately 78% of Americans who are five and older reported in 2019, speaking only English at home, regardless of their country of birth, the remaining 22%, reported speaking a language other than English at home.
</p><p>After Spanish, which 61.6% of the non-English speakers in the US reported speaking, the next largest group was comprised of 5.2% of the non-English speakers, who speak Mandarin and Cantonese. Tagalog, a language of the Philippines, comprise 2.6% of the foreign language speakers at home, and 2.3% speak Vietnamese.
</p><p>Then, the languages for whom fewer than 2% of the non-English speakers use at home were, in descending order: Arabic, French, and Louisiana French, Korean, Russian, Haitian Creole, and German, was the lowest number reported: 1.3%.
</p><p>The number of Yiddish speakers in America, which was not reported in the census, is likely something like 0.4% of those who do not speak English at home.</p><p><b>President Biden told National Security Team: “Be prepared” if Diplomatic Talks Fail to Stop Iran from Developing Nukes
</b></p><p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that President Joe Biden continues to believe the best way to stop Iran’s nuclear program is through pursuing diplomatic channels, but he has told his National Security Team: “Be Prepared” if those talks do not work.
</p><p>After months of indirectly negotiating with Iran to stop it nuclear armament, President Biden appears to be worried that all the diplomatic talks will not amount to much.
</p><p>"Given the ongoing advances in Iran’s nuclear program the president has asked his team to be prepared in the event that diplomacy fails," Psaki told reporters. "We must turn to other options and that requires preparations.
</p><p>"We have made clear to Iran that the only path out of sanctions is through nuclear compliance," Psaki said, adding that the Biden administration has kept in place all the sanctions that were set into place by former President Donald Trump.
</p><p>"If diplomacy cannot get on track soon and if Iran’s nuclear program continues to accelerate then we will have no choice but to take additional measures to further restrict Iran’s revenue-producing sectors" the chief White House spokesperson said.
</p><p>To show Iranian officials that the US is serious in its intent to economically burden Tehran and to ensure that existing sanctions are being enforced, a delegation of treasury officials who are led by the director for the Office of Foreign Assets Control, Andrea Gacki, will head to the United Arab Emirates next week.
</p><p><b>Plants Emit Ultrasonic “Screams,” when Stems are Cut, or they are Deprived of Water
</b></p><p>Tomato plants and tobacco plants emit a high frequency distress sounds when they undergo environmental stress, such as having their stems cut, or being deprived of water, according to a recent study conducted by a team of scientists at Tel Aviv University.
</p><p>The researchers conducted a study of the plants by depriving them of water and by cutting their stems and then recording their responses with a microphone that was placed 10 centimeters away.
</p><p>While plants that are not threatened with any imminent dangers produce less than one ultrasonic sound per hour, when under distress, the tomato and tobacco plants in the study began to emit ultrasonic sounds between 20 and 100 kilohertz, which the scientists believed conveyed their distress to other nearby plants and organisms.
</p><p>When a tomato plant’s stem was cut, the researchers found it emitted 25 ultrasonic distress sounds over the course of an hour, according to Live Science.
</p><p>Tobacco plants sent out 15 distress sounds when their stems were cut.
</p><p>Last year, another study found that some plants, after having their leaves plucked or even touched, registered pain by releasing a foul-tasting chemical across their leaves, believed to ward off insects.
</p><p>“These findings can alter the way we think about the plant kingdom, which has been considered to be almost silent, until now,” the group wrote in a paper that summarized their findings that they posited could help farmers better identify potential problems, such as in intense wind and rain, with their crops.</p><p>
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</p>0112/12/21, 9:08 PM85822Gov. Kathy Hochul says, “Omicron is coming,” Prepares State’s Hospitals for Possible Influx of Patientsgov-kathy-hochul-says-omicron-is-coming-prepares-state-s-hospitals-for-possible-influx-of-patients<p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">by Yehudit Garmaise</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">“W</span></span><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">hile the new Omicron variant has yet to be detected in New York State</span></span><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">:</span></span><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"> it's coming</span></span><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">,” said Gov. Kathy Hochul, who on Friday afternoon signed an executive order that ensures the state’s hospitals can </span></span><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">provide enough beds for what may be </span></span><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">yet </span></span><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">another COVID surge</span></span><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">Before the discovery of Omricron, South Africa was seeing, a day, approximately 200 COVID cases, however, on Thursday, that number spiked to 2,500 cases a day.<br></span></span><br></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.4px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">Gov. Hochul announced a state of emergency that gave permission to the Department of Health to, once again, limit non-essential, non-urgent hospital procedures, if necessary, to ensure that the state’s health facilities can</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.4px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"> provide enough hospital beds to New Yorkers who need them.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">The governor’s order takes place j</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">ust 18 days after New York City was celebrating the return of international tourists,</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"> </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">who provide a large part of the city’s econom</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">y</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">, but who also might have already brought the new COVID variant into the state.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">T</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">he emergenc</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">e</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"> of the new Omicron COVID variant, unfortunately, </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">caused </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">Gov. Hochul today </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">to </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">announce that she is preparing the state to ensure that enough hospitals rooms, and not hotel rooms, are available.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">Gov. Hochul’s e</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">xecutive </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">o</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">rder also </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">will address staffing shortages and </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">enable New York to</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"> more quickly</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"> acquire</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"> medical </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">supplies </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">that are critical to c</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">ombat</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">ting</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"> </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">COVID</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"> </span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">On Nov. 8, 253 international flights were the first in nearly two years to fly into New York City airports from all over the globe, reported Fred Dixon, who is the president and CEO of NYC & Company, which promotes travel to the city.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"></span></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">Dixon and Mayor Bill de Blasio celebrated that “it takes the spending of four domestic travelers to equal that of one international traveler in New York City,” but President Joe Biden's reopening of American borders may have led to the introduction of the Omicron variant into the US.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">In a new travel ban that will not take effect until Monday, President Biden has disallowed travel from South Africa, where the new variant was first found, and seven other African countries that are near South Africa.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">For the past month, health officials have worried about the increased travel and gathering of the upcoming holiday season and the cold weather that drives people indoors, where COVID is more likely to spread.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">"In preparation, I am announcing urgent steps today to expand hospital capacity and help ensure our hospital systems can tackle any challenges posed by the pandemic as </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">we head into the winter months</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">,” Gov. Hochul said. </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">“</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">The vaccine remains one of our greatest weapons in fighting the pandemic, and I encourage every New Yorker to get vaccinated, and get the booster if you're fully vaccinated."</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Photo credit: Darren McGee- Office of former Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)</span><br></span></p>0111/27/21, 7:49 PM85697Gov. Kathy Hochul Says MTA Fare Hikes are Off the Table Because of “Long Overdue” Infrastructure Billgov-kathy-hochul-says-mta-fare-hikes-are-off-the-table-because-of-long-overdue-infrastructure-bill<p>By Yehudit Garmaise</p><p><br></p><p>Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which includes $621 billion for transportation, has ensured that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will not need to raise fare rates and that service cuts that were planned for 2023 and 2024 are now completely off the table.</p><p> "We anticipate that there'll be no fare hikes for the MTA,” Gov. Hochul said at the Albany International Airport on her way to the White House for the president to sign the long-awaited infrastructure bill to make many repairs in the categories of transportation, water, broadband and power, housing and education, research and development, and manufacturing and labor.<br></p><p>In the transportation category, for instance, the US has slotted to use $620 billion to improve and modernize roads, highways, bridges, Amtrak, and freight rail service, electric vehicles, airports, and ports.<br></p><p>“Those of you who are commuters on the MTA and have been anxious about how much [fares are] going to go up, especially in this era of inflation, I'm really excited to say that we will not have to raise the fares or have any service cuts,” said Gov. Hochul who called Biden’s infrastructure bill “a long overdue, generational opportunity to transform infrastructure in America.”<br></p><p>Mayor Bill de Blasio was happy to say that he would also be attending the bill-signing at the White House, “celebrating the importance of this moment.”<br></p><p>Although Mayor de Blasio said that areas in the US “need help” with their infrastructure, “our older cities and our bigger cities like New York City, especially needed the federal funds to make improvement.<br></p><p>Infrastructure is “one of the areas with which New York City needs the most help: to improve mass transit and make roads and bridges safer and better.<br></p><p>“I'm going to be down there in Washington with the president and everyone else celebrating the importance of this moment,” the mayor said this morning. “We have been waiting literally for decades for this kind of investment in infrastructure in this city.”<br></p><p>“We could not move forward into our future without a federal partner helping us with infrastructure, which the mayor called “the money we need to improve all of the things that are going to take us into a greener future. <br></p><p>“Make sure there's more bike lanes, more busways, to make sure that Vision Zero and safety come first. 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