Showing posts with label new york. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new york. Show all posts
Monday, March 24, 2025

Cannabis, NYC style (2025)

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 Here's a modern view from Times Square. (Note the warning and font size in yellow at the bottom of the sign...)    
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

States' fights over abortions: New York moves to shield doctors from prosecution in states with abortion bans

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  Not all politics is Federal, even in these unprecedented times. The NYT has the story: N.Y. Moves to Shield Doctors Who Send Abortion Pill...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Adultery is no longer a crime in New York State.

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 Not only is jaywalking no longer a crime in New York City, the seldom-enforced criminal law against adultery in New York State has now bee...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Walk free in NYC, where jaywalking is no longer a crime

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In NYC jaywalking is no longer a crime, or at least it won't be at the end of January, if I read the story correctly.  But I'm guess...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Growth pains for legal marijuana, in Germany and New York

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Transitioning from a thriving black market for marijuana to a regulated legal market isn't so easy. The Guardian has the story from Germ...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

Medical aid in dying debated in NY, extended in the Netherlands

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 Here are two related stories, one from the NYT about a debate on whether to allow medical aid in dying in New York State. The other is from...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Political leadership in NYC: Mayor Eric Adams on antisemitism

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Elected officials with executive responsibilities have difficult jobs. The Mayor of NYC has to make sure that garbage is collected, that pot...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Hamas, Gaza and American universities: more letters, and two speeches

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  First, letters from the President of the Hebrew University to his counterparts at Harvard and Stanford: “You Have Failed Us” Letters by He...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

Navigating NYC school choice: advice for families

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  Each year a new cohort of families has to navigate school choice in New York City.  The city offers lots of resources for gathering inform...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

New York State's Living Donor Support Act (LDSA, S. 1594) was signed by Governor Hochul on Dec. 29

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 Frank McCormick forwards this email: From: Elaine Perlman Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2022 5:44 PM Subject: Governor Hochul Has Signed ...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

Pay Transparency in New York City as the new law begins to take effect

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  Here's a report from Glassdoor Economic Research: A First Glimpse into the Impact of Pay Transparency in New York City  by Daniel Zhao...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

School choice consulting in New York City

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 It is a truth universally acknowledged that any stressful process in which affluent people participate must be in need of a consulting indu...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

Return to previous school assignment policies (in some respects) under New York City's new mayor

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 In NYC, the pendulum is still swinging between inclusive admissions as measured by demographics and determined by lottery, and meritocratic...
Friday, August 5, 2022

Busing for schools in Boston and NYC, by Angrist, Gray-Lobe, Idoux & Pathak

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 One of the spinoffs of the design of school choice systems in Boston, NYC and elsewhere is that it has opened up the empirical study of sch...
Friday, June 24, 2022

New York City school choice: increased use of lotteries in the news

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The recent emphasis on lotteries in NYC school choice is discussed in the NY Times: N.Y.C. Tried to Fix High School Admissions. Some Parents...
Friday, April 29, 2022

More on NYC school choice lotteries

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 Following my recent post on random numbers in the NYC school choice system(s) for high school and middle school,  Amélie Marian writes to...
Monday, April 18, 2022

NYC plugs a school choice leak (of random numbers)

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 Some time ago, Esther Duflo likened market design to plumbing . I think she had in mind construction plumbing, making sure the pipes are ...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

NYC to stop prosecuting prostitutes (but will continue to prosecute their customers)

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 NYC will stop prosecuting prostitution, but will continue to prosecute the customers of prostitutes, and pimps. The NY Times has the story:...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Selective NYC high schools aren't as hard to get into as is sometimes reported: Sam Abrams in the Columbia Journalism Review

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  In the Columbia Journalism Review, Sam Abrams explains how data from NYC's deferred acceptance algorithm for assigning students to sc...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

New York State's new surrogacy law takes effect

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NBC has the story: No Longer an Outlier: New York Ends Commercial Surrogacy Ban .  New York's longstanding ban on commercial surrogate p...