April 2021 Archives

Safe Overnight Parking

New Beginnings' Safe Parking Shelter and Rapid Rehousing Program provides safe overnight parking to individuals and families living in their vehicle. A driver's license, vehicle registration, and vehicle insurance is required to enroll in the shelter component of the program. In addition, we also offer rapid rehousing services and other housing assistance services to community members through the program. We have operated the Safe Parking Program® since 2004 in cooperation with numerous local churches, governmental and non-profit agencies, and businesses. Our program is the first of its kind and has served as a model for dozens of communities throughout the country.

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Apple's Mail is a free, native email application that ships with every Mac, making it a solid default choice for most users, especially those using iCloud. However, the Mail app is one of the least innovative Apple-made macOS apps and without a major change in quite some time.

But you can find many alternatives for Apple's Mail. Many of those can help you become more productive and safer on the Web. Here are five amazing suggestions for you!

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In 1996, from his perch in Pittsburgh, Hibbitts launched a website that became JURIST, a legal news service powered by law student volunteers. Today, it boasts 80 student reporters and editors hailing from 29 law schools on five continents supervised by a tiny, professional staff Hibbitts leads when he's not teaching. 

In Myanmar, where law is an undergraduate subject, JURIST's correspondents are 18 to 21 years old. All are women because an overwhelming percentage of Myanmar law students are female. To say they've been courageous isn't a muscular enough word to describe their work; putting their lives at risk to report on what's occurring in a ravaged state on the brink of civil war.

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Anxiety over returning to the office is very real. Blind, an anonymous community of verified professionals with 4 million+ users, began running a survey gauging if professionals were anxious about returning to the office and why. 65% of professionals on Blind are anxious about the office reopening, according to results.

Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein has been working from Dubai and Israel for the last three months while he participates in a program to improve cultural understanding of people with disabilities.

Bernstein, who is blind, said he is working full time as a justice, connecting remotely to arguments, while working with a program that is part of the Abraham Accords, signed byIsrael, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

The Detroit Free Press, MLive.com and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency have coverage.

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The problem with pretext traffic stops is that when police use their discretion to decide who to pull over, they disproportionately pull over Black drivers more than white drivers, particularly within predominantly Black communities. As a result, Black drivers are searched 1.5 to 2 times as often as white drivers. The practice of pretext traffic stops allows police to surveil communities of color, over-patrol them, and pull people over. 

These stops lead to frequent negative encounters between members of the Black community and the police that can result in violence, trauma, and even death. For example, a Washington Post article from 2015 reported that as a result of traffic stops, in one year, 100 people were killed by the police across the US. Of these people, 1 in 3 were Black. While white, Black, and Latino people had the same rate of being killed in these stops, Black drivers had a much higher rate of being pulled over. These regular interactions of being pulled over by the police lead to the terms "driving while Black," and "the talk" that many Black families have with their children about what to do when pulled over by the police.

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June 24, 2020 (UPI) -- A four-year analysis released Wednesday shows that black Americans were, on average, more than three times as likely as white people to be killed during a police encounter.

The study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health examined 5,494 police-related deaths in the United States between 2013 and 2017 and found disparities across the two racial groups in all metropolitan statistical areas that provided race/ethnicity data.

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The book is published by the European Journalism Centre and supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies.

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An attorney who handles funds for some of New York's biggest multifamily landlords seems to have disappeared, leaving his clients worried that millions of dollars placed in escrow accounts have as well, sources with knowledge of the scandal told The Real Deal.

Mitchell Kossoff, managing partner of Kossoff PLLC, has been unreachable for several days by his partners at the downtown Manhattan law firm and the landlords for whom he holds millions of dollars in escrow accounts, according to clients who have attempted to contact the firm.

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On both the criminal and civil litigation fronts, former President Donald Trump faces a bevy of lawsuits and investigations, with more cases likely to follow. Some are civil suits stemming from his pre-presidential business dealings. Others are defamation claims from women he allegedly assaulted. More still are criminal probes and civil actions that scrutinize his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The Chart below tracks all these cases. It will be continually updated as major legal developments occur.

Get Back to Your Favorite Businesses and Venues with Digital Proof of Your COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative Test Results

Attend sporting events, arts performances and more! Excelsior Pass supports a safe reopening of New York by providing a free, fast and secure way to present digital proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative test results. Think of it as a mobile airline boarding pass, but for proving you received a COVID-19 vaccination or negative test.

You can store your Pass digitally on your smartphone with the Excelsior Pass Wallet app, available for free from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. You can also print your Pass from the Excelsior Pass website and bring it with you.

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On March 31, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill passed by the legislature to legalize recreational marijuana in New York state. During this program, a panel of Legislators and Public Officials will discuss the recently enacted Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) that legalizes for adult-use cannabis.