Local Voices

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Op-Ed: Start getting tested regularly at 45 and decrease your risk by minimizing alcohol consumption, ceasing tobacco use, and maintaining a healthy BMI.

Op-Ed: At the end of the day, deed theft is a consumer protection and a property rights issue. Everyone has a role, including homeowners, law enforcement, county officials, lawmakers and real estate professionals.

Op-Ed: We need to invest more in college visits, career-connected learning, mentorship and partnerships between schools and local industries to better support our young people.

Op-Ed: Young people affected by violence, poverty, and the legal system are too often treated as problems to be managed. What would New York look like if the people who live with the consequences of our safety policies helped write them?

An ode to growing up in New York City.

In a letter to the editor, fifth-grade students at P.S. 147 in Bushwick urge New Yorkers to support organizations that help people experiencing homelessness find housing.

Op-Ed: Doctors need to intervene earlier, when the brain is still developing, when the patterns are still forming and when a young person's future is still genuinely open.

Op-Ed: Is National Grid’s request for a freeze meant to provide genuine relief, or is it merely a temporary pause before large increases are levied later?