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We should not turn a blind eye to littering

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Our city is dying, under the weight of thousands of plastic bottles, fast food wrappers, and plastic bags that have been thrown carelessly around the streets. We often discuss large-scale industrial dumping, but we easily overlook another major problem, our daily habit of littering. We often turn a blind eye or refuse to acknowledge how often we neglect our communities and dump garbage wherever. I often see people casually littering on sidewalks, tossing trash out windows, even opening full doors just to throw a trash bag out! Although it may seem small, these acts of littering add up, and they all negatively affect our environment.

Letters

We should all worry about where NY is going on home care

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N.Y. What are you hiding from us with the transition to a single (FI) Fiscal Intermediary, (PPL) Public Partnership LLC, for the (CDPAP) Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program? Your lack of transparency puts this whole transition in question! 

The home care transparency act bill S9142/A10537 seeks to establish basic oversight of PPL’s failed management of the multibillion dollar CDPAP program. Replacing the existing limited reporting provision currently in place and allowing “the commissioner of health to provide the states oversight responsibilities with accuracy, regularity, and transparency.”

Thank you to those who introduced it, those that signed on and supported this bill. But sad to say that as the session ends in Albany they couldn’t even get this basic bill to the floor for a vote, to solidify transparency into this failed transition to a single FI for the CDPAP. It sits stalled in the Health Committee.