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Queens Pol: Give Victims More Time to Challenge Abusers
The recent focus on the problem of childhood sexual abuse in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community may help spur a Queens legislator’s attempt to make it easier to prosecute or sue alleged sex offenders. But her bill is getting push back from religious lea from WNYC | New York Public Radio Read more »
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Rage Against The ‘Machine’
Tony Nunziato (standing at right), treasurer of the Juniper Park Civic Association (JPCA), blasted the gerrymandering of legislative districts—including the 30th Assembly District represented by Margaret Markey—during the JPCA’s Mar. 8 meeting in Middle from Times Newsweekly Read more »
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Say Assembly Bill Cruel To Animals
As I type this letter, there are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of lost, disoriented, and traumatized pets being admitted into municipal animal shelters. And if Assemblywoman Margaret Markey has her way, all of them can be killed on admittance if two people d from Times Newsweekly Read more »
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More Liberal Cuomo On Tap?
After meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo for about an hour, Cardinal Timothy Dolan and his fellow bishops held a brief press conference to review their closed-door chat, while the governor himself remains behind closed doors. Dolan was his usual voluble and from Capital Tonight Read more »
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Markey brings sex abuse bill back to Albany
For the sixth year in a row, Maspeth Assemblywoman Margaret Markey is pushing the state Legislature to pass a bill that would extend the statute of limitations for victims of sex abuse to file claims against their attackers. Markey's Child Victims Act ad from Brooklyn Downtown Star Read more »
