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PNS Weekend Update - May 18, 20130
Featured on our weekend update: Congress presses ahead with its probe into the targeting of conservative groups at the IRS, new research finds a link between infant stress and behavioral problems in later life; and a weekend of wilderness attention for the Great Plains.
Public News Service - New York
NEW YORK – Advocates in New York and the nation have been using social media in an effort to keep the immigration reform drive alive in Congress – and they believe it's working. The U.S. Senate spent this week marking up the immigration reform bill, and Maryann Sinclair Slutsky, execut...Read More
NEW YORK - Whether they buy "cage-free," "free range," "pasture-raised" or just "eggs," a growing number of people are concerned with where and how their food is produced. A new bill in Congress would make egg-labeling mandatory, as well as adding more humane living standards for millions of egg-lay...Read More
NEW YORK - New Yorkers with disabilities have cause for concern when it comes to possible future disasters and terrorism events, because the U.S. Justice Department says the city is in violation of federal law in failing to prepare. In a statement filed in the Southern District of New York, the Depa...Read More
ALBANY, N.Y. - Just because you have a job doesn't mean you can easily pay the rent in New York. An increasing number of renters are spending more than half their income on housing, according to a new report from the nonprofit Center for Housing Policy. Report co-author Maya Brennan, the center's s...Read More
NEW YORK – With a march, a rally and a church service, a coalition of community leaders on Thursday called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to save the financially troubled SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. Clergy and labor leaders, patient advocates, local politicians and TV commentator Rev. A...Read More
NEW YORK - When the fertility clinic and all else fails, adoption can seem like the answer - except that it's not, in too many sad cases. Adoption is an expensive and lengthy process which can take from $30,000 to $50,000 and two years or more. That's where groups such as HelpUsAdopt.org come in. I...Read More
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - Professionals offering free mental-health counseling to young victims of Hurricane Sandy say they're still dealing with children badly shaken by the "super storm." Dr. Robert Motta, director of the Child and Family Trauma Institute at Hofstra University, estimates that about 10 yo...Read More
NEW YORK CITY - Hundreds of millions of federal "Sandy" relief dollars are headed to New York and New Jersey to help fix damaged infrastructure and "flood-proof" it for future storms. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said $340 million dollars will come to New York. Nate Woiwodie, marine and coastal policy advise...Read More