
Karen Frillmann
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Karen Frillmann
@kfrillmann
Executive Producer https://t.co/pXmF1lYte2 Tweets are my own, not the opinion of WNYC.


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NEW: After 5-month delay, NYC health department adopts new federal rules on childhood lead exposure gothamist.com/news/after-5-m…






Listen to @mattkatz00's story on towns opting out of cannabis to hear: 1. that George Washington did NOT grow hemp in Hempstead 2. that opponents of legal cannabis worry about the children 3. the sheer joy of someone saying "Cheeba Cheeba, Maui Wowie" wnyc.org/story/new-york…


THREAD: Today, the Department of Justice announced an investigation into the Mount Vernon Police Department, probing allegations of unlawful strip searches, fabricated evidence + brutality—issues we brought to light in an investigative series last year. gothamist.com/news/doj-annou…

NEW: Nearly 1,700 people have been locked up in NYC jails awaiting trial for more than a year. Their cases have been delayed repeatedly because of a huge court backlog—but elected officials are more focused on assigning blame than addressing the issue: gothamist.com/news/crisis-ri…



