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February 16, 2025
In the latest sign that something is seriously amiss in the lives of adolescent girls, we now have figures on drug use in 2023 from the Substance Abuse and Mental…
February 15, 2025
he audience of 35 teenagers shuffling into a classroom at Twin Oaks High school on a Thursday morning does not look friendly. Heads down and dark sweatshirt hoods up, there…
February 2, 2025
Does “making America healthy again” mean the federal legalization of marijuana? Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose hearings to be confirmed as the next secretary of Health and Human Services took…
January 23, 2025
When Rob Henderson was growing up, he scored only 86 out of a possible 140 points on a verbal IQ test. His teachers thought he might have some kind of…
January 8, 2025
Two months ago, Wendell James Snell, age 42, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for the sexual abuse of three children under the age of 12 on the…
January 6, 2025
“The hope and intention is that we’re creating some equity around how we’re supporting family members caring for children that are in foster care.” That’s how Rebecca Jones Gaston, commissioner for…
January 5, 2025
In February 2021, residents of Racine learned that 17-year-old Shavale J. Powell was facing homicide charges in the death of his 1-month-old son. The child suffered blunt force trauma to the head, chest…
December 19, 2024
In October, Nyisha Ragsdale, the maternal aunt of four-year-old Jahmeik Modlin, filed a lawsuit against the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), claiming that the city could have saved her…
December 14, 2024
Between 2020 and 2023, there were 2,154 cases of substantiated abuse and/or neglect of foster children in New York City. When New Yorkers read that statistic — taken from a recent…
December 11, 2024
Who are the victims when it comes to “deaths of despair”? Recent research has focused on the racial makeup of these tragedies — drug overdoses, alcohol-related deaths and suicides. According…