Thank you for giving this week’s edition of the Albany Update a listen.
In this week’s episode, we look at a Staten Island judge who is putting a stop to a NYC effort to house asylum-seeking migrants from being housed in a closed Catholic School. Then, New York is poised to expand marijuana operations exponentially, while NYC’s Department of Health is proposing new guidelines for supervised injection sites for those choosing to use harder drugs. After that, it’s good news out of Missouri where some hospitals, following a change in the law, are ending “gender-affirming” mutilating surgeries on minors. Finally, we note that second Republican Presidential Primary Debate.
Let’s get started.
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