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Moving Sex Offenders Into Group Homes With Disabled 'Unacceptable,' GOP Candidate Molinaro Says Moving Sex Offenders Into Group Homes With Disabled 'Unacceptable,' GOP Candidate Molinaro Says
Moving Sex Offenders Into Group Homes With Disabled 'Unacceptable,' GOP Candidate Molinaro Says Click here for Daily Voice's earlier report: NY Illegally Moving Sex Offenders Into Group Homes With Disabled, Report Says Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, the Republican candidate for governor, is calling on state officials to stop housing registered sex offenders in group homes with developmentally disabled individuals. Reports released this week found that as many as 25 sexual offenders have been moved within group homes and facilities run by the New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD), mostly connected to the Jonathan Carey Foundation. During a …

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by Zak Failla
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Yorktown HS Grad Ocasio-Cortez Bans Press From Town Hall Forum Yorktown HS Grad Ocasio-Cortez Bans Press From Town Hall Forum
Yorktown HS Grad Ocasio-Cortez Bans Press From Town Hall Forum Does the young Democratic Socialist upstart, upsetter from Westchester and the Bronx support a Free Press, or not?  The 28-year-old Congressional candidate banned the news media from a Town Hall meeting after news reporters "mobbed her" during an earlier New York event, according to this report in the Queens Chronicle.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Monday, Aug. 13 that stops on her listening tour throughout the district, like the one held a day earlier in Corona, are “intended for lively, compassionate discourse with a diversity of viewpoints.” The Democratic candidate and…

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by Jon Craig