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For a decade and a half now, motorists on the Taconic State Parkway, north of New York City, have been confronted by exit signs for a Donald J. Trump State Park. At first, the name was merely curious; unlike hotels, mixed-use towers, and deli sandwiches, state parks are rarely named for reality TV stars or blowhard real-estate developers. After the past six years, however, the name is still curious but also, for many, grotesque. Help may be on the way.
Like America, Donald J. Trump State Park is split in half: one section, totalling a hundred and fifty-four acres, is in Yorktown Heights, in Westchester County; the other, made up of two hundred and eighty-two acres, straddles the border between Westchester and Putnam Counties. Trump bought the land between 1998 and 2000, intending to build twin golf courses, but after environmental concerns scotched that plan—uh-oh, wetlands!—he donated the parcels to the state. The “understanding,” according to a letter from his attorney, countersi
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Minority Legislators: US Census Creating Great Harm with Approval to Ask Citizenship Question
Assemblymembers Crespo, Kim, Solages and others declare their opposition to inclusion of citizenship question in 2020 Census due to its negative impact on securing an accurate population count in New York and the Nation
March 27, 2018
Albany, New York – Last night, as dusk fell into darkness of night around the nation, the U.S Census Bureau announced that it would agree with a request by the US Department of Justice to include a question on citizenship status in the 2020 Census. The inclusion of this question into the decennial enumeration of all residents of the United States as required in the Constitution is seen by experts and lawmakers as undermining a complete and accurate population count, especially in states like New York with large immigrant and undocumented populations. Today, legislative leaders of the New York State Assembly and Senate issued a call for Congress to stop t