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Mayor’s measles
missive: Mayor de Blasio (top) took on the measles outbreak in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community, declaring the issue a public health emergency. The mayor and city health officials ordered people living in certain zip codes to get measles, mumps and rubella shots, and said those who don’t could be hit with a $1,000 fine.
Poor performance: The city’s elite high schools again closed their door to kids from poor neighborhoods, a Daily News analysis of 2019 admissions figures showed. Students from the South Bronx and central Brooklyn are the least likely to attend the top schools, the figures show.
Life for death: Roderick Covlin (inset), convicted in March of strangling his wife on Dec. 31, 2009, was slapped with a life sentence for the killing. The couple’s two children — now 18 and 12 years old — asked for mercy for their father, to no avail. The wheels on the bus: There is actually some good news in mass transit. New traffic light technology is speeding up the trip on city buses, city and MTA officials said. Weed (tests) be gone: The City Council Public Safety Committee unanimously approved a bill to bar the city from testing people on probation for marijuana. Committee Chairman Donovan Richards (D-Queens) said the bill, approved 9 to 0, is focused on “finding reasons to get probationers out of the system.” No future in plastics: Mayor de Blasio signed an executive order banning the city from buying single-use plastics in an effort to reduce carbon emissions and waste. Instead, city agencies are to begin purchasing compostable or recyclable alternatives.
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