Elena Mora
LATEST ARTICLES BY Elena Mora
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Opinion
Union baiting equals hating
June 9, 2010A couple of months ago, I heard Joel Klein, head of New York's Department of Education, blame the teachers' union contract for the fact that there are a lot of Jewish holidays on the school calendar
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Opinion
We gotta have park
May 28, 2010What's happening to my neighborhood Bronx park is just a tiny part of the catastrophe that's in the works when it comes to the public places where working-class people relax, play and enjoy nature.
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Opinion
Save public libraries
May 19, 2010Full disclosure: I LOVE books. I love the way they look stacked on shelves and scattered on my bedside table.
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U.S.
Health reform law still a big deal
May 12, 2010A package arrived for me yesterday - something I ordered a while ago and then forgot about - my "Health Reform is a BFD" t-shirt! (Remember that: Joe Biden's muttered comment about just exactly how big...
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U.S.
Bronx tenants file lawsuit over foreclosure, hold banks responsible
April 28, 2010In New York City there's another face to foreclosure crisis: that of tenants living in buildings that were sold a few years ago, but whose new owners have declared bankruptcy.
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Opinion
Novels, memory and the Holocaust
April 23, 2010Holocaust Remembrance Day just passed, and it got me thinking about memory and empathy.
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U.S.
Three grim tales from the Big Apple
April 13, 2010Ranked third or fourth richest city in the world, will New York tell its young generation that it cannot provide shelter, or classrooms, or even transportation to school?
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U.S.
Rallying for more schools, it’s a Bronx cheer for Bloomberg
April 7, 2010Bronx residents send a message to Bloomberg and the Department of Education: More schools!
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