Weather...

Climate change may be real... May be. Just a thought.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered a lashing message to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo  from a camera-packed subway car in Brooklyn: You fix this. And don’t ask the city for any more money

The blunt words, delivered by a sweaty mayor in a train that ran smoothly for the four stops he traveled, was the most public attempt yet by Mr. de Blasio to show that he understands the problems faced by New Yorkers coping with a transit system plagued with delays.

The chairman of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Joseph J. Lhota, countered soon after. “What we need is leadership, not photo ops,” Mr. Lhota said in a statement. “The mayor’s comments today were completely disingenuous, knowing that the M.T.A. is set to present its 30-day overhaul plan this week.”

Change...

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis suggested that New York City could help the state-run subways by diverting rainy-day money the de Blasio administration has stocked away.

Malliotakis, who said she would accede to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s demand for half of an $800 million interim repair plan, criticized incumbent Bill de Blasio for failing to contribute enough to the ailing subway system.

Criticizing de Blasio for increasing spending every year since taking office in 2014, however, the subway deteriorates on a daily bases.

Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow at the right-leaning Manhattan Institute, said the city has about $2 billion in reserves.

Two Million New Yorkers are inconvenient on a daily basis, spending more time in the subway system than being at home with their families. Time for a change.

Drills...

China and Russia began naval drills near North Korea amid continuing tensions over the isolated state's nuclear ambitions and ahead of a United Nations General Assembly meeting this week, where North Korea is likely to loom large.

The drills are the second part of China-Russian naval exercises this year, the first part of which took place in the Baltic in July. The report did not directly link the drills to current tensions over North Korea.

Both China and Russia have repeatedly called for a peaceful solution and talks to resolve the issue.
China has urged the United States to refrain from making threats to North Korea.

We need both countries to be on our side.

Pitch...

Everyone is doing something to repair the damage.  Just a thought.

Beer...

Happy to get the utilities back.

Behavior...

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Harry Morel, a former district attorney from south Louisiana who frequently used his position to offer vulnerable women clemency in return for sexual favors, pleaded guilty to obstructing a federal investigation of sexual abuse allegations. The 73-year-old faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison.

Investigators have linked the former St. Charles Parish District Attorney to 20 women during his 33-year tenure. Morel had offered to help the women with their cases or cases of relatives.

Danielle Keim agreed to wear a wire for the FBI and record her conversations with Morel. During a surveillance operation, the FBI captured on tape Morel bringing two bottles of wine to her apartment where he engaged in “inappropriate behavior.”

Possibilities...

Allegations about the Monroe County coroner's office were laid out in recent court filings: Sex between a deputy coroner and a police officer at a death scene; stealing prescription drugs and other items from the deceased; an extramarital affair in the woods, during working hours; and showing co-workers cellphone photos of a lover's male genitalia.

The federal case filed by former deputy coroner Lauren Fizz.  The complaint alleges Traci Allen created a sexually hostile work environment by telling co-workers about her marital problems and her own infidelity, showing them obscene photos of one of her lovers, bragging about a "friends with benefits" relationship with someone she met on social media and talking "about leaving work early for a liaison in the woods."

Fizz's lawsuit said Traci Allen and an unnamed co-worker, described as "her deputy coroner paramour," concocted a false story that Fizz "had had a sexual encounter with a police officer at a death scene in April 2016."

The other lawsuit, by chief deputy coroner Michael Sak, said he turned down sexual overtures that Traci Allen made toward him in early 2016 and again this July.

Monroe County Coroner Bob Allen, a Republican who has held the job for 25 years, insists the descriptions of an office spinning out of control are false allegations.

Trial...

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More than 700 people in 20 states were diagnosed with fungal meningitis and other infections after receiving contaminated medication in 2012.

Glenn Chin, the supervisory pharmacist at the now-closed New England Compounding Center in Framingham is to go on trial for his role in the 2012.
Chin ran the clean rooms where steroid injections were made.

Prosecutors say the pharmacy used expired ingredients, neglected to properly disinfect the clean rooms and failed to act when mold and bacteria was detected. After the outbreak, regulators found standing water, mold and bacteria in the air and on workers’ gloved fingertips.

The Keys...

As the devastated Florida Keys began reopening to residents who fled Hurricane Irma, officials warned the returning islanders to bring enough supplies to sustain them for a while, because no one yet knows when water and power will be fully restored.

"The Keys are not what you left several days ago when you evacuated. Electricity, sewer and water are intermittent at best,"  Mayor George Neugent.

Getting Key West residents and businesses owners to the southernmost point remained a challenge as authorities work to keep out tourists, gawkers, looters and others who could hamper recovery efforts.

Nearly two dozen checkpoints in the hardest hit areas will be heavily staffed with law-enforcement officers to check IDs to ensure only authorized residents and relief workers get through.

To rebuild....