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A.S. Senate Unanimously Passes Bill To Reform Honorarium for Senators and BCUs


May 14, 2021 at 6:56 pm by Holly Rusch
The Associated Students unanimously passed a bill that raises the honorarium cap of A.S. elected and appointed officials and senators on Wednesday, to go into effect during the 2021-22 school year.
While the bill required a two-thirds majority in the Senate to pass, it was passed unanimously. Senators elected to the 2021-22 senate, as well as senators planning to work with a BCU for the 2021-22 school year, recused themselves from the vote. 
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The bill will make Associated Students (A.S.) spaces — including Boards, Commissions and Units (BCU), the 38 organizations that work within A.S. to provide and organize student events, advocacy and leadership — more accessible to low-income, first generation and marginalized students, according to the bill’s author, Senator Esme Quintero-Cubillan. ....

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Is your grocery store still using plastic bags? DEC asks consumers to file a complaint


Is your grocery store still using plastic bags? DEC asks consumers to file a complaint
Posted May 09, 2021
Some businesses have continued using plastic bags after the law went into effect in October. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently released an online form to report businesses that are not adhering to the plastic bag ban.
The plastic bag ban went into effect in New York City in March 2020, but enforcement did not begin in October 2020 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The ban requires all entities that collect New York State sales tax to adopt a five-cent paper carry-out bag reduction fee and refrain from using carry-out plastic bags. ....

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New York's Plastic Bag Ban Yields No Fines For Grocers Six Months In


May 6, 2021
The state s ban on single-use plastic shopping bags has been a mixed bag, with some groceries ignoring the new regulations and the state issuing zero fines so far.
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Some supporters of the law, launched just over six months ago, maintain it will take time to gain a hold due to ongoing stresses over the pandemic.
But others are furious that some bodegas and at least one local grocery chain appears to be flouting the new regulations barring single-use plastic bags.
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This is absurd, said environmental activist Judith Weis, adding she s repeatedly complained to state officials about the Gristedes grocery on the Upper West Side. ....

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