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Marijuana plants for the adult recreational market are are seen in a greenhouse at Hepworth Farms in Milton, N.Y., July 15, 2022. New York has issued the first 36 cannabis dispensary licenses on Monday, Nov. 21, 2022 taking a monumental step in establishing a legal — and lucrative — marketplace for recreational marijuana. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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New York issues first licenses for legal pot dispensaries
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN - Associated Press
Mon,11/21/22-11:43AM , 324 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — New York issued its first 36 cannabis dispensary licenses on Monday, taking a monumental step in establishing a legal — and lucrative — marketplace for recreational marijuana.
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Dexter Davis, a neighborhood resident, walks the street between two abandoned residential lots 10 years after the area was severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, in the Edgemere neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York. There are no skateparks in Edgemere. No coffee shops. In fact, said Davis, a former NYC police officer, laments that there are few places for young people to go. "The things that they pump into the other communities around us are more positive (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Superstorm Sandy legacy: Recovery far from equal on NY shore
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN - Associated Press
Tue,10/25/22-11:05PM , 198 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Even before Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters surged over New York City’s Rockaway Peninsula, there was an air of decay in Edgemere, a far-flung seaside neighborhood long pockmarked with boarded-up homes and vacant lots with waist-high weeds.
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Ashley Galassi, a bartender at Tina’s, a watering hole at Fisherman’s Wharf in Fort Myers, Florida, attends to a patron on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. She says the bar will likely be demolished and reopen elsewhere. Hurricane Ian might have come and gone, but it has done long-term damage to the small businesses of a region heavily dependent on tourists and seasonal residents. (AP Photo/Bobby Caina Calvan)

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Rough times ahead: Hurricane Ian batters SW Florida economy
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Wed,10/12/22-10:49AM , 213 Reads
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Ian has come and gone but it still could deliver prolonged blows to the local economy, walloping small businesses heavily dependent on tourists and seasonal residents.
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Bobby Calvan poses in front of a painting of the view from his childhood home in Waimanalo, Hawaii, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, in New York. His journey out of the closet has taken decades. Now 57, he is still sharing his truth about his sexuality. The journey hasn’t ended; indeed, it’s just beginning as he now lives his life as the man he believes he was meant to be. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

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A personal reckoning, and the truth comes out of the closet
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN - Associated Press
Sun,10/09/22-11:07PM , 340 Reads
I crouched onto the damp grass and picked at the weeds sprouting around my dad’s headstone. I struggled for the words — and the courage — to tell him what I couldn’t in his living years. I had flown thousands of miles to Sacramento to visit my dead father and reveal the secret I have held close for most of my 57 years.
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