A bill that would give Brooklyn residents who regularly cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge a discount similar to Staten Islanders has passed the state Senate, according to the Brooklyn Paper.
The measure would give Brooklynites who cross the span 10 or more times a month using E-ZPass a discounted toll of $5.50 — the same price borough residents pay under the Staten Island Resident Rebate Program.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-Bay Ridge), passed Thursday by a 55-2 margin, the report said.
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Noa Pothoven, 17, has been legally euthanised in the Netherlands, saying the pain she was dealing with after a childhood abuse was “insufferable”.
Noa wrote an autobiography called Winning or Learning, which details her battles with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anorexia after being molested and raped as a young child.
Children as young as 12 can opt for euthanasia in the Netherlands but only after a doctor determines that the patient’s pain is unbearable.
Euthanasia is also legal in some US states, Canada and Belgium.
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Since 2014, the Palestinian Authority’s Finance Ministry has published an annual anticipated budget in the first part of the year, as well as monthly reports of actual expenditures in each budget category. According to Israeli NGO Palestinian Media Watch, as of April 2019 the P.A. Finance Ministry no longer displays this information on its website.
The ministry’s previous financial transparency—which is a basic requirement for most donor countries to the P.A.—has been replaced by a notice stating: “Due to the contingency law and legal dependencies with the Israeli side, the financial reports have been temporarily suspended.”

Israel’s National Infrastructure Committee approved on Monday the controversial plans to build a $55 million cable car system to transport visitors in and out of Yerushalayim’s Old City.
Advanced by the Tourism Ministry and Jerusalem Development Authority, the 1.5 km long cable car route will help relieve traffic congestion and increase accessibility to the area of the Holy Basin, which includes Jerusalem’s Old City. The route would stretch from Yerushalayim’s First Station complex to Mount Zion, and then down to the Old City’s Dung Gate, near the entrance to the Kosel Plaza and Ir David archaeological park.
If approved, the cable car will be able to carry 3,000 passengers per hour in each direction, utilizing 73 carriages.

Concerned individuals have an important message to all those planning on attending the anti-vaxxer event at Ateres Chynka in Flatbush tonight:
DRESS NICELY.
A team of 4 photographers has been hired and will be photographing every individual attending this event, and will be publishing every image on social media. Our community deserves to know which parents are not vaccinating so we can properly protect our families.
Please dress nicely, and smile for the cameras on your way into the event.