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Dickens: Bail System Needs to be Reformed
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City College of NY Students Visit Assembly
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Real Property
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caption: 'January 30, 2017<br />"Something needs to be done in order to help because, in the City, we're losing out," said Assemblywoman Inez E. Dickens to Teri Ross, President of the NYS Assessors' Association, at an Assembly public hearing on Real Property Tax Relief Credit Programs.<br />Â ',
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Ensuring Eligible New Yorkers Receive Tax Credits
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Welcome to the Assembly
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caption: 'January 9, 2017<br />"I am grateful that I have been allowed to serve in this House, the People's House, coming from the New York City Council, the City House to the State House. I am now the third generation to be allowed to serve in this august body. … My uncle served in this body in 1948, and my father, his brother served again in 1965 through '69. And now I have been allowed in 2017 to join all of you who honorably represent the citizens, the residents of this great state of New York, and I thank you all," said Assemblymember Inez E. Dickens, introducing her family to the Assembly Chamber.<br /> ',
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Introduction of Family Members