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The sanitation department has spent nearly seven years working to implement reforms to rein in the city's notoriously dangerous private waste haulers.
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A state proposal would put a 25-foot buffer zone around houses of worship.
A state proposal would put a 25-foot buffer zone around houses of worship.
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