🌱 COVID Protocols Protest+Queens Pricey Home Hunt • Daily Digest

Good morning, Queens! It's Friday, Oct. 15. Cardozo High School basketball coach Ron Naclerio is speaking out against the city's safety measures to safeguard against COVID-19 transmission at sporting events. Those guidelines put his students at a disadvantage for future scholarships, he said. See the details below.

Today's weather: As you like it: periods of clouds and sun. High: 76 Low: 66.

Here are the top stories in Queens today:

1. Are the city's COVID-19 precautions for in-person student sports jeopardizing scholarships? Cardazo High coach Ron Naclerio thinks so. (Patch.com)
2. Okay, you've got a million bucks in your pocket, and you're in the market for a three-bedroom home in Forest Hills with amenities. How far will you get? (Patch.com)
3. An Affordable Housing Lottery has launched for The Kira high-rise on Jamaica Avenue. (New York YIMBY)
4. See how a Queens elementary school begins each morning with its own student-hosted newscast called "Bee TV." (CBS New York)
5. At the White House, Queens climate activists are protesting the proposed Astoria power plant. (QNS.com)

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About me: Kevin Phinney has lived and worked as a writer and editor in Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Seattle and New York City. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in El Paso. Phinney attended college in Austin. He has done television work as a reporter and commentator, and is a former host of a weekday drive-time radio show called "Kevin & Kevin in the Morning" on KGSR-FM (now known as Austin City Limits Radio). He is also the author of "Souled American, " a book tracking race relations in America through music. It was published by BILLBOARD Books, and is often used in college classrooms across the country.

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