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They need more room at the inn. New York City’s use of hotels as emergency shelters to house migrants will continue for the foreseeable future, The Post has learned, as the Department of Homeless Services is seeking a contract with hotels to provide a total of 14,000 rooms to shelter migrants at least through next year. The city projects that spending on housing for migrants over the past two years and this fiscal year combined will surpass a staggering $2.3 billion — much of it on rent paid to hotels in the Big Apple. About 150 hotels are currently sheltering...

Illegal border crossers in New York City continue to be afforded thousands of dollars monthly in free rent for apartments and hotel rooms as Big Apple citizens are forced to pay thousands a month for tiny apartments. The New York Times, for instance, published a lengthy article on Feb. 25 celebrating the “resettlement” of 170 migrant families who have been moved from city-paid hotel rooms to suburban Central Islip and other areas where they are being given upwards to $2,500 a month in free rent. One illegal from Venezuela, who moved from a Manhattan hotel — where she and her...

Hotel-room surfaces can harbor viruses Nathan Seppa From San Francisco, at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Rhinovirus, which is responsible for roughly half of all common colds, survives on surfaces in hotel rooms for hours and can be transferred from there to people, a study shows. J. Owen Hendley, a pediatrician at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, and his colleagues obtained mucus samples from 15 people who had active rhinovirus infections. The scientists then invited each participant to spend a night in a hotel room. Each person was instructed to remain awake in...

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 17, 2006 -- Wounded warriors at Brooke Army Medical Center here now have a place to call home during their recovery thanks to a generous influx of money from global war on terrorism funds. Army Sgt. Ernesto Godoy, an amputee adjusting to a prosthesis, lowers a shower seat in a “mobility impaired accessible” room at the barracks near Brooke Army Medical Center. Godoy occupies one of the 24 rooms that have been renovated to accommodate wounded warriors. Photo by Elaine Wilson   '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. With more than $600,000 in hand,...

WASHINGTON - A new study on emergency rooms disputes the common wisdom that the poor and uninsured are filling them up. In fact, more than 80 percent of patients seen in emergency rooms have health insurance and a usual source of health care such as a primary care physician, doctors reported on Tuesday. "Contrary to popular perception, individuals who do not have a usual source of care are actually less likely to have visited an emergency department than those who have such care," said Dr. Ellen Weber, an professor in the division of emergency medicine at the University of California...

Happy (campaign) trails! As if John Kerry didn’t already have enough campaign trail troubles... now he and the missus were caught having a shouting match, which ended in separate hotel rooms for the night. Here’s an excerpt from DRUDGE :"Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry and his wife got into a heated argument after a campaign rally in Arizona Sunday night -- a heated argument so hot they spent the night in different rooms! A well-placed law enforcement source tells DRUDGE how Kerry and Teresa Heinz moved to separate suites at Flagstaff's Little America Hotel." Yeah, yeah... but did she...

Behind the Scenes In Democrat War Rooms August 8, 2003 12:08 PM EST BEGIN TRANSCRIPT All right, folks. As you know, it's Open Line Friday, which means that you get to go beyond the boundaries I normally set Monday through Thursday. Those boundaries are generally defined as the things that I am interested in and like - and if there are things out there that we haven't discussed during the week that you want to bring up today, feel free to do it. That's what Open Line Friday is. The situation in California continues to effervesce, and... You see the...