Extra Extra: Nurses are heroes, not sexy Halloween characters - Gothamist

It's Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where they're about to shut down a bunch of streets for the Village Halloween Parade.

Here’s what else is happening:

• "We’re really preparing for a strike in a way that this workforce hasn’t prepared in a while": NYC's 20,000-member janitors union is gearing up for a tense contract negotiation.
• Tensions between people posting "KIDNAPPED" Israeli hostage signs and those taking them down have been escalating.
• There's a new ferry service running between South Amboy, New Jersey, and Lower Manhattan.
• NJ.com reports that New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy is expected to file paperwork to explore a potential U.S. Senate campaign.
• For $259, you can scoop out some of your poop and mail it to Viome, a "gut health" testing company that more than a dozen microbiome scientists have accused of using pseudoscience.
• Nurses in Spain want people to stop wearing sexy nurse Halloween costumes because they perpetuate negative stereotypes about the profession.
• Now that Halloween is halfway over, it's time to buy some Christmas candy.
• And finally, solid back sleeper:

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