"Being confronted by the media and saying, ‘I don’t know, I haven’t read the paper yet’ is an honest answer but not how I want to be perceived as mayor."

Eliana Trillo, a Venezuelan woman who was sleeping in the unsanctioned tent camp outside of a New York City migrant shelter. The migrant shelter on Randall’s Island will house some 3,000 migrants on any given night, but as the number of immigrants continues to grow, the shelter has run out of housing space. Trillo slept in the tent camp last week, during some of the most frigid nights of the year. (Associated Press — Jan. 25, 2024)

New York Mayor Eric Adams, in his State of the City address. New York City has become the first major city to designate social media as a “public health hazard.” (The Hill — Jan. 25, 2024)

Tera Hurst, the executive director of the Health Justice Recovery Alliance, regarding Oregon lawmakers’ proposal to roll back the state’s landmark drug decriminalization law. The legislation has received pushback from both sides of the issue. (OPB — Jan. 23, 2024)

B.J. Ayers, regarding Wyoming’s status at or near the top in the nation for per capita suicides. Firearms are used in roughly 75 percent of suicides in the state, as compared with just over 50 percent nationally. (NPR — Jan. 23, 2024)