Fewer Prisoners, Fewer Prisons?
March 17, 2010 12:00 AM
Upstate prisons with full staffs but few inmates offer a tempting target for budget cutters. For years, political muscle has kept the jails open. Will the fiscal crunch change that?...
Lawmakers Seek to Crack Down on Illegal Hotels
March 16, 2010 12:00 AM
Upper West Side apartment buildings lure budget-minded travelers from around the world. The visitors boost landlord profits, but many low-income tenants feel threatened....
Day Care Dumped
March 15, 2010 12:00 AM
To close a gaping budget hole, the Bloomberg administration is proposing to shutter 16 day care centers, many in gentrified areas. But the centers aren't going without a fight....
What the Mayor's Management Report Does Not Say
March 15, 2010 12:00 AM
The recent Mayor's Management Report has lots of numbers and good news, but little to say about many key issues. Glenn Pasanen looks at what the administration left out....
Monserrate Fights for His Old Job -- and 'Traditional Values'
March 12, 2010 12:00 AM
To win back his old job, the former state senator, expelled from office after a domestic violence dispute, is campaigning as a defender of family values....
State Budget Puts Spinal Cord Injury Research in Jeopardy
March 11, 2010 10:30 AM
Advocates say the state's plan to eliminate a program on spinal cord injury started by a police officer shot on duty will threaten efforts to help victims lead independent lives....
State Budget Puts Spinal Cord Injury Research in Jeopordy
March 11, 2010 12:00 AM
Advocates say the state's plan to eliminate a program on spinal cord injury started by a police officer shot on duty will threaten efforts to help victims lead independent lives....
Doubts Grow About City's Capital Spending
March 10, 2010 12:30 AM
The capital budget has almost doubled during Bloomberg's tenure. Budget experts now wonder whether that was such a smart investment....
March 10, 2010 12:16 AM
The capital budget has almost doubled in size during Bloomberg's tenure. Budget experts now wonder whether that was such a smart investment....
Debt up to Here
March 10, 2010 12:00 AM
The capital budget has almost doubled in size during Bloomberg's tenure. Advocates now wonder whether that was such a smart investment....
Labor Dispute Silences Spanish at E-ZPass Center
March 9, 2010 12:00 AM
Some politicians want the government to intervene in a heated labor dispute at a privately run E-ZPass center that has cost 14 workers their jobs and cut off service in Spanish....
Bloomberg Moves to Change the City Charter &mdash But How?
March 8, 2010 10:30 AM
In naming a commission to revise the City Charter, the mayor put everything on the table. That means term limits, but what else? Douglas Muzzio looks at charter change past and present....
Charter Commissions Since 1989
March 8, 2010 12:00 AM
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Bloomberg Moves to Change the City Charter -- But How?
March 8, 2010 12:00 AM
In naming a commission to revise the City Charter, the mayor put everything on the table. That means term limits, but what else? Douglas Muzzio looks at charter change past and present....
How to Fix New York's State Police
March 5, 2010 12:00 AM
First, Troopergate. And now, the scandal of Gov. Paterson and his top aide has again put the state police at the center of controversy. Can New York separate its police from politics?...
Council Increases Penalty for Dumping
March 4, 2010 12:01 AM
The City Council approved bills to improve New York's environment, including one increasing penalties for dumping in the waterways and another encouraging green technology....
New Voting Machines Are on the Way -- Probably
March 3, 2010 12:00 AM
New York's clunky lever voter machines should fade into history before September's primary -- unless a federal probe and a lawsuit stymie the switch to a new technology....
Data on Bullying Remains Scant, as City Touts Its Efforts
March 2, 2010 12:00 AM
A new programs aims to teach students to stop harassing and begin respecting one another. The administration hails its success, but some experts have their doubts....
Brooklyn Community Splits Sharply Over Proposed Mosque
March 1, 2010 12:00 AM
In the late 1980s, Mayor Ed Koch chanted in Arabic, hailing the building of a mosque in Manhattan. A controversy in Sheepshead Bay reveals how much has changed since then....
Now Out of Race, Can Paterson Hold On and Govern?
March 1, 2010 12:00 AM
David Paterson has pledged to stay in office until January, but many worry the state cannot afford to have a lame-duck, scandal-tainted, never-elected governor during a fiscal crisis....
