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Personnel changes abound in Albany as one governor leaves and another arrives, while city and nonprofit agencies also make moves.
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By Matt Schwarzfeld >
Public and private providers are busy planning for the much older population ahead in a few decades.
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Story and Photos by Alice Proujansky >
 Slideshow: Life At the BEST Center
Day care workers and their representatives say: Here's a way to address problems with no threat to day care centers or the families who use them.
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By Tram Whitehurst >
From beyond the DOE, advocates offer ideas about how to get more students to graduation.
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By Helen Zelon >
Recommendations on how to prevent a similar shooting flow from within and without the police department.
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By Curtis Stephen >
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CITY CONVERSATIONS
Debating How To Police
A Challenging Population
Several mentally ill residents recently have been killed in interactions with the NYPD. A panel of experts says the city can act to avoid these tragedies.
Counting Street Homeless:
Volunteer Night Is Flawed
A participant in January's annual one-night count of the unsheltered homeless says it misleads both volunteers and those they're trying to help.
Counting Street Homeless:
'Hope' Is The Gold Standard
The designer of the city's counting method says the approach is sound, and delivers essential information and assistance.
'This Is New York City':
Mayor Draws A Reaction
From labor, urban planning, immigrant advocacy and more, leaders give Bloomberg praise and pans for his State of the City speech.
Child Welfare In the Press:
Painful Wounds Reopened
The former head of one of the minority-led foster care agencies recently discussed in three New York Times articles sees omissions and bias in the series.
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IN THE NEWS
NY Assembly OKs Foreclosure Moratorium
The bill would give borrowers of subprime loans facing foreclosure up to a year to catch up on payments.
Crain's New York Business
The High Cost of Leasing Schools: The Loophole in the Public Authorities Law
This report critiques the lack of public notice and approval for leased public school sites, which are sometimes polluted.
Office of the New York City Public Advocate
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AROUND THE WEB
Mapping the Innovation in Correctional Health Care Service Delivery in New York City
This detailed survey looks at the health needs of inmates and those leaving prison, evaluating to what extent services available in their home neighborhoods will be able to help.
Bike Month NYC
Spring is in the air, falling petals are in your hair, and turning pedals are under your feet.
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CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE
Affordable Housing Gaps in High Cost Urban Areas
This new white paper keeps current the insights from a June conference of high-level city, state and private sector housing leaders.
Q&A With Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor of CUNY
Goldstein reflects on how different CUNY's needs are today than when he graduated in 1963, and the investments needed to make CUNY a top-tier university.
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