City Lit: Race to the Bottom
Margaret Groarke |
A book review of The Campaign: Rudy Giuliani, Ruth Messinger, Al Sharpton and the Race to be Mayor of New York City, by Evan J. Mandery. Westview Press, $27.
Staten Island
Insanity Pleas
Wendy Davis |
Kendra’s Law was supposed to make sure the mentally ill got help. In the hidden world of mental hygiene courts, that’s just what the doctor ordered.
Obesity
A Picture of Healt
Maura McDermott |
Staffed by volunteer doctors and medical students, a free clinic treats the Bronx’s uninsured, running on idealism and a determination to show it can be done.
Staten Island
Prescription For Pain
Annia Ciezadlo |
Medicaid managed care promised savings with dignity. Instead, it’s fraught with pitfalls for the poor, who find it’s up to them to hunt down health care.
Hillary Clinton
The Young and the Leftist
Kathleen McGowan |
The civil rights generation no longer has the franchise on social activism. Having come of age in Reagan’s material world, a crop of young activists pursue change with a combination of tough pragmatism and idealistic fervor.
Brooklyn
Does it Give a BAM?
Robert Neuwirt |
The Brooklyn Academy of Music wants to turn its surroundings into an artistic mecca. Yet Fort Greene already is a cultural capital–one with many ideas of what that means.
Government
Una’s Major Battle
James Bradley |
Brooklyn’s tightly controlled Democratic machine could blow a gasket as Councilwoman Una Clarke prepares to oust her former mentor and guide, powerhouse congressman Major Owens.
Mystery in Spanish Harlem
Matt Pacenza |
Tenants succeed in booting a bad landlord, only to find themselves ordered to leave, too.
Make The Road
Guest Privileges
Laura Ciechanowski |
A lawsuit challenges welfare offices’ ban on bringing a friend.
