Government
AUDIT: BAD OVERSIGHT AND MONEY WOES PLAGUE MITCHELL-LAMA
Alex Ulam |
Generally considered a public-housing success story, the low and middle-income Mitchell-Lama projects are actually in financial hot water.
Welfare
SUIT: ACS RULE HURTS MOMS, KIDS
Kathleen McGowan |
Today, if a woman contacts the city authorities to report being battered, she can very well lose her children on the grounds that she can’t protect them from the abuser. A new class action suit aims to change that.
FROM GOLD ST. TO WALL STREET?
Kathleen McGowan |
Rumors are flying that the head of the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development is about to move to a job in the private sector.
Education
SUMMERTIME BLUES FOR INTERNATIONAL H.S.
Kathleen McGowan |
When two Queens alternative high schools applied to become charters, they lost an exemption that protected graduating seniors from the Regents exams.
