The city has four months to spend more than $60 million in federal job training money left over from the Giuliani administration before it loses it to Albany. This while the city’s welfare agency plans to shift ultimate responsibility to the Department of Employment.
Spanish-speaking residents of Bushwick claim no one at their local hospitals speaks their language, leaving them confused and, at times, without proper care. So a community group has asked the attorney general to investigate for civil rights violations.
While Bronx residents wonder whether the city will build a water filtration plant in their neighborhoods, Mayor Bloomberg is sending mixed messages.
A former school board president agrees that boards should just go away.
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