Under orders from Washington, Legal Services of New York is moving to take more control of its neighborhood law offices, but one of those offices, in the Bronx, refuses to play along and is taking its main funder to court to stop it.
A few months after giving school superintendents the green light to craft their own federally financed literacy programs, state education officials have gone ahead on their own and hired the companies that will create the curriculum–and a corporation with ties to President Bush is getting a chunk of the contract.
The solution to building more affordable housing, say both Democratic gubernatorial candidates, is state pension funds. Last week Carl McCall went a step further and vowed to pursue the federal support needed to make that funding strategy possible.
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