The Big Idea: Citizen Planners
Francesca Polletta |
Explained at last: What electronic town meetings like Listening to the City actually accomplish.
NYC Inc: Twilight Zoning
Laura Wolf-Powers |
The city says the new landscape of historically industrial areas of Williamsburg will be “mixed use.” But high-priced housing won’t just sound the death knell for existing industry–it will weaken New York’s economy, too.
Latino
L.A. Confident
Bobbi Murray |
When government offers subsidies to corporations, West Coast communities have won by playing hardball at the bargaining table. Now New York’s getting in on the action.
Latino
Miracle on 33rd Street
Debbie Nathan |
This holiday season, more than 200,000 letters from poor
New Yorkers will plead with Santa Claus for toys, clothes, even school supplies. But how many will get what they wish for? It all depends on how visitors to a post office charity program decide who’s needy and who’s merely nice.
Child Welfare
Called Safe
Wendy Davis |
A spate of deaths, starvations and other horrors are recent reminders that too many foster homes are anything but havens for endangered kids. Why does it happen? If only their caseworkers knew.
The New Kids in School
Penelope Duda |
The city’s fast-track Teaching Fellows program allows would-be educators to jump in the classroom after just seven weeks’ preparation. We need the teachers-but we also need to figure out how to get them to stay for keeps.
