ELECTRIC CARS

The city added 352 nearly zero emission, electric cars to its fleet yesterday.

BANKING DISTRICTS

The city will use a collective $100 million in deposits to banks around town to spur economic activity.

RULES, BUT NO MONEY

Nine out of ten principals and superintendents in a national poll called the federal No Child Left Behind an “unfunded mandate.”

SUIT STOPPER

Senator Charles Schumer is fighting an eleventh-hour battle to filibuster a massive energy bill that will undercut environmental lawsuits.

SIZE MATTERS

Advocates aren’t ready to drop the issue of getting a charter commission on class size, and have turned to lobbying the City Council.

INSIDE REGISTRATION

A new survey of a slice of the nearly 100,000 men and boys who the Bush administration has put through its “special registration.”

SPECIAL MASTERS REPORT

The court-appointed panel overseeing the city’s services for homeless families published its first report, calling for more prevention.

OPENING THE MAIL

A group of Democratic legislators are urging the postal service not to open its discounted mailing rates to for-profit companies conducting direct mail campaigns on behalf of nonprofits.

BANNING QUEERS

The New York Department of State is refusing to allow a would-be nonprofit to use the word “queer” in its name.