Citywide
Do They PAC A Punch? Freelancers Get Political
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Hoping for friendlier policies toward independent workers, the Freelancers Union launched a PAC this year. And local pols paid attention.
Bronx
City Wants Answers, Input On Upstate Drill Plan
Sarah Crean |
A huge underground reserve of natural gas is luring fuel companies to upstate New York. But local officials and advocates are worried about what the drilling will do to the city’s watershed.
Citywide
Green Taxi Case Heads Toward Showdown
Hashim Rahman |
The Bloomberg administration’s hopes for a hybrid-car taxi fleet may hinge on whether a federal appeals court thinks a city plan passes Constitutional muster.
Citywide
Service Providers Question Ability To Meet Needs
Anne Noyes Saini |
Nonprofit leaders wonder when ‘something is going to snap’ in the city’s social services due to funding cuts.
Citywide
Getting Lost On the Way To the Principal's Office
Helen Zelon |
Clear lines of accountability for student discipline are needed in the era of police officers staffing public school hallways, say advocates and officials pushing for new rules.
Citywide
City Pension Plans: Can They Do Good and Do Well?
Jarrett Murphy |
The city’s retirement funds offer a powerful tool for social activism. A look at how Comptroller Bill Thompson and his would-be successors approach the task of putting city money where their morals are.
Citywide
The World's Religions Meet In The Hospital
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Health care providers are availing themselves of new tools to increase their cross-cultural sensitivity.
Bronx
Serving Our Elders: Seniors' Leader Sets Goals
Nekoro Gomes |
At the half-year mark of her new commissionership, Department for the Aging chief Lilliam Barrios-Paoli sits down for a Q&A.
Citywide
Building New Capacities
Anne Noyes Saini |
Nonprofits are forced into creative problem-solving, and some of it is working.
Citywide
Nonprofits' Outlook After A Year Of Living Dangerously
Anne Noyes Saini |
These are nerve-racking times in New York City’s largest private employment sector, delivering crucial social services. And next year looks worse.
