As public advocate, he saw shortcomings in the city’s compliance with the public information law. A City Limits test of transparency in his young administration finds room for improvement remains.
The settlement of the long-standing legal fight over discrimination by the FDNY is at least the fifth time the de Blasio administration has broken off Bloomberg-era legal fights.
Conventional wisdom aside, there’s no reason to believe that government cannot have a transformational effect on millions of lives, writes the late Robert Hess, because it already has.
Civilians appear to have been the victims of today’s tragedy in Harlem. But building collapses also pose a grave threat to firefighters and other responders.
For six years, the lowest paid human-service workers in New York State have not had a cost of living adjustment, meaning their real wages have shrunk by nearly 12 percent.…
