Our investigation into New York City’s effort to award more contracts to minority- and women-owned business enterprises revealed shortcomings. What should the de Blasio administration do to correct them?
Cities and states that want to diversify their contractor pool have to prove that genuine disparities exist. Part of our series on New York’s M/WBE initiative.
As local law enforcement follows the feds’ lead in going after city contractors that fake working with minority- and women-owned firms, the future of the MWBE program is in a…
In the city’s effort to diversify city contracting, the administration is limited by procurement rules, MWBE firms by their small size and the law itself by the fuzzy process behind…
Eight years after the Bloomberg administration began an effort to get minority- and women-owned firms a bigger share of city contracts, targets have not been met. Part 1 of a…
Over 450 tenants presented housing authority officials a long list of maintenance and repair needs, and got a promise that fixes would be made by Christmas, organizers say.
A state commission has asked the legislature to review a quirk in the freedom of information law that protects some employees, but not others, from public scrutiny.
At a forum featuring councilmembers hoping to be the city’s next speaker, tough issues were discussed, different styles were displayed and the crowd was anything but silent.
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