Most advocates are happy the city’s child welfare agency will be placing children in foster care near their homes–but a few are asking what happens to kids with special needs.
Both the Working Families Party and the Green Party exceeded the number of gubernatorial votes needed to automatically appear on state ballots for the next four years.
If Senator Al D’Amato loses the election in September, the new chair of the banking committee will be Phil Gramm, no friend of the Community Reinvestment Act.
In the November issue of City Limits: An expose of the sordid conditions of Hegeman House, a city-run group home that is supposed to provide a haven for some of…
The Senate banking committee just okayed a massive overhaul of the country’s financial services laws, and comminity advocates are worried it will scuttle existing fair lending rules.