Uncategorized IDENTIFICATION RULE The Bush administration may be nixing a rule that has allowed undocumented immigrants to get bank accounts.
Uncategorized A FEW CABS MORE The taxi cab commission can hand out 900 more medallions, but 9 percent must be accessible for people with disabilities.
Uncategorized CLOSED FOR BUSINESS Mayor Bloomberg signed legislation yesterday closing down the city’s Department of Employment and folding its functions into other agencies.
Uncategorized WASTING AWAY The city is failing to cash in on $62 million in federally funded, interest-free bonds to pay for school improvements.
Uncategorized TOUGH LOVE FOR AMERICORPS A leading House appropriator intends to block a Senate bill providing emergency funding to stave off AmeriCorps cuts.
Uncategorized COMMUNITY HEALTH The city plans to open community health offices in three neighborhoods with high rates of preventable diseases.
Uncategorized TRANSLATING SERVICES Thirty-six of 51 City Council members are urging the speaker to move on a bill forcing human services agencies to provide translation.
Uncategorized UNCHECKED HOPE HUD is keeping a poor watch over its HOPE VI contracts. A federal audit says only a third of the revitalizations scheduled since 1993 have been finished.
Uncategorized CLOSED FOR SUMMER Summer food aid programs for kids are among the services that didn’t make it through the budget wringer intact.
Uncategorized COMING UP SHORT More than half of “likely voters” say they or someone they knew had trouble meeting monthly housing costs last year.
