Food pantries and soup kitchens have been struggling to serve the growing number of welfare reform casualties. Now this largely volunteer system is picking up social services where government left…
Slum landlords can rest easy. The corps of city lawyers that defends tenants against code violations has been slashed from 45 attorneys to 18 in the last four years.
Immigrant groups that have used school boards as a portal into politics were relieved when the feds shot down a plan to dismantle the current election system. But confusion about…
Now that labor boss Gus Bevona is out, the custodian’s union is making some loud noise about an increasingly common practice: breaking a union contract by hiring subcontractors.
Judge Robert J. Ward heard a groundbreaking class-action case against the city’s child welfare agency, but does it make sense for him to preside over all similar lawsuits?
