The Mayor is withholding the checks for scores of local nonprofits with city contracts, but until the City Council can prove the groups are hurting, a lawsuit is on hold.
The city has agreed to get the word out about a package of benefits for welfare recipients who have HIV-related illnesses, a policy it had been keeping under wraps.
Local opponents to a proposed waste-transfer station in Brooklyn were pleased to see that the state wants the builder to prepare an Environmental Inpact Statement for the facility.