New York has moved from battleship-sized homeless shelters to a network of privately-run, smaller treatment programs. But is the get-well-or get-out philosophy really a solution?
Who says overcrowded public schools are the only option for black kids? Increasingly, poor and working-class African American parents are sending their kids to Afrocentric private academies that have taken…
The nonprofit good-government group Citizen Action is trying to do what the state legislature has thus far refused to do–computerize lists of the tens of thousands of contributions made to…
The City Council is planning to expand the rights of AIDS sufferers on public assistance, and unless two Giuliani administration officials agree to come to hearings on the topic, they’ll…
Judge Judith Kaye would like to change courts to allow alternatives to jail for some offenders, but Albany’s politicians are unlikely to go along with the plan.
ACORN is planning a lawsuit to challenge the city’s practice of making welfare recipients work off their checks at a rate based on an out-of-date minimum wage.
