Automatic medicaid sought for ex-prisoners with mental illness.
A Chelsea drug treatment center gets its clients hooked on advocacy.
Even as violence plummets at Rikers Island, suicides may be increasing, and the city agency that oversees jails wants to know why.
When Center for New York City Law researchers ranked the city’s 100 biggest contracts this year, they found a notable trend.
Take a look at this year’s list of the city’s top 100 contracts and you’ll notice a new trend–competitive bidding is on the wane, replaced by a one-on-one negotiations that leave outsiders in the cold.
Once the arbiters of last resort, New York’s judges have become referees for city policy, from welfare reform to environmental cleanup. But just when judges should be keeping the mayor in check, his legal team makes sure they stay on the sidelines.
Palm trees, surf and endless summers aren’t the only reasons to envy La-La Land. Some of its urban policies aren’t bad, either. From a thriving manufacturing sector to a living-wage law and a child welfare system that focuses on keeping families together, Angelenos are doing quite a few things right.
By representing pro-democracy union dissidents, lawyer Arthur Schwartz is doing well while doing good. Can he finally unseat untouchable maintenance union boss Gus Bevona?
An innovative new drug treatment and family counseling center grows on the site of one of Alphabet City’s most notorious cocaine-dealing bodegas.
