Bill Clinton
The Big Idea: Ailing Giant
Kai Wright |
Take a shaky health care system that grew too fast. Add recession. Stir in Dubya’s new deregulation plan. What do you get? Medicaid’s collapse.
Bill Clinton
A Room of One's Own
Matt Pacenza |
The massive Harlem HUD scandal left hundreds of abandoned brownstones in its wake. But now there’s good news, too: it is also giving birth to a vibrant new tenant movement.
Staten Island
Faith Accompli
Ian Wilhelm |
A Crown Heights church is one of a dozen in the city getting government cash to bring welfare recipients into line. Its minister breaks a Giuliani gag order to speak the truth about charitable choice.
Government
GOVERNOR QUIETLY MOVES TO BUY HIS ISLAND FOR NEW YORK
City Limits |
Touting expenses for private developers, Gov. Pataki produces a plan to return Governor’s Island to New York.
Bill Clinton
Making Up Kids' Minds
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The charter school revolution has arrived, with promises of innovation and choice. But community groups say the business has room for only one idea of what kids need from their schools.
Bill Clinton
Law & Borders: The New Community Policing Turns Neighbors Into Cops
Annia Ciezadlo |
When the NYPD designated Valentine Avenue as a “model block,” residents hoped it would mean safer streets. Instead, they found themselves fighting crime on their own.
Bill Clinton
Gramm’s Fairy Tales
Kathleen McGowan |
Curmudgeonly commentary, an enemies list and Texas-sized lies–Senator Phil Gramm is out to destroy the Community Reinvestment Act, and even the banks can’t stop him.
Bronx
Response Time
City Limits |
Five activists probe the city’s reaction to the Amadou Diallo shooting, from the politics behind the protests to the future of organizing. Has New York witnessed the spark of a lasting movement, or just a shooting star?
Bill Clinton
City Lit: Nuts to Soup
Theresa Funiciello |
A book review of Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlements by Janet Poppendieck, Viking Press, 1998, 354 pages, $26.95.
