The speaker weighed in on whether Mayor de Blasio’s presidential flirtation is a distraction, what he’s learned so far as Council leader, what he wants to see out of charter…
Bail reform, congestion pricing, education aid … the 2020 state budget had a lot. Including, according to a quiz City Limits’ editor took on air, hundreds of uses of the…
The more than 600 fiscal intermediaries statewide allows elderly and disabled people to hire and manage personal assistants. Critics say the governor’s executive budget would cut that number by at…
‘At less than one-half of 1 percent of the city’s overall budget, the Department for the Aging has long struggled to receive the financial support it requires to meet its…
‘The reality is if you lose even a handful of those billionaires or multi-millionaires, those who have two or three houses somewhere else and can pretty quickly change their legal…
Advocates predict that changes proposed by the governor could reduce the number of ‘fiscal intermediaries,’ who help administer the Medicaid program that pays for home-health aides, by 90 percent.
The vote avoided an alternative plan that would have hiked the base fare to $3, something disabled riders and advocates argued would unevenly burden Access-a-Ride users.
