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This fall, voters will decide on a minor change to rules governing the location of sewage plants and garbage stations. But environmental advocates and community planners wanted more.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Aug 2010

Government

Term Limits, Fair Share To Be On November Ballot

The Charter Revision Commission green-lighted several questions for voters to decide this fall, including whether to return to a two-term limit. But the push for nonpartisan elections died with a…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Aug 2010

Government

MTA's Bus Cuts: The Hardest Hit

Transit service reductions will inconvenience millions of commuters. But for thousands of people in a few neighborhoods, the cuts will be more deeply felt.

ByJake Mooney 0Comments

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Jul 2010

Government

City Agencies Uneven On Voter Registration Push

An impromptu survey finds that about half of a sample of city offices participate in a 20-year-old program to distribute voter registration forms.

ByChris Giblin 0Comments

13

Jul 2010

Government

Charter Panel Wrestles With Agenda

Some members of the Charter Revision Commission disagreed pointedly with the panel’s own staff over what changes to city government are worth contemplating before a November vote.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jul 2010

Government

Watchdog Says Save Public Advocate, Beeps

The Citizen Union’s recommendations to the city’s charter revision commission go well beyond the good-government group’s reversal on nonpartisan elections.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Government

Preservation Vs. Progress In Fight Over Harlem School

P.S. 186 on 145th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam in Harlem has not echoed with the thud of books or the hum of adolescent gossip since the mid-1970's. Its "green…

ByDemetria Irwin 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Government Justice

Sewage, Cement And Staten Island's Future

The Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant is designed to handle 60 million gallons of sewage per day. Photo by: Marc Fader Projects to upgrade a sewage plant and construct a cement…

ByJake Mooney 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Government

Government Integrity Is Charter Panel's Focus

Mayor Bloomberg, at left, speaks in front of a giant Mayor Bloomberg, at right, during the 2009 campaign. Some public testimony to the Charter Revision Commission held that the mayor's…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Government

Can Industry Save A Staten Island Marsh?

Richmond Terrace, the bumpy former cow path that is the main road along Staten Island's North Shore, starts at the St. George Ferry Terminal and winds past dozens of storage…

ByJake Mooney 0Comments

Neighborhood Advocates See Push For Power Blocked

Term Limits, Fair Share To Be On November Ballot

MTA's Bus Cuts: The Hardest Hit

City Agencies Uneven On Voter Registration Push

Charter Panel Wrestles With Agenda

Watchdog Says Save Public Advocate, Beeps

Preservation Vs. Progress In Fight Over Harlem School

Sewage, Cement And Staten Island's Future

Government Integrity Is Charter Panel's Focus

Can Industry Save A Staten Island Marsh?

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