What makes less sense: the city paying to provide security at ritzy private schools, or lawmakers from six hours away having a say over the MTA?
Intro 1447 would ‘move the goal posts when it comes to qualifying for employment in New York City’s construction industry,’ the author argues.
The mayor told a debate audience that most of his donations were from people who contributed $175 or less. Is that true?
Takes from WNYC, Gotham Gazette, Politico, the Times and, of course, City Limits.
‘De Blasio wants to embrace Bloomberg’s bottomed-out, third-term school years as his starting point, because things could only improve after that.’
Challenger Sal Albanese and the debate format had the mayor on the defensive all night. He didn’t make mistakes or get much chance to talk about what he would do with a second term.
‘We reject the mayor’s rezoning proposal. Not only does it fail to reflect what the community prioritized in the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, but it will allow nothing short of a land grab for developers.’
What do the mayor and his chief Democratic challenger hope to do in their first debate? What will voters get out of it?
“New York State should immediately increase funding for the state Department of Health, for education and training of healthcare providers to increase low-threshold buprenorphine access, and for harm reduction programs stretched extremely thin across the state.”
The mayor appoints a majority of members. The chair heads a mayoral agency. But the City Planning Commission is supposed to scrutinize each rezoning application on its own merit. Can it?
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