Gifford Miller
LIVING WAGES
K. Wright |
The Council passed what advocates are calling the country’s most sweeping living wage bill—even after Gifford Miller diluted it in hopes of avoiding a veto.
Gifford Miller
Knocking on Wood
Matt Pacenza |
In its effort to rebuild parts of the subway system, the city’s transit authority is using wood forested from rare African jungles, and, environmentalists charge, buying the wood from a company with possible links to al Qaeda.
Christine Quinn
Down to Business
Annia Ciezadlo |
The new Council is busy with a bevy of activist legislation–but how long will it last?
Staten Island
Focus on Fixing the Schools: Social Promotion
Nora McCarthy |
Take dismal public schools. Add prosperous parents. Shake up. Is a new recipe for revitalizing the city’s education system being written in Riverdale, Park Slope and the Upper East Side?
Gifford Miller
Bloomberg Says Work a Must, Rejects Bill
Jill Grossman |
The Bloomberg administration has vowed to block a City Council effort to have education count towards the city’s work requirements for welfare.
Gifford Miller
Greens Raise the Rooftops
Matthew T. Mitchell |
New York tries to turn rooftops into top-notch energy machines.
Gifford Miller
Big Idea: Living Wage Junkonomics
J.W. Mason |
Opponents to living wage laws claim that raising pay hurts not just businesses but workers, too. Too bad the data says they’re wrong.
Gifford Miller
HOMEOWNERS PREY NEW LENDING LAWS UNDO THE TRICK
Elizabeth Olsson and Matt Pacenza |
The City Council may have grabbed headlines with their push against predatory lending, but the real action is in Albany, where Joe Bruno and the Republicans have announced they’re backing a Senate bill. Will they end homeowner rip-offs, or just get points for pretending to?
Gifford Miller
RAINY DAY PEOPLE: COUNCIL MEMBERS FIND SOME CASH
Jill Grossman |
A day after Mayor Bloomberg, in his State of the City address, reminded City Council members to make severe cuts to their budgets, a few handfuls of those Council members suggested he pick deeper pockets–in Albany and Washington.
Gifford Miller
Council Gets Fres
Jill Grossman |
New electeds want a new order, but business as usual could do them in.
