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From the central Bronx to the North Shore of Staten Island, an unusually high number of incumbent City Councilmembers are in tough races this year. A look at some of…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jul 2009

ARTS and CULTURE Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

The City's Latest Hirings and Retirings

A new state education leader takes the helm, as more New Yorkers head to Washington and the Pratt Center gets a new director.

ByNekoro Gomes 0Comments

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Jul 2009

Justice

What Stands Between A Child And A Lasting Family

A study is underway that looks at how to lower the barriers to securing permanent homes for children in the foster care system.

ByKaren Loew 0Comments

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Jul 2009

Housing and Homelessness

The Forty Years War

The ‘war on drugs’ continues as ever, though you might not hear much about it anymore. The new issue of CLI looks at its advances and setbacks — and who’s…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jul 2009

Education Government Justice

A Nurturing Network Grows In Bushwick

Amid a citywide plan to support a new model for child welfare, a foster parent serves as a recruiter and role model in her neighborhood.

ByNekoro Gomes 0Comments

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Jun 2009

ARTS and CULTURE Justice

Remodeling Child Welfare By Answering This 'Request'

Agencies providing foster care and preventive services are working to secure new contracts that write recent innovations into the record.

ByJessica Glazer 0Comments

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Jun 2009

Government

Second In Command: A Lawyer's Argument

In the final installment of our series on the race for public advocate, a look at civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel’s third run for the city’s number-two post.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jun 2009

Justice

Counterproductive Cuts: Budget Takes Us Backward

Human services nonprofits and their clients — already a vulnerable group — have already absorbed more than enough budget austerity.

ByNancy Wackstein 0Comments

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May 2009

Economy

After 'Rock' Reform: System Still Needs Help

The state’s drug laws are improved — but prisons still have ‘a huge feeder system called the criminal justice system in the state of New York,’ says John Jay Prof.…