A BID FOR NO MORE TAXES

While Mayor Bloomberg touts the importance of business improvement districts for keeping shopping areas clean, the city’s recent property tax hike has turned a group of businesses in Flushing against a proposed district in their community–another tax, they say, could kill their already suffering profits.

TRAINING TIME

By challenging a City Council law meant to give New Yorkers on welfare more education and training opportunities, the mayor is squandering the only time the legislation could be enforced-without costing the city a dime.

CHANGING TACK

The CDC announced a new focus for its HIV prevention strategy that some advocates worry is dangerously close to mandatory testing.

RUMBLE IN THE PARK

The city’s campaign to build a water filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park, despite community opposition, is slowly moving forward.