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.
Staten Island
Truth, Justice and the American Way: Rufus Arkoi
Jill Grossman |
Soccer coach, teacher, fixer
Government
HEEE’S BACK
Jill Grossman |
Marvin Markus, the investment banker known for leading the Rent Guidelines Board in passing the highest rent increases in the board’s history, is back.
Manhattan
SHORT ON SHELTER, THE CITY PUTS FAMILIES IN A FELON'S HOTEL
Jill Grossman |
In the city’s search for hotel rooms to house an overflow of homeless families in city shelters, the Department of Homeless Services has begun placing families in a building whose owner has a record of building code violations and criminal convictions for harassment.
Welfare
MR. TURNER GOES TO WASHINGTON
Jill Grossman |
The city’s former welfare czar Jason Turner has taken his thoughts on welfare reauthorization to Washington, where he was recently made a visiting fellow for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank with close ties to the White House.
Bronx
THE RACE IS STILL ON
Jill Grossman |
As far as Governor Pataki is concerned, the local school board elections have been postponed until next spring. But tell that to the Board of Elections, which accepted dozens of petitions last week from board hopefuls gearing up for a May 7 election.
Michael Bloomberg
Shelter Skelter
Jill Grossman |
Families can’t find homes they can afford, so the city is paying landlords $3,000 a month to lodge them. Only in New York.
Welfare
JOB DOLLARS: IN NEW YORK, IT’S WAIT AND SWITCH
Jill Grossman |
The city has four months to spend more than $60 million in federal job training money left over from the Giuliani administration before it loses it to Albany. This while the city’s welfare agency plans to shift ultimate responsibility to the Department of Employment.
Manhattan
SCHOOL BOARD GROWS TIRED OF ITSELF, REQUESTS DISMISSAL
Jill Grossman |
Attempting to head off the state legislature’s own conclusions on the future of school governance in the Big Apple, the school board in one of the city’s top-ranked districts plans to weigh in this week, and ask that all local boards, itself included, be disbanded.
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.
