Waterfront
SUNSET RIDES
K. Wright |
A new bus service will move night shift employees of Sunset Park waterfront businesses to and from work.
DRUGS FOR EVERYBODY
K. Wright |
Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried wants to create a statewide prescription drug insurance program.
Bronx
PARK PLANT HEARINGS
K. Wright |
The Assembly is holding hearings today in Manhattan to vet the city’s controversial proposal to put a filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park.
TURN IN YOUR UNIFORM
K. Wright |
Comptroller William Thompson Jr. has a suggestion for city agencies looking to cut: Go civilian.
SPREADING BLAME
K. Wright |
The city workers’ union complains that while agencies are laying off its members, they’re giving raises to managers.
EARNING YOUR EITC
K. Wright |
Details are emerging on the IRS’s push to make people who apply for the EITC get approval months before filing.
Bronx
WHAT'S NEXT?
K. Wright |
With the budget battle all but closed upstate, two New York City fights are bound to heat up fast.
Recycling
THE RECYLING MYTH
K. Wright |
The comptroller says the city could save $16 million next year if it went back to full-scale recycling.
Michael Bloomberg
A CUT BY ANY OTHER NAME…
K. Wright |
The mayor’s plan to save $75 million in social service program costs without cutting actual services doesn’t live up to its billing.
Bronx
STRIKE THREAT
K. Wright |
Promesa’s ongoing labor dispute is heating up, and may end in a strike.
