GLOOMY FORECASTS
K. Wright |
Job market analyses reveal a perfect storm of unemployment, with relief running out and the private sector holding back.
NO MORE SOFT SPOT
K. Wright |
The national parties set a new record in their last chance to use soft money contributions.
Christine Quinn
FLOATING TARGET
K. Wright |
Chelsea’s elected officials want to sink Target’s plan to dock a store-in-a-boat on the Hudson.
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.
September 11th (9/11)
SIZE MATTERS
K. Wright |
Post-9/11 small business assistance is targeting companies with fewer than ten employees.
SMART MONEY
K. Wright |
Mutual funds that consider the social impact of their investments stay competitive, even in tough times.
BEYOND METHADONE
K. Wright |
People living with drug addiction get new treatment options that may allow them to avoid the frustrations of methadone.
September 11th (9/11)
LITTLE PARIS
K. Wright |
Speaker Gifford Miller sees a Paris-style public market in Lower Manhattan.
THE DRAWING BOARD
K. Wright |
More than half of the Council districts have non-white majorities in the Districting Commission’s first draft of a new political map.
