‘Without voting rights, prisoners nationwide are waging nonviolent direct action to fight for better conditions.’
November 19, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/11/19/opinion-voting-rights-could-improve-conditions-reduce-violence-in-ny-prisons/Overblown neighborhood fears create a political environment in which local leaders face risks for supporting a sensible shelter policy. In the middle, but rarely heard amid the uproar, are everyday New Yorkers caught in a crisis.
September 9, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/09/09/the-shelter-wars-citys-need-for-beds-meets-opposition-in-several-neighborhoods/‘Transforming the food system has great potential to sequester carbon, expand well-paid, create clean energy jobs and help reverse the public health crises of food insecurity and diet-related diseases.’
July 19, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/07/19/opinion-put-food-on-the-green-new-deal-menu/Students at 51 percent of schools citywide head to the lunchroom at 11:00 a.m. or earlier. Where does your child’s school rank? And why is it so hard to feed kids at a normal time?
June 11, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/06/11/see-which-nyc-schools-eat-lunch-before-10-a-m/The plan would rezone 20 blocks of Staten Island’s North Shore and could lead to the creation of 1,800 new units of housing, including 1,300 income-targeted apartments. The city has promised $250 million in local investments.
June 7, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/06/07/citys-promises-in-the-spotlight-as-bay-street-rezoning-moves-forward/Rafael Salamanca said a rezoning slated for his district would be ‘dead on arrival’ if the de Blasio administration did not provide estimates of how many residents and businesses might be displaced.
May 31, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/05/31/displacement-bronx-rezoning-council/Opponents of a proposed natural gas pipeline have questioned National Grid’s claim that it needs the new supply to keep up with rising demand. And the utility’s own filings with regulators only add to those questions.
May 15, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/05/15/doubts-about-pipeline-proponents-claims-of-a-gas-shortage/Waivers that exempt able-bodied adults in areas of higher unemployment from food-stamp work rules encourage dependency, conservatives say. But local experts contend the cost of withdrawing those waivers will exceed any benefit.
April 11, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/04/11/trump-admin-s-food-stamp-move-could-cost-city-economy-150m/‘If these higher benefits were eaten up immediately, it’s not like low-income people are spending it on caviar or something. They are struggling just to survive.’
March 4, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/03/04/snap-gap-poor-families-shutdown-hunger/On Thursday, Amazon announced that it was pulling out of its planned HQ2 in Long Island City. Here’s what elected officials, candidates, unions, advocacy groups and business organizations had to say about it
February 14, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/02/14/what-everybody-is-saying-about-the-amazon-pullout/
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