And do endorsements really matter. I mean, really?
September 7, 2017 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2017/09/07/pot-charges-free-lunch-and-debate-highlights-campaign-headlines-for-sept-7/Plus, the mayor and schools chancellor make an announcement.
August 22, 2017 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2017/08/22/food-policy-debate-council-looks-at-suits-vs-nypd-official-schedules-for-august-22/When Donald Trump villainizes immigrants as criminals, most of us recognize the President’s sweeping generalizations as not only racist, but dangerous. Will there be “resistance” protests against the mayor’s musings?
July 21, 2017 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2017/07/21/campaignviews-lets-talk-more-about-the-mayors-cruel-take-on-panhandling/Advocates hope access to healthy food, expanding school breakfast and ways to address hunger and the forces that drive it are issues that candidates for city office will be forced to discuss between now and Election Day.
June 7, 2017 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2017/06/07/hope-that-food-issues-will-find-a-place-on-city/Last fall bone fragments forced the removal of chicken tenders from New York City school lunch tables. Now that a student has found a metal fragment, the bird’s off the menu again.
March 20, 2017 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2017/03/20/more-chicken-trouble-for-nyc-school-kitchens/The mayor has rejected criticism and coverage of his preliminary budget as “disingenuous” and “inaccurate.” When Mike Bloomberg was mayor, Councilman Bill de Blasio often found fault in the budget outline.
March 14, 2017 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2017/03/14/when-de-blasio-was-councilman-mayors-draft-budget-was-fair-game/During his weekly radio appearance on WNYC, the mayor said our reports about a proposed cut to a food program were inaccurate and suggested people should bypass the media to learn about the budget.
March 10, 2017 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2017/03/10/mayor-claims-city-limits-story-is-inaccurate/‘Campaigning and governing is now indistinguishable from fundraising. The vast majority of e-mails and letters that I now receive from elected officials are either thinly veiled fundraising pitches or overt ones. The last e-mail I received from Obama as President was a fundraising pitch.’
February 1, 2017 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2017/02/01/no-backspace-its-the-incessant-fundraising-stupid-why-big-money-dooms-democrats/A system of pantries and soup kitchens sustains thousands of people, many of them working, in the borough. Lines stretch down blocks. People queue up three hours early.
December 12, 2016 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2016/12/12/just-another-day-at-the-food-pantries-that-help-the-bronx-survive/The city’s massive school-lunch program stopped serving frozen pizza in May because of a mold scare. After DOE allowed deliveries to proceed in August, a new complaint surfaced.
September 15, 2016 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2016/09/15/city-schools-food-program-struggles-with-pizza-problems/
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