Latino
TRANSLATION BILL NIXED
C. Feldman |
Mayor Bloomberg vetoes Education Equity Act, a bill aimed at providing better translation services for parents of public school children.
Latino
Saying, Not Showing
Debbie Nathan |
We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11
By Tram Nguyen, with a foreward by Edwidge Danticat, Beacon Press, $14
Gifford Miller
Voting by Moxie
City Limits |
Half the city’s immigrant population can’t legally vote, but that hasn’t kept them from taking part in politics. How the newest New Yorkers are drawing the eye of savvy politicians.
Bronx
PRIMARY 2005: CITY COUNCIL RACES TO WATCH
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Welcome to August in New York, a month of humidity, vacations–and political warfare. While many of the primary races are all sewn up, a few of them are just getting interesting. City Limits takes a look at the good, the bad and the ugly.
Bronx
INS AND OUTS
Rong Xiaoqing |
The latest hirings, firings and retirings from New York’s nonprofits and government agencies.
Family Court
The Road Home
Cassi Feldman |
To get their kids out of foster care, parents who’ve already been through one hell have had to hustle through another: getting help from a series of separate government bureaucracies. Until now. The city is connecting the dots to help families find housing.
Latino
Department of Corrections
Curtis Stephen |
Costly lawsuits from mistreated suspects have caused cities and states to start monitoring police officers’ performance. But even after paying out tens of millions of dollars for illegal strip searches, the NYPD would rather fight it out in court.
