It’s been a decade since New Yorkers first heard that a toxic metal is an element in Caribbean religious ritual. But what do we really know about mercury? A lot less than some people would like you to believe–and a Bronx group wants to change that.
A new national survey of Latinos offers a trove of data on everything from identity to health care.
The Senate set the stage for a power plant siting showdown and pushed through its 31-year-old gay rights bill–without including transgender folks.
Council caucuses want state GOP leader Bruno to join Trent Lott in apologizing for racially insensitive remarks.
Community input altered the first draft of the city’s new political map, but Asian and Russian Americans say not nearly enough.
The city’s Catholic hierarchy is resisting a reform promoted by outsiders–parochial schools, born in Chicago, that succeed by putting poor teenagers to work.
Residents and merchants in Chinatown are waging a campaign to get more political power–by abandoning Soho to share a City Council district with the Lower East Side.
HSBC bank’s recent purchase of a notorious predatory mortgage lender has some people seeing dollar signs — a big bank on the scene means more money for the wronged consumers, they say — and others fearing things could only get worse.
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