Bronx
Volunteer Shelter Network Up In Arms Over Changes
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A proposed reorganization of homeless drop-in centers and overnight beds by the city has advocates crying foul.
Bronx
Language Companies Shut By New Dept. of Ed Policy
Helen Zelon |
Small businesses in the boroughs won’t survive under new textbook purchasing rules.
Bill Clinton
Theme And Variations On Deprivation And Dignity
David Jason Fischer |
A new book includes perspectives on poverty in America both from scholars and those with firsthand experience.
Bronx
Impact Unknown: The CEO's Poverty-Fighting Efforts
Neil deMause |
At the first hearing on the city’s much-touted group of programs, the administration’s message was: Ask again later.
Education
Among Heartland Homages, Pols Address Urban Issues
Jarrett Murphy |
The presidential candidates have staked out very different positions on housing, schools, crime, infrastructure and other issues key to urban America.
Queens
Election Day Test Looms For New Voting Devices
Jarrett Murphy |
Nov. 4 should be the beginning of the end for the city’s lever voting machines, as New York continues its belated effort to comply with the Help America Vote Act.
Bronx
Women's Clinics Seek Greater Protection
Neil deMause |
Proposed city legislation aims to clear the path to clinics that provide abortions.
Bronx
State Senate Power May Hinge On Queens Contests
Jarrett Murphy |
Democrats’ hopes to take control of the legislature’s upper house — in 2008 and potentially for decades beyond — hangs in the balance of three races in the city.
Brooklyn
HIV Prevention, Treatment Hit By Local Funding Cuts
Alex Cotton |
Numbers showing the city’s AIDS epidemic rages on worse than thought arrived in tandem with state cuts for AIDS-fighting measures. In a climate with plenty of needs and ever fewer resources, this is the first in an ongoing series looking at reduced social services funding.
Bronx
Business Backers Rally Around Bloomberg Bid
Jarrett Murphy |
Who are the financiers, developers and corporate titans lining up behind the mayor’s move to revoke term limits?
