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Budget Cut Avoided, But Children's Services Still Show Strain
There are reports that some parents are having trouble getting child welfare services because a botched contract award and budget threats last year led providers to scale back.
What Cuts Will Cost: Children's Learning, Parents' Work
As tabloids celebrate an on-time state budget, a look at what one budget cut at the city level will mean: fewer childcare slots, less school prep for kids and a tough choice for their working parents.
Bloomberg Deputy's Legacy, From Yankee Stadium To Hudson Yards
Nearly three years after Mayor Bloomberg's powerful deputy mayor and development czar Dan Doctoroff left City Hall, we check in on some of the major—and controversial—projects launched during his tenure.
Asthma In New York: Old News, New Battles
Fights over congestion pricing and the city's sanitation strategy have receded from the headlines. But in North Brooklyn, worry is still in the air.
Getting Lost On the Way
To the Principal's Office
Clear lines of accountability for student discipline are needed in the era of police officers staffing public school hallways, say advocates and officials pushing for new rules.
Where Is the Senate
On Rent Regs Reform?
The State Assembly appears ready to enact an overhaul (again). It's yet to be seen when or if things will change on the other side of the Capitol.
Members Patch The
'Still Broken' Senate
On the heels of a report calling for reform in Albany, Malcolm Smith finally finds himself in the position to begin making changes.
Rent Regs Reform
Gathers Support
An effort to stem a tide of "vacancy decontrols" is gathering steam in the state capitol.
Budget Backfire: Cuts
On the Needy Won't Help
A raft of painful funding reductions is not the best way out of the state's budget crisis.
Toward A Comprehensive
Response To Housing Needs
'I want to take us back to that time where we are a leader in affordable housing,' says DHCR Commissioner Deborah VanAmerongen.
New Governor Heads
An Unchanged Albany
It remains to be seen how policies on housing, social services and more will evolve under Gov. David Paterson - and whether he can sweeten the capital's temper.
Clearing the Air:
After Congestion Pricing
Beyond the administration's bold traffic proposal, are there other big ways to cut traffic?
MOYNIHAN STATION MAKES COMEBACK
ONTO POWERFUL BOARD'S AGENDA
The train station and Atlantic Yards form a blockbuster docket for the PACB next week, City Limits has learned.
'PUBLIC' BOARD SHAPES CITY
IN PRIVATE ALBANY HUDDLES
Big development decisions have local pols and citizens sitting up and taking notice of a powerful yet obscure state board.
SHARING THE WEALTH
Pataki signs legislation to make Ground Zero contracting more diverse.
MATTINGLY’S FIRST PITCH
John Mattingly, the newly appointed commissioner of the city's Administration for Children's Services, faces unprecedented budget cuts.
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: FROM RENT REGS TO THE ROCK
Tenant laws, brownfields, Rockefeller laws and child welfare reform vie for Albany approval.
REPUBLICAN BILL TO STRENGTHEN RENT LAWS OPENS NEGOTIATIONS
Legislation introduced by a handful of Republican senators calls for extending and strengthening the state's rent laws -- and creates a bargaining tool tenant advocates may need in their fight to keep rent regulated apartments affordable.
PATAKI'S BOMBSHELL
Governor Pataki's budget proposal pleased almost no one.
GOVERNOR PUTS A HIGH COST ON PREDATORY LENDING
New York is now one of only three states to have a strict law against predatory lenders, thanks to legislation signed by Governor Pataki last week. Whether New York City will get its own law to further restrict unfair lending practices, however, is now in question.
Sheldon Silver
Sheldon Silver is New York’s longest-serving Democratic speaker. For many years he held a great deal of power in Albany. He was crucial during the budget crisis by convincing Governor Paterson to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers.
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Orientation for citizen budget delegates: District 8
From pbnyc.org: Guidance for participants in the East Harlem portion of a pilot participatory budgeting project in which citizen delegates decide how capital funding is spent.
FoodNYC: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Food System
This report outlines a package of proposals that will make Manhattan's food system more sustainable by prioritizing products from New York State, increasing access to healthy food in underserved neighborhoods, and expanding the food economy.
