This year’s high school seniors are out of luck, due to budget cutbacks at the New York Lottery. The Daily News says lottery officials have cut the annual scholarship program to comply with Governor David Paterson’s request that all state agencies cut 10 percent of their budgets. Since 2000, one student from every high school [...]
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau will reportedly not seek re-election, after serving in the office for 35 years. The New York Post is reporting the 89 year old has decided not to run for another term this upcoming fall. The paper says Morgenthau has already been telling close aides. He’s expected to publicly announce the [...]
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn appointed a Queens representative to the position of City Clerk yesterday, infuriating members in Brooklyn. Quinn’s appointment of Acting City Clerk Michael McSweeney passed by a 32-16 vote. All but one member of the 16-person Brooklyn delegation voted against him, largely because they feel Quinn favors Queens with plum council [...]
When Gov. David A. Paterson asked his former top aide and close confidant, Charles J. O’Byrne, to return to his old job earlier this month, Mr. O’Byrne said he would instead take an unpaid role on Mr. Paterson’s political team, which would allow him to continue to work for private clients. The governor’s office has [...]
The city so urgently needs the $2 billion from deadbeats who’ve skipped out on taxes and fines that Controller William Thompson is calling for amnesty on interest and penalties. “We need every dollar right now,” Thompson said after making his proposal in a letter to the mayor Thursday. “We’ll lose the interest and penalties but [...]
Forest City Ratner Cos. scored a major victory towards building its Atlantic Yards mega development on Thursday when a state appellate court unanimously ruled that the Empire State Development Corp. appropriately reviewed and approved the project. Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, a nonprofit community group, which brought the suit, said it would appeal. The group challenged [...]
With a razor-thin margin separating Kenneth Mitchell and Debi Rose, it will be a week or more before North Shore voters know who will next represent them in the City Council. The Board of Elections (BOE) next Wednesday will begin its standard recount of the votes cast in Tuesday’s special election, and also will begin [...]
With time running out for the State Legislature to act on a plan to bail out the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, proposed a compromise on Wednesday that endorses putting tolls on the bridges over the East River and the Harlem River. Any plan that Mr. Silver puts forward carries considerable weight [...]
Mayor Bloomberg has decided to shut down seven blocks of Broadway in the heart of midtown Manhattan, sources told the Daily News Wednesday night, after planners convinced him it would make traffic flow more smoothly while freeing up swaths of space for pedestrians. Broadway will be shut to vehicles between 47th and 42nd Sts. through [...]
After a tight race for re-election last year, U.S. Rep. Michael Arcuri may be getting some extra help holding on to his seat from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Arcuri, D-Utica, is among 40 Democratic representatives on the organization’s Frontline Program list who will get early help laying the groundwork for the 2010 election cycle, [...]
