Candidates were on the campaign trail Sunday making their closing arguments prior to the special election on Tuesday in the 20th Congressional District. “I think this is what this election is all about — leadership,” Republican and Conservative candidate James Tedisco said Sunday morning at a campaign stop at West Mountain ski center in Queensbury. [...]
The city’s water board is on the verge of raising rates again. The board is meeting Friday, and is expected to approve a 14 percent hike. Rates went up about the same last year. Ahead of the vote, City Comptroller Bill Thompson and City Councilman David Weprin are calling on the city to change the [...]
Colleagues of State Senator Hiram Monserrate, who has been indicted on six counts of assaulting his companion, have discussed setting up a fund to aid his legal defense, senators said on Thursday. The idea of helping Mr. Monserrate cover his legal expenses came up during a closed-door meeting of Senate Democrats this week. Though senators [...]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is ramping up efforts to win a third term in office. The mayor will officially open campaign offices tomorrow in the Bronx and Queens. On Sunday, he will open offices in Brooklyn and Manhattan, and on Staten Island. His staff has been working at the Manhattan headquarters since January. The City Council [...]
New York‘s unemployment rate jumped in February to its highest level since June 1993, rising to 7.8 percent from 7 percent in January, the state labor department said Thursday. That compares to just 4.6 percent in February 2008. In New York City, the February rate was 8.1 percent _up from 6.9 percent in January and [...]
Rochester-area billionaire Tom Golisano Thursday urged the state Legislature to reject higher taxes as part of the state budget, saying he would put his money through his Responsible New York committee into candidates who vote against the state spending plan. “We’re going in the wrong direction here,” he told reporters at the Capitol. “The last [...]
They’re still on the firing line. Despite a hefty financial boost from the federal government, as many as 5,000 of the city’s public-school staffers — including 2,000 teachers — could still be out of a job come September, according to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein. Klein told City Council members yesterday that state lawmakers were weighing [...]
Governor David Paterson has appointed Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam to fill the seat in the state court’s Appellate Division. She has been a Justice in the Supreme Court of New York since 1994, after serving two years as a Civil Court Judge in the city. Abdus-Salaam also served as General Counsel to the City Division of [...]
The same day the Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted for big fare increases and cuts in service, a bill was introduced in Albany that would force fiscal reform on the New York City transit operator. The bill would make appointees individually accountable for management of the long-criticized MTA while opening up budgets and fiscal records that [...]
Married lesbian couples can now list their names as parents as soon as their children are born in New York City, rather than having to go to court to secure their place on a basic hallmark of parenthood: a birth certificate. The city Board of Health voted unanimously Tuesday to make the change, which has [...]
