City officials have decided to close six more schools because of a high number of students reporting flu-like symptoms. Four of the schools are in East Harlem. They include P.S. 83, which shares its space with P.S. 182, and P.S. 155, which includes P169, a school for children with disabilities. The two remaining schools are [...]
It was a bold start for a challenge to the local Democratic Party structure. Former state assemblyman Joe Nicoletti announcing he has the support of the leader of the Syracuse Common Council and that leader making it clear she has problems with the party’s mayoral designee. “I’m looking for leadership that is more even tempered [...]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed tax on plastic bags may be headed straight for the garbage bin. City Council members are lining up against it, along with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. “Basically it’s a food tax. It’s something that we don’t support and we are heartened by the fact that we feel the Speaker agrees [...]
After several months of delays, a Web site that offers an interactive portfolio of public school students’ test scores, grades and attendance rates will be available for all parents by the end of June, the Department of Education said on Thursday. The announcement came at a critical moment for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg: lawmakers in [...]
Borough President James Molinaro’s pick for the City Planning Commission, a Realtor studying urban planning, is the sister of his daughter-in-law, Molinaro and his new appointee confirmed yesterday. Rayann Besser said she disclosed the link — her sister Cheryl Molinaro was married to Molinaro’s late son, Stephen — during a background check by the city [...]
State Senator Hiram Monserrate’s lawyers reportedly want his assault indictment thrown out because a police officer who was on his grand jury works in the precinct that investigated him. According to a report in today’s Daily News, one of the officers who testified before the grand jury told Monserrate’s lawyers he recognized a fellow officer [...]
The governor is trying to make it easier for the state’s unemployed to tap into the growing list of jobs created under the economic stimulus plan. Paterson says he will now require employers to post listings on the State Labor Department website for any job created by stimulus funding. With over 500,000 New Yorkers currently [...]
The National Organization for Marriage, a conservative Christian group that has fought efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in California and in the Northeast, has set its sights on New York with its latest media campaign. Beginning Thursday in the New York City and Albany markets, the organization will run a 30-second television commercial that warns [...]
Gov. David A. Paterson’s office confirms that his top energy adviser Paul DeCotis will join the Long Island Power Authority as vice president of power markets late next month. Paterson spokesman Morgan Hook said DeCotis would remain on the governor’s staff until the end of the State Legislature’s regular session on June 22. This morning, [...]
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board officially rolled back its previously adopted transit service cuts Wednesday, and also confirmed Long Island Rail Road president Helena Williams as the MTA’s new interim chief. To help close an unprecedented $1.2-billion budget gap, the board earlier this year approved widespread cuts in service throughout the MTA, including the reduction [...]
