Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New York City’s schools can’t close for Muslim holidays. The City Council is considering a nonbinding resolution on Tuesday asking the Education Department to observe Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. The city has the nation’s largest school system. A 2008 study by Columbia University’s Teachers College estimates at least 10 percent of [...]
House Minority Leader John Boehner has tapped Rep. Pete King (R-Long Island) for a slot on the intelligence committee — a move that is likely to put the outspoken security hawk on the sidelines for the 2010 GOP Senate primary in New York. King, who has been considering a run, is already ranking member on the [...]
Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Monday that he is considering running for governor in 2010. On CNN’s “American Morning,” Giuliani said “I don’t know if I am or if I’m not” running for governor. But pushed further, the former 2008 Republican presidential candidate conceded he is indeed “thinking about it.” “I don’t know if [...]
The New York State Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state, has announced that it will hear the Atlantic Yards eminent domain case—Goldstein et al. v. N.Y. State Urban Development Corporation—in October. The owners of homes and properties targeted for seizure have argued that the use of eminent domain for the Atlantic Yards proposal violates New [...]
As an appeals court judge weighs whether to intervene in the three-week standoff that has paralyzed New York’s Senate, Democrats have again locked themselves into the chambers. Republican Sen. Thomas Libous, a leader of the group that mounted a June 8 coup against the Democratic conference, says court action could drag the dispute into the [...]
A judge late Monday ordered New York’s split Senate into a working session but the Republican-led coalition that seized power three weeks ago promised an appeal that is likely to delay the passage of any legislation. Gov. David Paterson has called the two squabbling factions to work every day for a week since a power [...]
Long Island’s Suffolk County has recorded a third death linked to Swine Flu. County health officials said Monday the victim, a Babylon man between the ages of 65 and 75, had an underlying medical condition. Suffolk Health Commissioner Dr. Humayun Chaudhry said the man died Monday and had been hospitalized since early June with multiple [...]
Public advocate candidate Eric Gioia was the lone city councilman to vote against the budget this year. Gioia said he feared some of the lawmakers’ discretionary spending – known as “pork” – might later be found to have gone to sketchy causes. Despite his concerns, Gioia, a Queens Democrat, had no problem plying local groups [...]
A judge is expected to rule on whether Republicans and Democrats fighting for control of the New York Senate must meet as one body to comply with Gov. David Paterson’s call for special sessions. Paterson is trying to force them to pass bonding, taxing and other measures set to expire shortly. He says neither faction [...]
New research estimates that half a million New Yorkers have been infected by swine flu – casting doubts on the city’s claim that transmission of the has declined. The alarming data was released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which estimated there have been 50 times more cases nationwide than have been [...]
