An MTA Human Resources staffer is under investigation for taking cash payments from job hunters in a pay-to-work scheme, the Daily News has learned. Ronica Ganesh, 28, is suspected of promising applicants she could snag them entry-level subway mechanic positions for at least $1,000, sources said. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority inspector general’s office and Manhattan [...]
The city’s largest municipal public employee union is asking the mayor to hold contract spending flat and cut waste instead of laying off workers. District Council 37 and elected officials discussed in Downtown Manhattan on Friday Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to lay off city workers while raising spending on outside contracts by $600 million. They [...]
A billboard that an anti-abortion group erected last Friday in SoHo, a half-mile from a Planned Parenthood center, claiming that “the most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb,” quickly stirred discussion and controversy. “This billboard simply doesn’t belong in New York City,” Bill de Blasio, the city’s public advocate, said in a [...]
The State Health Department on Thursday will propose a cap on yearly increases in Medicaid financing that will require across-the-board spending cuts by health care providers. The spending cap, part of an overhaul of the way the state budgets its spending on health care for the poor, would require millions of dollars in cuts by [...]
Tom Golisano, the three-time New York gubernatorial candidate and billionaire Rochester-area native, is becoming the spokesman for the National Popular Vote campaign, bankrolling an effort to get states to move to a popular-vote system for electing a president. Golisano, the founder of Paychex Inc. in Penfield, will announce his role at a news conference in [...]
Plans for building new city schools got slashed by 16,000 seats, Education Department officials announced Friday. Neighborhoods – such as Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Riverdale, the Bronx; North Shore, Staten Island and Bayside, Queens – each will lose out on hundreds of seats that the agency had expected to build by 2014. Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, alone will lose [...]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s budget unveiled yesterday called for closing fire companies, shutting senior centers, and the layoffs of more than 4,600 teachers. Yet he says his budget is not an assault on unions. “Cutting back is not anti-union. Cutting back is pro…, I guess you could say, pro-taxpayer,” said Bloomberg on his weekly radio show [...]
Mayor Mike Bloomberg personally delivered a message for Albany pols yesterday: Don’t short New York City to balance your budget. Appearing before the State Assembly, the mayor said the $2.1 billion reduction in funding that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing would cause “layoffs and services cuts that would be devastating to our city.” In his [...]
