With the Sept. 15 primary almost here, City Councilwoman Maria Baez has punked out of debating the two challengers for her West Bronx seat.
There’re a lotta questions she may not want to answer at the debate, which airs 9 p.m. Monday on Gary Axelbank’s BronxTalk (channel 67), co-sponsored by the Bronx News Network.
Though Maria says [...]
Despite the Big Apple’s fiscal crisis, City Council members went on a spending spree with taxpayer money last year, snatching up expensive furniture, flashy electronics, wedding invitations and a bizarre order of school supplies.
A Post review of the council’s expense reports at Staples and J&R, where city lawmakers have tax-free business accounts, revealed a slew [...]
The city is struggling through tough times, but you’d never know it from the way the City Council is doling out pork — including $85,000 earmarked for a group Mayor Bloomberg disqualified from getting taxpayer money last year.
The grants to the Davidson Community Center in The Bronx are included in the council’s spending report for [...]
