Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s approval rating is at its lowest point in eight years. According to a newly released Quinnipiac University poll, 51 percent of New Yorkers disapprove of the job he’s doing. Thirty-nine percent of those polled approve of his performance. That’s the worst rating Bloomberg has received since November 2003. The director of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood with 34 Americans on Monday who lost loved ones in Tucson, Virginia Tech and other gun-related tragedies to demand the federal government fix its “broken” background check system. “Every day, 34 Americans are murdered with guns – and most of them are purchased or possessed illegally,” said Bloomberg, who also co-heads [...]
Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday that he had no idea that $750,000 of the $1.2 million he donated to the state Independence Party last year for poll-watching would end up at a hastily formed company whose principals hid behind a corporate veil. “I didn’t know anything about it until I read your story,” the mayor said [...]
The sky isn’t the limit when Mayor Bloomberg tries to balance the budget. He proposed a sales tax on airplane fuel yesterday as part of his spending plan for the 2011 fiscal year, a move that could mean the cost of flying will soar. Drivers weren’t spared either – parking fees in Manhattan will jump [...]
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday he has “no plans” to run for president and insisted that hiring Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former media strategist is not a step toward a future White House bid. But the billionaire Republican-turned-independent appeared to enjoy the speculation when asked about the political implications of Howard Wolfson joining his [...]
City officials made their way up to Albany Monday to express what they call targeted, disproportionate cuts in state aid that could lead to massive layoffs. Testifying before the state legislature at a joint budget hearing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Governor David Paterson’s proposed budget is not fair to New York City residents. Bloomberg said [...]
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will endorse Michael Bloomberg for re-election at an event scheduled for Borough Hall on Thursday morning, City Hall has learned. The details were finalized earlier this week. Markowitz’s decision to again cross party lines—he was one of the highest-profile Democrats to endorse Bloomberg’s 2005 re-election—comes after years of aligning himself [...]
