City aiming to burn us again on water
April 11, 2008
Get ready to swallow another soaking increase in water rates.
The city’s Water Board is set to propose a 14.5% rate hike Friday for the new fiscal year, which starts July 1.
If approved after public hearings, it would drain a collective $290 million from 825,000 ratepayers.
The Water Board, which is charged with raising the money to [...]
City scales back plan to put more fruit, vegetable vendors in poor areas
February 22, 2008
The city has scaled back its plan to put more fruit and vegetable vendors in poor neighborhoods after a high-pressure campaign by bodega and market owners nearly killed the idea.
City Council members were balking at signing off on the “green cart” legislation, which would have created 1,500 special licenses for street vendors to sell healthy [...]
Comptroller Thompson Seeks Transparency From IDA
January 23, 2008
City Comptroller William Thompson Jr. is seeking greater transparency and accountability from the city’s Industrial Development Agency, which provides billions of dollars in tax subsidies to help stoke economic development in New York City.
In a letter sent to the deputy mayor for economic development, Robert Lieber, Mr. Thompson said that there is “concern as to [...]
Police Union Seeks To Shut a College Loans Program
January 16, 2008
The union that represents police officers is asking the city to shut down two programs that help rookie officers pay off college loans and the costs of uniforms.
The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association contends that the programs — one that provides officers with money to pay back college loans and another that helps rookies pay for uniforms [...]
Lobbyists fight for relicensing of controversial nuclear plant
January 11, 2008
ALBANY, N.Y. - New Yorkers and state Legislators are being hit with a multimillion dollar lobbying campaign by the owner of two of New York’s nuclear plants as one of the facilities near New York City faces relicensing opposed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Entergy Nuclear Northeast will spend millions on radio and print ads and a [...]
Ethics board seeks Spitzer aide’s diary in probe
January 11, 2008
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s ethics board will seek the full diary and notes of a former aide to Gov. Eliot Spitzer covering months when the administration was accused of political dirty tricks against Senate Republican leader Joseph Bruno.
On Friday, the former aide, Darren Dopp, returned to the state Capitol complex for the first [...]
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