Mayor Bloomberg may say it’s “almost impossible” for NYPD officers to fix tickets, but it seems that internal investigators and a Bronx grand jury would disagree: according to reports by confidential sources, up to 400 police officers may be faced with criminal or disciplinary charges for doing just that.
The story, though still burgeoning, Read More
State education commissioner David Steiner has granted Dennis Walcott the waiver that he needed to officially assume the post of New York City schools chancellor.
The waiver allows Walcott to take the job despite the fact that he is not a licensed superintendant. Cathie Black received the same waiver before she stepped up to the Read More
A handful of discontented Democrats gathered on the steps of City Hall today to blast the $38 billion budget cut, which they called “draconian” and “morally wrong.”
“The Republicans’ proposed budget cuts for the fiscal years 2011 and 2012 are the most radical I’ve ever seen,” said Jerrold Nadler, who was joined by Anthony Read More
Children’s Aid Society CEO Richard Buery and Councilwoman Annabel Palma have stepped up to defend John Mattingly, Commissioner of the Administration for Children’s Services, who has recently been widely criticized following the death of a four-year-old girl under his agency’s supervision.
Marchella Pierce died last September of child abuse syndrome, and the both the ACS Read More
City Councilman Oliver Koppell called today for ACS Commissioner John Mattingly to step down from his post following the death of a four-year-old girl, Marchella Pierce, who was supposed to be under the agency’s supervision.
Pierce died last September of child abuse syndrome, and also suffered acute drug poisoning, malnutrition, and blunt impact injuries. Both Read More
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy announced today that he will not seek a third term this November, and turned over the entirety of his $4 million campaign account to the district attorney’s office. This appears to be Levy’s answer to a 16-month investigation conducted by the Government Corruption Bureau into the county executive’s fundraising. Read More
When Carolyn Maloney finally got a word in after her press conference this morning, she added her voice to the chorus of New York congressmen criticizing President Obama’s handling of the military intervention in Libya.
Maloney had summoned the press to the City Hall steps to discuss Republican efforts to terminate federal foreclosure-avoidance programs, but Read More
That sound byte is beginning to feel familiar.
In absence (homage, really) of the New York Times’ On Language, here’s a little research I did into the sudden popularity of “New York is not Wisconsin”–and exactly who said it first.
1:49 p.m., March 3, 2011-Senate Democratic Leader John L. Sampson published a statement Read More
New York City mayoral race: here we go again, with breakdown services for the cast of characters courtesy of HuffPo.
Political consultant James Carville is shilling for Miracle Whip.
Libya is no longer a member of the Human Rights Council, which sort of makes sense given the whole massacre of protesters thing. Read More
Crisis averted: it looks like a potential collision between Governor Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Democrats over the Medicaid redesign proposal may not happen, after all.
Speaker Sheldon Silver has released a statement in support of the plan, and Assemblyman Richard Gottfried–the proposal’s most outspoken opponent thus far–has reconsidered his position, and now says that he Read More
