By Steve Cohen 11/20/08 3:02pm

Food for the Holidays

On November 19 Columbia University and the Manhattan Borough President’s Office held a conference on The Politics of Food. The half-day conference was devoted to one of New York City’s biggest challenges: ensuring that the public has ready access to high-quality food. Speakers included Columbia President Lee Bollinger, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, New York Read More

By Azi Paybarah 9/08/08 6:17pm

Goodbye Metro, Hello Channel 9

Dealing with the (mostly) shrinking local media isn’t easy for press-dependent advocates like Joel Berg of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. After the New York Times announced that the Metro section—which often highlighted poverty cases in New York City—would be folded into national, Berg wrote a letter to the Times publisher pleading Read More