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Issue of the Week
New Year Politics
The extension of term limits uprooted the 2009 political landscape. Or did it? Many incumbents may now face challengers who hope anger over the extension will work to their advantage. Read More Recent Articles: |
Feature Commentaries
Renaming New York's Strait
No waterway belongs to New York City quite the way the East River does. But we've saddled it with a dull and misleading name. Erik Baard suggests an alternative. Read More Recent Articles: |
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Paterson Joins Governors Seeking $1 Trillion
Gov. David Paterson has joined with governors of several other large states to ask the federal government to provide a total of $1 trillion of assistance to all 50 states over two years. The money would go to schools, public works projects and social services as well as tax cuts. The states are in such a serious state, Paterson said, that even $1 trillion will not prevent cuts “Our situation is so dire that even the greatest assistance from the federal government ... will still not alleviate us from the responsibility of some rather severe action,” he said. On Thursday, President-elect Barack Obama is expected to deliver a speech on his proposed economic program. For more see Economy Links in the News.
City Settles Suit Against Commissioner
The city government will pay $225,000 to settle a lawsuit charging the former commissioner of the Department for the Aging with sexual harassment and discrimination, the city’s Law Department said Wednesday. The commissioner, Edwin Méndez-Santiago, had abruptly resigned on Dec. 12. Auritela Santos, who left her job as a secretary at the department in 2007, alleged she had been subjected to sexual remarks and said Méndez-Santiago had sex with subordinates in his office and sent her violent and threatening e-mails when she refused his advances. Neither the city nor Méndez-Santiago admitted any wrongdoing. During Méndez-Santiago's tenure, the administration pushed for a major reorganization of aging programs that many advocacy groups opposed. After Méndez-Santiago resigned, the administration dropped the plans. For more, see City Hall News.
Many Thanks!
... to all of you who contributed to Gotham Gazette's recent fundraising drive and helped put us on the road to Albany. Owing to your generosity and those of other funders, we soon will be providing enhanced coverage of the state capital and how the decisions made there affect all of us here. For those of you who still want to pitch in, please go here to make a tax-deductible contribution. And thank you so much for your support -- particularly in these difficult times.
Federal Stimulus to Help State, A Week to Go, Year-End Break, Murders Up 5 Percent, Send Gotham Gazette to Albany, MTA Details Possible Fare Hikes, complete archive of lead stories.
In the Press
Manslaughter Charges Expected for Rigger of Crane in Deadly Collapse (NY Times)
Contractor Charged at Deutsche Bank Continues to Get Public Money (Daily News)
Hospitals Accused of Medicaid Scam (NY Post)
Laid off in New York: Seven Stories (New York Magazine)
Elections to Fill Council Vacancies Set for Feb. 24 (AM New York)
Police Image Improves But Problems Persist (NY Times)
New Yorkers Owe $13 Billion in Unpaid Taxes (NY Post)
Conviction Overturned on Appeal in 2005 Brooklyn Hate Crime (Gay City News)
Paterson Warns Budget Gap Could Get Bigger (Daily News)
Helicopters Touring Manhattan Skies Prompt Complaints, Concern (NY Post)
Today's Report
New York's Retail Workers
The recent holiday shopping season was a particularly difficult one for stores in New York City but retail workers had already been dealing with low wages and limited benefits, according to a report by the Fiscal Policy Institute. The report, "Low Wages, No Bargain," found that, of the 1.3 million city residents who earn $13 per hour or less, almost one in seven work in retail. More than 44 percent of store workers earn less than $10 hour. (read the full report)
Recent Reports
New York's Retail Workers, Keeping Kids Out of Gangs, Prevailing Wages for Affordable Housing?, Female Homicide Victims, more recent reports.
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- Anne Schwartz on A Federal Stimulus for City Parks
- Linnea Goderstad on Bracing for Tough Times
- Nicholas Dagen Bloom on Private Methods in Public Projects
- Larry Tung on Justice to Go
- Joshua Breitbart on Creative Use of White Space
- Rich Kassel on Obama, Climate Change and New York
- Glenn Pasanen on The Mayor’s Strategy
- Melissa Checker on Greening Harlem
- Anne Schwartz on Street Life

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