Cuts Burn Fire Department
May 10, 2010
Photo (cc) 2010 jamie_hladky A proposal to slash 20 fire companies from the Fire Department's ranks does more than irk firefighters. It burns them. A crowd of elected officials Last Updated (Friday, March 16, 2012 10:15 AM)
Council, Courts End the 'Tenant Blacklist'
Apr 27, 2010
Photo 2010 Oates Ritthichai The term "blacklisting," usually associated with 1950's McCarthyism, has taken on a new meaning. The blacklisted in 21st century New York have been people applying for apartments Last Updated (Wednesday, June 06, 2012 12:55 PM)
Police Need New Approach to Deal with the Mentaly Ill
Apr 06, 2010
/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/leia/ In 2008, New York City police arrived at the Bedford Stuyvesant home of Iman Morales, a 35-year old man with a psychiatric diagnosis. Distraught and naked, Morales had climbed out Last Updated (Wednesday, January 23, 2013 07:18 AM)
Suits Would Burden Foster Parents, Court Rules
Mar 23, 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/katiecowden/ Jacob Harris was born in 2004, with traces of cocaine, opiates, marijuana and methadone in his body Dutchess County child welfare officials placed him with a foster mother, Diane Sherwood, Last Updated (Wednesday, June 06, 2012 01:43 PM)
Fewer Prisoners, Fewer Prisons?
Mar 17, 2010
CC BY-SA 2.0 The Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate Oneida County. It seems simple. With prison populations declining and crime rates plummeting, Gov. David Paterson has proposed closing four upstate Last Updated (Wednesday, June 06, 2012 01:38 PM)
How to Fix New York's State Police
Mar 05, 2010
billfromesm, Flickr When the New York Times revealed that state troopers had been part of an alleged effort by Gov. David Paterson's office to convince a woman not to Last Updated (Wednesday, June 06, 2012 01:38 PM)
City Emergency Response Team Had Key Skills for Haiti Mission
Feb 11, 2010
U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael O'Halloran New York Task Force 1 search and rescue teams prepares to depart for Haiti. Soon after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Last Updated (Friday, May 25, 2012 11:22 AM)
Teaching and Electioneering Don't Mix, Court Finds
Feb 09, 2010
from photo (cc) flcker/baklein62 Public school teachers have constitutional rights to wear political buttons while in school, according to the United Federation of Teachers. But not according to the United Last Updated (Wednesday, June 06, 2012 01:43 PM)
Court Rejects Bid to Extend Grounds for Divorce in New York
Jan 27, 2010
Forty-nine states in this country recognize "no fault" divorce or allow divorce for "irreconcilable differences." Only New York requires that one party in all contested divorces establish that the other Last Updated (Wednesday, June 06, 2012 11:30 AM)
Courts Consider When a Rioter Stops Rioting
Dec 02, 2009
from photo (cc) Oquendo In the city of parades, the chain of events sparked by the parade that was like no other may finally be ending -- nine years later. The Last Updated (Wednesday, June 06, 2012 01:42 PM) |