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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)