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Arts
- September'03 - A National Theater at Ground Zero
- August '03 - Lessons from Lincoln Center for The World Trade Center Cultural Center
- July '03 - Arts Education
- June '03 - A Downtown Cultural District Takes Shape
- May '03 - Budget Battles In The Arts
- April '03 - Cultural Diplomacy
- March '03 - The Musicians' Strike
- February '03 - Who Needs Art Criticism?
- January '03 - The Cultural Economy
- December '02 - New Limits On Artistic Expression
- November '02 - Artists' Visas
- October '02 - Artists And Health Insurance
- 9/11/02 Special - Building Community
- September '02 - The Mostly Mozart Strike: Music, Money and Maybe Better Art
- August '02 - The Arts and Albany
- July '02 - Corporate Giving
- June '02 - Hollywood East?
- May '02 - Culture and the World Trade Center Site
- April '02 - Collaborations
- March '02 - Funding And The Arts
- February '02 - Outlook From City Hall
- January '02 - Epic: An Experiment In Arts Education
- December '01 - Flailing After 9/11
- November '01 - Culture Counts
- September '01 - Heart of Brooklyn
- June '01 - Budget Shenanigans
- May '01 - Arts budget
- February '01 - Indecent: The New Ruckus at the Brooklyn Museum
- January '01 - The Governor's Proposed Cut in the Budget for the Arts
- Nov-Dec '00 - Making Art Matter: A Plan to Redesign the Department of Cultural Affairs
- October '00 - Election Special--The Arts are Apple Pie in New York, But The Candidates Have Been Silent on Specifics
- September '00 - Has New York Become the Art of the Impossible for Young Artists?
- August '00 - Funds for the Arts Go Up, but Remain Unfair
- July '00 - Art for Politics: The Museum of Modern Art Strike
- June '00 - Cattle Call: Summer Stampede Set for the Boroughs
- May '00 - Board of Education Hosts Student Performers
- April '00 - "Sensation", the Sequel
- March '00 - Darkhorses Win International Competition for TKTS Booth
- January '00 - "Sensation" Ruling
- December '99 - "Sensation" Debate
- November '99 - No Loft Lost
- October '03 - Parents Last? Also: The Lower East Side, Poor But Not Broken
- September '03 - A Report On Violent Teen Relationships
- August '03 - School Lunch Lack; Fixing Diesel-Fueled School Buses
- July '03 - Summer Youth Employment Program . . . Indicators of Child Well Being. . . Poverty Among Asian American Children
- June '03 - School Buses Can Be Dangerous to Kids' Health
- May '03 - Asthma; Infant Mortality; Recruiting Foster Parents
- April '03 - Talking To Kids About War
- June '02 - Kids And The Economy
- April '02 - Alternative Juvenile Court
- Nov '01 - Children's Services
- Oct '01 - Child Health Plus
- July '01 - Law Guardians for Children
- June '01 - Summer Jobs Threatened
- May '01 - Foster Children Still at Risk?
- April '01 - Child care
- March '01 - Attorneys for the parents
- February '01 - Fostering Writers
- January '01 - The Governor's Budget
- Nov-Dec '00 - National Survey on Child Poverty
- October '00 - Election Special--Support for Children . . . In Theory
- September '00 - In The News: The Teachers' Contract
- August '00 - The Party Platforms
- July '00 - NYC's New Budget and Kids
- June '00 - Family Court Fiasco
- May '00 - Elian Gonzalez: Whatever Happened to Legal Precedent?
- April '00 - Marisol Update: Prospects are Grim
- March '00 - Kids In Prison
- January '00 - State of the State
- December '99 - Private Child Welfare Agenices
- November '99 - Better Late Than Never
- October'03 - Bias Violence On Staten Island
- September '03 - Employing Non-Citizens
- August '03 - The Harvey Milk School
- July '03 - Gay Rights Advances
- June '03 - Reactions to Police Killings of Unarmed Black New Yorkers. Also: Push to Repeal Patriot Act; Bishop Paul Moore
- May '03- Anti-Bullying Bills. Also: Push To Post Human Rights; Same-Sex Partner As Legal Spouse
- April '03 - New York Coalition Formed to Defend the Bill of Rights
- March '03 - Restricting Demonstrations
- February '03 - Controversy at the Human Right Commission
- January '03 - State Gay Rights Bill
- December '02 - Co-Op Boards
- November '02 - New Commissioners
- October '02 - Discrimination at Brooklyn Eatery
- 9/11/02 Special - Civil Liberties since 9/11. Also: Vacant seats on the human rights commission; the new local about same-sex marriages.
- August '02 - Feminist Summit
- July '02 - The State and Human Rights
- June '02 - The Disabled
- May '02 - Gay Scapegoating; Also, Transgender Rights Bill Passes
- April '02 - The New Human Rights Commissioner
- March '02 - Trying To Reverse the Decline Of The Human Rights Commission; Louima Convictions Overturned; The Death Of Sylvia Rivera
- February '02 - St. Patrick's Day Parade
- January '02 - The Civil Rights Agendas in 2002
- October '01 - Under Assault And On The Ballot
- September '01 - Asian New Yorkers
- August '01 - Anti-Catholicism
- July '01 - Transgender Rights
- October'03 - The Foundation Fundraising Blues
- August '03 - The Death of the Community Reinvestment Act
- July '03 - The Black Organizer Blues
- June'03 - Trade Union/Public Housing Alliance; Reaction to Rezoning Of Brooklyn Waterfront; New Neighborhood Planning
- May '03 - Legislating NIMBY
- April '03 - BAM And Its Cultural District
- October '03 - The Racial Profiling Settlement
- July '03 - Murder in City Hall
- June '03 - Things Go Seriously Wrong: Police Issue Report On Harlem Raid, Lemrick Nelson Gets Off Lightly, Murder Is Up Again. Also: Police Spying
- May '03 - Murder and Rape On The Rise; A Look At Nightclub Mayhem
- April '03 - The 9/11 Killer; The Public Hearings On 9/11; Moynihan On Government Secrecy
- March '03 - The Anti-War Protest And The Police
- February '03 - The District Attorney vs. the Police
- January '03 - Police Spying. Also: Christmas Clemencies
- December '02 - Death Sentence For Wendy’s Massacre; Central Park Jogger Case Continues
- November '02 - Old Issues Are New Again: Parole, Central Park Jogger Case, Rape
- October '02 - Two Heinous Crimes Unresolved
- 9/11/02 Special - Are New Yorkers Any Safer?
- September '02 - Police Pay: What's Fair?
- August '02 - Capital Punishment, Parole, And More
- July '02 - Drug Law Reform Failed Again
- June '02 - Operation Spotlight, etc.
- May '02 - Back To The Bad Old Days?
- April '02 - Aiming High-Tech, Ivy Recruitment
- March '02 - Cutbacks And Checkpoints
- February '02 - Crown Heights
- January '02 - Crime Still Declines, But Why, And Will It Continue?
- December '01 - New And Old Police Commissioner Ray Kelly
- November '01 - Police Vs. Fire
- October '01 - Making New York Safer, Not Slower and Poorer
- September '01 - Security
- August '01 - Jailing Demonstrators. Also: Police- Community Relations
- July '01 - Police Potpourri: Murder, Drag Racing Down; Mayor's Dander Up; Desk Appearance Tickets Disappear; Council Speaker Swept In A Sweep; Condor Defended
- June '01 - Marijuana
- May '01 - Sanctioning Police Malpractice
- April '01 - Presidential Pardons
- March '01 - Comissioner Bernard Kerik and the three priorities
- February '01 - Lessons and Legacy of Amadou Diallo
- Nov-Dec '00 - School safety
- October '00 - Election Special: Who's Tougher on Crime?
- September '00 - In the News: Kerik's Recipe for Success
- August '00 - National Night Out and Community Policing
- July '00 - Red Hook Community Justice Center
- June '00 - NYPD vs. Civil Rights Commission
- May '00 - Stop-and-Frisk Searches
- April '00 - Operation Condor
- March '00 - DNA Redux
- January '00 - Repeat Offenders
- December '99 - City Journal
- November '99 - What Goes In Must Come Out
- September'03 - Back To (Public and Private) School
- August'03 - Counting Drop-Outs
- July '03 - The Vanishing Jews
- June '03 - The Affluent Of Manhattan
- May '03 - How Different Is New York City From The United States?
- April '03 - The Poor In New York City
- March '03 - Eight Million New Yorkers? Don't Count On It
- February '03 - Does Archie Bunker Still Live in Queens?
- January '03 - Is There Still A New York Metropolis?
- December '02 - City of The Foreign-Born
- November '02 - Can The US Live Without Race?
- October '02 - New York's Declining Ethnics
- 9/11/02 Special - A Demographic Portrait Of The Victims In 10048
- August '02 - Manhattan Boom
- July '02 - GOP Senate Majority Repeals Census 2000
- June '02 - Changing New York City
- May '02 - The Census Bureau's Bad Estimates
- April '02 - The Boom 1990's?
- March '02 - Segregation
- Febuary '02 - Non-Legal Immigrants
- January '02 - Counting Muslims
- September '01 - The Arab Americans In Our Midst
- August '01 - A White City Council
- July '01 - Counting Gay New York
- June '01 - Redistricting
- May '01 - Politics And The Undercount
- April '01 - False Facts About Census 2000
- March '01 - Eight Million New Yorkers!
- February '01 - Redefining Race
- January '01 - Census Bureau Finds 830,000 "Extra" New Yorkers
- Nov-Dec '00 - The Census
- June '00 - Census Slackers
- May '00 - New Vacancy Survey Data
- March '00 - Welfare Reform's Aftermath
- January '00 - Looking Ahead
- December '99 - NYC's Latest Figures
- November '99 - Albanian Immigrants
- October '03 - Class Size Limited By Law?
- September '03 - Judging School Reform
- August '03 - High School Push Outs
- July '03 - Gearing Up For The Changes
- June '03 - The School-Funding Victory
- June '03 - Mayor's Education Plan Challenged; Also: School-Funding Case Continues
- May '03 - Proposed Changes In Special Education
- April '03 - Making The "List"; Also: Opportunities For Activism
- March '03 - The Governor's Proposed Budget And Its Effect On NYC Schools
- February '03 - Shaking Up the School System
- January '03 - The Policy, But Not The Practice, Of “Inclusion”
- December '02 - School Cuts
- November '02 - No Child Left Behind
- October '02 - Chancellor Klein So Far
- September '02 - Chancellor Klein's Right-Hand Woman: Who is Diana Lam?
- August '02 - The New Chancellor
- July '02 - Albany's Sway Over City Schools
- June '02 - School Deals Near
- May '02 - Community School Boards' Uncertain Future
- April '02 - To Test or Not To Test?
- March '02 - Mayoral Control
- February '02 - Pre-K in Peril; Also, School Board Elections Postponed; A New Board of Ed Hotline
- January '02 - Will 2002 Be A Good Year For Education?
- December '01 - Special Education
- November '01 - School Funding After 9-11
- October '01 - The Students From Ground Zero
- September '01 - Back To Budget Cuts
- August '01 - Community-Based Organizations And The Schools
- July '01 - Non-profits That Help With Schooling
- June '01 - Budget Decrease
- May '01 - No Contract = No Respect
- April '01 - Accountability
- March '01 - Dropping Out
- February '01 - The Edison Schools Controversy
- January '01 - The School Funding Victory
- Nov-Dec '00 - Where to Get Information On Individual Schools
- October '00 - Election Special--Accountability, School Funding, and Privatization
- September '00 - Despite Some Success, Many Still Question Value of Summer School
- August '00 - End Nearing for School-Funding Lawsuit
- July '00 - What Do The Tests Test?
- June '00 - Chancellor Levy Tackles Teacher Quality
- May '00 - Levy to Stay
- April '00 - Summer School Stand-off
- March '00 - Chancellor Levy's First Month
- February '00 - Out with the Old, in with the New
- January '00 - Agreement on New Principals' Contract
- December '99 - Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York State
- November '99 - Summer School
- September'03 - The Alarming Report About The EPA’s Response To 9/11
- August '03- Environmental Impact of Rebuilding Lower Manhattan
- July '03 - Recycling Revived
- June '03 - Suburban Sprawl, City Troubles
- May '03 - A Letter About Lead Poisoning
- April '03 - Recycling Hangs Tough
- March '03 - The City's New Spending Plan For The Environment
- February '03 - New Plan to Safeguard New York's Water Supply
- January '03 - The Battles Of 2003
- December '02 - The Highs And Lows Of 2002
- November'02 - The Elections and New York's Environment
- October '02 - 9/11 and the Environment: The Government Response
- 9/11/02 Special - An Unprecedented Attack On New York's Environment
- August '02 - Jamaica bay
- July '02 - Four Environmental Issues That Albany Could Solve
- June '02 - Community Gardens
- May '02 - Air Quality At Ground Zero
- April '02 - Earth Day
- March '02 - The City Council And The Environment
- February '02 - The High Line. A Ruling On Soot.
- January '02 - Drought Watch
- December '01 - Soot Fight
- November '01 - Bloomberg, Budding Environmentalist?
- September '01 - The Myth Of The Paperless Office
- August '01 - Clean Water In Three Acts
- July '01 - Walkways And Greenways
- June '01 - Gowanus Canal
- May '01 - Reclaiming Fresh Kills
- April '01 - After Fresh Kills
- March '01 - Garbage Grinders
- February '01 - Underground Storage Tanks
- January '01 - Turbine Turmoil
- Nov-Dec '00 - In The News: Bus Depots and Racism. Also: Global Warming and NYC
- October '00 - Special Election Issue--Air, Water, Open Space, And Global Warming
- September '00 - One program upstate to help save the city's water
- August '00 - Recycling and the "SWABS"
- July '00 - Banning Chlorpyrifos Pesticides
- June '00 - Times Square goes Green
- May '00 - Beetle Mania
- April '00 - West Nile Virus, Round II
- March '00 - Community Garden Razed
- February '00 - South Bronx Waterfront?
- January '00 - Global Warming and NYC
- December '99 - Asthma Rates Through the Roof
- November '99 - Have Trash, Will Travel
- October'03 - Shrinking Accountability: Proposed Changes To The Mayor's Management
Report
September'03 - Three Actions By Governor Pataki That Dim City Budget Prospects - August '03 - The Fiscal Monitors Assess The Budget
- July '03 - Summing Up the 2004 Budget; Looking Ahead in Education
- June '03 - The City Budget: Avoiding Fiscal Meltdown
- May '03 - The MTA's Funny Numbers And Smug Attitude
- April '03 - Renters and The New Property Tax Hikes
- March '03 - Uncertain Billions In Mayor's Budget Plan
- February '03 - Preliminary Budget Seeks to Avoid Spending Cuts
- January '03 - Billion Dollar Questions About Next Year's Budget
- December '02 - The $1.7 Billion Tax Hike And Other "Budget Modifications"
- November '02 - The Property Tax Proposal
- October '02 - The Unknown Contracts
- 9/11/02 Special - Tricks of the Budget Bosses -- In Education, The Deficit Problem, And Downtown Redevelopment
- August '02 - Tax Breaks
- July '02 - The Easy Budget Road
- June '02 - Same Old Budget Process
- May '02 - David Dinkins' Budget Was Better
- April '02 - Mortgaging The City's Future
- March '02 - The Larger Property Tax Problem
- February '02 - New Budget Actors, But No Budget Play
- December '01 - The Ugly Budget Crisis Ahead
- November '01 - Welcome To The Budget Crisis
- October '01 - The Impact of Terrorism on New York City Finances
- July '01 - Debt Service Burden
- June '01 - The New Budget: Not A Pretty Sight
- May '01 - The Art Of Revenue Projections
- April '01 - Taxation with an Explanation
- January '01 - The Mayor's Legacy: The Economy, "Productivity Gains," The Airports
- Oct-Nov '00 - Election Special--The bond act, debt, and capital spending.
- September '00 - A New Dictum in Politics: All Tax Cuts Are Local
- August '00 - The Capital Budget
- July '00 - The City Budget
- May '00 - Albany Mega-Deal
- April '00 - Budget Agreement?
- March '00 - Budgets, Baby!
- December '99 - Passed Budget Gets Failing Grade
- November '99 - Charter on Budget
- October'03 - A Push For A National Health Service?
- September '03 - World Trade Center Health Registry
- August '03 - Obesity
- July '03 - Court Overturns Current Lead-Paint Law
- June '03 - How the 2004 Budget Is Shaking Out for Health Care
- May '03 - Survey of Emotional Distress
- April '03 - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
- March '03 - Diabetes
- February '03 - Health Care Changes Could Hurt New York
- January '03 - Smallpox Vaccine
- December '02 - Public Health Cuts
- November '02 - The Brooklyn Mental Health Court
- October '02 - Syphilis
- 9/11/02 Special - Coping With 9/11
- August '02 - AIDS 2002
- July '02 - How Albany Matters In Health
- June '02 - Extreme Weather And Your Health
- April '02 - Disaster Relief Medicaid
- March '02 - Mammograms
- February '02 - Abortion Training
- January '02 - The New Health Commissioner
- November '01 - Mental Health Research
- September '01 - Mandatory Medicaid Managed Health Care
- August '01 - Health Web Sites
- July '01 - AIDS; Ambulances; and Summer Sunblock (to avoid aging and skin cancer)
- June '01 - Child Health Care Clinic Closings
- May '01 - Hep C
- April '01 - The Uninsured
- March '01 - DARE Doesn't Work
- February '01 - Children's Mental Health
- Nov-Dec '00 - The Flu
- October '00 - Election Special--Health Care
- September '00 - West Nile Continues
- August '00 - The West Nile Virus
- July '00 - The State of New York City's Health Care System
- October '03 - More Dilapidated Housing, Less Code Enforcement
- September '03 - Abandonment In 2003
- August '03 -The State Of Bloomberg’s Affordable Housing Plan
- July '03 - New Housing Laws
- June '03 - The Fate Of Rent Regulation
- May '03 - Are Higher Rent Increases Justified By Rising Costs
- April '03 - Rent Regulation Awaits Its Fate
- March '03 - The State Of NYC Housing, According To The Census Bureau
- February '03 - City Takes New Approaches to Solving Homeless Problem
- January '03 - Homeowner Troubles
- December '02 - The Mayor’s New Housing Plan
- November '02 - Possible Rise In Property Taxes (i.e. Rents); Rise In Homelessness
- October '02 - The Poor CAN Be Homeowners; Also: Housing And Rebuilding Downtown
- September '02 - The Community Garden Settlement; Widening Gap Between Rents and Wages
- 9/11/02 Special - Lower Rents, But More Homelessness, Fewer Vacancies, Canceled Plans For New Affordable Housing
- August '02 - Predatory Lending Bill
- July '02 - The Urstadt Law: How Albany Controls NYC Rents
- June '02 - Terror and Tenants
- May '02 - New Battles for Rent Regulation
- April '02 - Homeownership, And Mortgage Defaults, On The Rise
- March '02 - Housing Works and Harlem; Also: Bribery Scandal. New Buildings Commissioner
- February '02 - The Working Families Preference In Public Housing
- January '02 - The Right To Sleep On The Streets. Bloomberg's "New" Appointments. Budget Allocations
- December '01 - Landlords And Lead Poisoning
- November '01 - The Aftershocks
- September '01 - Homeless After 9/11
- August '01 - The Housing Code
- July '01 - Deregulation On The Rise
- June '01 - Roommates
- May '01 - Rent Guidelines Board
- April '01 - Predatory Lending
- March '01 - New Ownership Program For Neglected Apartment Buildings
- February '01 - Seeking Shelter: The Homeless Once Again
- January '01 - The State Of Housing: The Mayor's Proposals. Also: The New Housing Code. The New Required Fire Safety Poster. Battery Park Betrayal
- Nov-Dec '00 - 2001 Federal Contribution to New York's Housing Needs Highest in 20 Years
- October '00 - Election Special-Housing AND Politics Are Local
- September '00 - Mold. Plus Housing news bits
- August '00 - The 30-Year War For New Housing
- July '00 - The Effect of the Rent Increases. Two Views
- June '00 - News Round-Up
- April '00 - News Round-Up
- March '00 - News Round-Up
- February '00 - News Round-Up
- January '00 - Housing Shorts
- December '99 - Housing Shorts
- November '99 - Housing Shorts
- October'03 - A New Executive Order: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- September '03 - New Studies About Immigrants
- August '03 - Executive Order 34 Revisited
- July '03 - Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
- June '03 - Trying To Protect Undocumented Immigrants
- May '03 - Immigrant Soldiers
- April '03 - New Rule For Political Asylum Seekers
- March '03 - Tracking Foreign Students
- February '03 - The Special Registration Program
- December '02 - Requiem For The INS
- November '02 - Local Police And Immigration Law
- October '02 - Amnesty For Undocumented Immigrants
- September '02 - Should Legal Immigrants Be Allowed to Vote?
- August '02 - Regents Exams Rule, Immigrant Students Drop Out
- July '02 - Political Asylum For Gay Immigrants
- June '02 - Welfare Reform and Immigrants
- May '02 - The Split-Up of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
- April '02 - The Immigrant Agenda
- March '02 - Language Assistance
- February '02 - Chinatown Tries to Recover
- January '02 - City University Hikes Tuition For Undocumented Immigrants
- December '01 - The "Voluntary" Interviews
- October '01 - The Struggle For Relief Among The Undocumented
- August '01 - The Anti Anti-Immigrant Movement
- July '01 - High-achieving students, but undocumented immigrants
- June '01 - Census 2000 And The New Diversity
- May '01 - The Immigrant Vote
- April'01 - English Classes
- March '01 - When immigrants are sick and uninsured
- February '01 - LIFE and real life
- September '03 - Noise Pollution: A City Planning Problem
- August '03 - The Lesson Of The Blackout Is NOT More Power Plants
- July '03 - Greenpoint/Williamsburg Zoning Changes
- June '03 - "As-of-Right" Development: An Invitation to Ethical Breaches?
- May'03 - Zoning To Kill Manufacturing, and the Assault on Greenpoint
- April '03 - Zoning To Protect Manufacturing
- March '03 - New York City's Big Planning Projects: Avoiding the Public?
- February '03 - Midtown West Side Story: A Conversation With Robert Moses
- January '03 - Lots Of New Plans; Any New Visions?
- December '02 - Both A Bridge, And A Government, In Need Of Fixing
- November '02 - Overbuilding By Community Facilities (Hospitals, Churches, Universities, Etc.)
- October '02 - Inclusionary Zoning: A Tool for Low- Income Housing
- 9/11/02 Special - The Swap, The Lease, The Governor, The Olympics, The Rest Of The City
- September '02 - Community Planning Boards
- August '02 - Why the Port Authority Does Not Own The Airports Already
- July '02 - Brownfields And Albany
- June '02 - Olympic Planning
- May '02 - Mixed Use vs. Office Monoculture
- March '02 - Rebuilding Can Become A Lesson In Diversity And Democracy
- December '01 - The Make-Up Of The Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corporation
- November '01 - Three Alternatives To An Independent Authority for Lower Manhattan
- October '01 - Planning Traffic
- August '01 - Lessons From Seattle on Community Planning
- July '01 - Zoning Is Not Enough
- June '01 - Community Planning
- March '01 - The Landmark Loophole: How Protected Structures Can Still Face Demolition
- February '01 - The Plaza Bonus: Is it good policy?
- January '01 - Why Zoning Reform IS Important
- Nov-Dec '00 - In the News: The Death of Zoning Reform?
- October '00 - Election Special-Zoning, Planning, Housing, the Olympics, the Waterfront
- September '00 - How Race and Poverty Affect Land Use Decisions
- July '00 - Up And Down
- June '00 - Zoning Saga
- May '00 - Brooklyn Bridge Park
- April '00 - A Return to Thinking Big?
- March '00 - Governor's Island
- February '00 - Real Estate Battle on the East Side
- January '00 - Commissioner Rose's Proposals
- December '99 - The Waterfront
- November '99 - New Homes in New York
- October '03 - A New Executive Order: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- September'03 - Challenging A Test The Teachers Must Take
- July '03 - When To End A Child's Life Support
- June '03 - Prosecuting The Batterer Without The Victim's Approval
- May '03- Litigation Over World Trade Center Clean-Up Payments
- April '03 - Mental Health Care For Released Inmates
- March '03 - Police Misconduct Cases - Prosecuted By Civilians, But Still Judged By Police
- February '03 - Do Welfare Workers Deserve Workplace Protection?
- March '02 - Low Fees For Court-Appointed Attorneys
- February '02 - The New Corporation Counsel
- October '01 - Lobbyists And Their Clients
- July '01 - Lincoln Center For The Arts, Not For Free Speech
- June '01 - Queens Quibbles: Queen Catherine, The Slave Trade and a Litigious Sculptor
- April '01 - Metro Card Con
- March '01 - AIDS and the City's Legal Obligation
- February '01 - Love and let love
- January '01 - In The News: Defrauding the Transit Authority
- Nov-Dec '00 - When Lawyers Have Unions: The Case of Legal Aid and Its Fight with the Mayor
- Sept-Oct '00 - Ethics Rebuke of Safir's Oscar Trip
- August '00 - Civil banishment and a gang-run prostitution ring
- July '00 - The Nude Photo Shoot and the Federal Courts
- June '00 - Plaintiffs in racial profiling case get highly sensitive police personnel files
- May '00 - City Parade-Permitting Program to Go on Trial
- April '00 - Ferrets - pet or public health menace?
- January '00 - Giuliani lets feisty AIDS group get under his skin
- December '99 - Whistleblowing--is it safe?
- November '99 - Sex in the City
- September'03 - Adopt-A-Park
- August '03 - New Threat From Asian Long-Horned Beetle. Also: Van Cortlandt Park And The Water Filtration Plant
- July '03 - How Park Improvements Affect Community Real Estate Values
- June '03 - Van Cortlandt Park And The Filtration Plant
- May '03 - Private Report Card on Smaller Parks
- April '03 - Reviving the Filtration Plant Underneath Van Cortlandt Park
- March '03 - Report Card On The Parks
- February '03 - Turning Parkways Into Parks? Turning Trees Into Sports Fields?
- January '03 - Crime, Christo and Car-free
- December '02 - High Line Reversal
- November '02 - Budget cuts and the parks
- October '02 - State Protections For City Parkland
- 9/11/02 Special - The Rediscovery Of The City's Parks
- August '02 - Park Escapes
- July '02 - State Funding For City Parks
- June '02 - Not A Swimmer's Paradise
- May '02 - Community Gardens; Prospect Park's Audubon Center; Green Light for the Brooklyn Bridge Park
- April '02 - Remembering 9/11. Governors Island. The Beetles.
- March '02 - A Central Park Of Art, Beetles and Cars
- February '02 - The New Parks Chief; Also, Greenways Are Good
- January '02 - A New Policy Towards Parks?
- December '01 - Outlook in 2002; Unfinished Business From the Giuliani Era
- November '01 - Open Spaces; A Million Daffodil Memorial
- October '01 - Campaign Promises For Parks In Light Of 9/11
- September '01 - Drawn To The Parks
- August '01 - Governors Island, Community Gardens, Mayors Who Actually Care About Parks
- July '01 - Golf Course at Ferry Point Park
- June '01 - Parks in the budget
- May '01 - Community Gardens Endangered Still. Also: Preserve Bloomingdale Woods
- April '01 - New York As Oasis: OASIS mapping, Bloomingdale Woods, Governors Island Tours
- March '01 - Organizing for More Green
- February '01 - In the News: Playing hardball in Bloomingdale Woods
- January '01 - In the News: Golf Clubbing Bronx Residents? Also: When Stadiums Win, Do Parks Lose?
- Nov-Dec '00 - Fees for Parks. Also: Making Parks Political
- October '00 - Election Special--The Parks And The Pols
- September '00 - Garbage Out, Parks In; Also, rating New York City's parks against 24 other cities
- August '00 - Final Design For A Brooklyn Waterfront Park. Also: A Good Chance for New Federal Funding for Urban Parks
- July '00 - The War on Beetles
- June '00 - Final Stages of Brooklyn Bridge Park
- May '00 - Protecting community gardens
- April '00 - Finally! The Brooklyn Bridge Park plan
- March '00 - Field of Dreams in Staten Island?
- February '00 - Staten Island's south shore
- January '00 - Baseball field in Brooklyn's Parade Grounds, Part II
- December '99 - Baseball field in Brooklyn's Parade Grounds
- November '99 - New park along the East River
- September '03 - The Gap Between Food Stamp Eligibility and Food Stamp Use
- August '03 - Summertime Unemployment. Also: Kinship Foster Care
- July '03 - Flaws In The Screening Process For Foster Parents
- June '03 - The Mayor's Plan To "Streamline" Social Services
- May '03 - Threatened Change To HIV/AIDS Services
- April '03 - Big Stakes for the Elderly in Budget Battles
- March '03 - Governor's Proposed Budget Bad News For Low-Income New Yorkers
- February '03 - How Welfare Reform Affects People With Disabilities
- January '03 - When Prisoners Come Home
- December '02 - Housing The Mentally Ill
- November '02 - New York City's Permanent Food Emergency
- October '02 - Dead Broke Dads
- 9/11/02 Special - Charity Began At Ground Zero, But Where Will It Wind Up?
- August '02 - Children In No-Parent Families
- July '02 - Albany Matters In Social Services
- June '02 - Welfare Reform, Round Two
- April '02 - Child Welfare and Domestic Violence
- March '02 - Job Training
- February '02 - When The Neighborhood Doesn't Want It
- January '02 - The Limits of Time Limits On Welfare
- December '01 - THE NEEDIEST. Also: City- Wide Task Force On Housing Court Still Alive
- November '01 - A Rocky Season
- October '01 - Administration for Children's Services
- July '01 - Suicide Prevention
- June '01 - AIDS At 20: Frontline STD Clinics
- April '01 - Hanging Out
- March '01 - Welfare Running Out. Also, news of the poor, the old, the disabled, and local boy scouts.
- February '01 - AIDS And The African- American Community; Homeless and Health Care; Immigrants and Emergency Rooms; The Aging and The Rising Bottom Line
- January '01 - In Out Of The Cold: Offering The Homeless A Warm And Safe Place To Sleep
- December '00 - Anti-Violence Project Urges Gays and Lesbians To Take Offense
- Oct-Nov '00 - Election Special-The Missing Social Service Issues
- September '00 - Hunger In New York
- August '00 - A Place for Pregnant Teenagers
- July '00 - Violence and Youth
- June '00 - Home Delivered Meals - and Some Human Contact
- May '00 - AIDS Peril for People of Color
- April '00- Substance Abuse Treatment for the Developmentally Disabled
- February '00 - Community Mental Health
- January '00 - Workplace Dangers for Immigrants
- December '99 - Domestic Violence
- November '99 - Poorer kids have more asthma
- September '03 - Turning Teens Into Techies And Online Activists
- August '03 - The Blackout Via TV; By Phone; On Blogs. Also: Only Days Left To Save .NYC
- July '03 - Blogging And The City
- June '03 - A Plan for NYC Telecommunications
- May '03 - Government-Aided Media Consolidation
- April '03 - Fraud Stalls Wireless Library Project
- March '03 - The Tech Lag In Community Boards
- February '03 - Cell Phone Ban
- January '03 - Putting City Documents Online
- December '02 - Fiber Optics and Obstacles (Verizon)
- November '02 - Fighting Domestic Violence With Technology
- October '02 - NYC Schools as Hi-Tech Hubs
- 9/11/02 Special - A Failure On 9/11, Life-Saving Innovations Afterwards
- August '02 - New York City Goes Wireless
- July '02 - Why Albany Matters in NYC Tech Policy
- June '02 - The Latest on 311, Pay Phone Rate Rollback, Camera Surveillance, Hi-tech Maps, Etc.
- May '02 - Technology and 9/11
- April '02 - The City Council Gets Serious About Tech
- March '02 - From Home To Community (Board). Dot NYC, Increased Cost of Pay Phones, Increased Use Of Cable TV, Decreased Cable Internet Access.
- February '02 - E-Government In NYC
- January '02 - Is Time Warner Cable A Villain?
- November '01 - 10-Digit Dialing
- October '01 - Choosing Your Power
- September '01 - Damage And Restoration To Electricity, Phones, TV
- August '01 - Software -- "Piracy" (Stealing) versus "Open Source" (Freebies)
- July '01 - AOL-Time Warner and High-Speed Access. Also, Cell-Phone Ban
- June '01 - Women and Technology
- May '01 - Privacy on the Internet
- March '01 - Public Participation in Science and Technology Policy
- February '01 - Witness, A Different Kind of Reality TV: Using video and the Internet to document human rights abuses. Also: a new cool map of New York
- January '01 - Phone Frustrations
- December '00 - E-Voting
- Oct-Nov '00 - Election Special-The Real Tech Issues, from Privacy to Copyright to Sales Tax
- September '03 - A Taxi Fare Increase?
- August '03 - Ranking the Subway Lines
- July '03 - New Projects, Same No Money
- June '03 - Budget Cuts In Transportation
- May '03 - Making the MTA Play Fair and Square
- April '03 - Responding To The Terrorist Threat
- March '03 - The Two Dollar Fare
- February '03 - Options For The Fare Increase; Bridge And Tunnel Tolls; Transportation Plans In Lower Manhattan
- January '03 - The (Proposed) Trains To The Planes
- December '02 - No Strike
- December '02 - The Transit Strike
- November '02 - Debating Transportation Priorities For Lower Manhattan
- October '02 - Curb Cuts
- September '02 - The Riders Respond
- August '02 - The Fare Increase
- July '02 - Albany Candidates Mum On Transit
- June '02 - New Questions To Evaluate Old Proposals
- May '02 - The V Line
- April '02 - Blueprint for Transportation Downtown
- March '02 - East River Bridge Tolls?
- February '02 - Rebuilding Transportation
- January '02 - The Other New York Is Doing Better
- December '01 - Bus Rapid Transit
- November '01 - Bloomberg and Transportation
- October '01 - Resilience And Adaptability
- September '01 - Token Booth Closings
- August '01 - Subway Rerouting
- July '01 - Financing Transportation Projects
- June '01 - Traffic Congestion
- May '01 - Learning To Build Again
- April '01 - The Boulevard of Death
- March '01 - Cars Down; Cabs Crashing
- February '01 - In the News: Tolls for Thee
- January '01 - In the News: The Rising Tide
- December '00 - With the bond act dead, what happens now?
- Oct-Nov '00 - Election Special--The Transportation Bond Act
- September '00 - Flight Delays
- August '00 - What's New, What's Cool, What's Hot (Literally) In The Subways
- July '00 - Transit, the State, and the "State of Good Repair"
- June '00 - New Taxis for New York?
- May '00 - Transit around the Region
- February '00 - Bike Fatalities
- January '00 - No Strike
- December '99 - Second Avenue Subway
- November '99 - NYers say MTA plan falls short
- September '03 - Low Voter Turnout
- August '03 - Primary Elections, And The Ballot Proposals For November
- July '03 - Bloomberg’s Plunge In The Polls; Also: Committee On Vacancies
- June '03 - Voting Rights Act
- April '03 - The Latest On Term Limits
- March '03 - The Hispanic Vote; Also, New Charter Commission For Non-Partisan Elections
- February '03 - Special Elections
- January '03 - Nonpartisan Elections And Charter Revision
- November '02 - Winning Ballot Proposal
- October '02 - The Help America Vote Act -- The Good News and Bad News For NYC
- 9/11/02 Special - Altering The Political Landscape
- September '02 - Cuomo Walks
- August '02 - How You Can Tell How They're Doing
- July '02 - State Campaign Finance Reports
- June '02 - No To Nonpartisan Elections
- May '02 - Scandals And Voters
- April '02 - The New Voter Identification Requirement
- January '02 - Changes Ahead?
- December '01 - The Remarkable Victory
- November '01 - Will Something Be Done About the Board of Elections?
- October '01 - Mayoral Election
- September '01 - A Plea For Same-Day Voter Registration
- August '01 - What Is Wrong With The Board Of Elections
- July '01 - Campaign Finance
- June '01 - Sharpton's Endorsement
- April '01 - Michael Bloomberg and the Legacy of Self-Financed Candidates
- March '01 - Right for All the Wrong Reasons
- February '01 - It's Still Broken
- January '01 - Our One-Party Town
- December '00 - What Can We Do To Fix This -- and Should We?
- Oct-Nov '00 - Election Special--Campaign Finance: In Need of Reforms?
- September '00 - The Primaries
- August '00 - The Democratic National Convention
- August '00 - The Republican National Convention
- July '00 - Advice for Taming the Dog Days of Summer
- July '00 - Money Matters
- June '00 - The Lazio Effect
- May '00 - News Round-Up
- April '00 - Money Train
- December '99 - News Round-Up
- November '99 - Waiting for a sign
- September '03 - Staten Island Awaits Its Turn
- August '03 - Will The Bountiful Triangle Return?
- July '03 - The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway -- A Thin Green Line
- June '03 - Rezoning the Williamsburg and Greenpoint Waterfronts
- May'03 - Bickering May Lose Us Bucks
- April '03 - Hunts Points Waterfront Dreams
- March '03 - Bringing Sand to the Brooklyn Beach
- February '03 - Big-Boxed In on the Waterfront
- November '02 - Return of the Wooden Boats
- October '02 - Baykeeper
- August '02 - Wakes
- July '02 - Change and Conflict on the Brooklyn Waterfront
- May '02 - Harbor (in)Security. Also: Harbor Events
- April '02 - A Super Model for New York Harbor
- March '02 - Bronx River Rising
- February '02 - New Attention From City Hall
- January '02 - The Waters Of The Harbor
- November '01 - Governors Island And The United Nations
- September '01 - Moving Freight On Water
- July '01 - Brooklyn Navy Yard
- June '01 - Blessing The Fleet
- May '01 - In Defense of the Port
- April '01 - Who Owns the "578 Miles" of Waterfront, and How Are They Being Used?
- March '01 - Ferries
- February '01 - Parks and Parking Along the Hudson
- January '01 - The Missing Marshes of Jamaica Bay
- December '00 - Light at the End of the Rail Tunnel?
- Oct-Nov '00 - Election Special--The Major Local Issues, from dredging to access
- September '00 - A Ban on Jet Skis?
- Special - City Beaches: Safe for Swimming?
- July '00 - The City's Crowded Waterways
- June '00 - Trashing the Littoral
- May '00 - Pier Pressure
- April '00 - Waterfront Primer