The city's graduation rates continue to rise, according to the state education department. Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein announced that for each of the past five years, the rate has risen and now stands at 59 percent. More >>
Good to hear that the District Attorney is going after this guy - corporate greed that causes material harm needs to be punished. I remember when this crane collapsed - it hit the construction site of a new middle school, I think. Imagine if that school had been full of kids More >>
Hiram Monserrate, who was expelled from the state Senate about four weeks ago, wants back in. He's running as a candidate in the special election design to replace him, and unsurprisingly, he's relying on low blows, including inciting homophobia among voters in order to bash his opponent, Jose Peralta. More >>
This is good news for pretty much everyone. I've lived in DC and been to other cities that have these clocks and they're incredibly useful and make the subways a more connected and livable part of the city. More >>
I haven't paid attention to a Superfund case in a long time, so it's interesting to see that the EPA actively looks for the companies responsible for the pollution. Their findings are damning but unsurprising. More >>
David Malpass, a former Reagan administration official, will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand in this fall's Senate race. More >>
Watch out soda-lovers, you might soon be paying almost $0.70 more for a two-liter bottle of bubbly, if Mayor Bloomberg has his way. He's telling the state legislature that a penny-per-ounce tax on soda could help the city avoid drastic cuts to hospitals and schools. More >>
On this week's Two Beers In, we talk about Project Runway, some great new theatre, the MTA's latest proposal to cut service, and what's happening in NYC's public schools. More >>
State Senator Bill Perkins is mad as hell and he's not gonna take it anymore. Or at least that's the message he sent to parents in his district, where 20 charter schools have given opportunity to thousands of kids. He thinks it's all one big scam. More >>
Seems like NYPD's obsession with numbers and with CompStat is starting to do harm to local neighborhoods throughout the city. Officers say that they're under intense pressure to meet precinct quotas, which are reported up to One Police Plaza. More >>
I find tax policy to be endlessly complicated, so I'm still not sure how MTA's budget went from "ok" to "holy crap" in a matter of a few months. Can't you forecast this stuff? More >>
