Michele Maglione, who has overseen the Fire Department's minority recruiting efforts since January of 2006, believed that the secret to hiring more women and people of color as Firefighters was footwork. After the department's announcement Nov.
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By RICHARD STEIER
A Manhattan judge has ruled that three former officers of Hospital Workers Local 420 of District Council 37 must repay the local $485,000, counting interest, for unauthorized payments they received in the form of wage hikes, and expenses and other payments. Those payments were made between 1997 and 2002, the year all three lost re-election bids. More...
Protest Klein's Firing Squad
By MEREDITH KOLODNER
Hundreds of Teachers turned out Nov. 26 for a quietly organized candlelight vigil in front of the Department of Education to protest an initiative to help Principals fire Teachers they believe are incompetent. The sidewalk demonstration snaked from the DOE's main Manhattan building on Chambers St. More...
By ARI PAUL
An Emergency Medical Service officer who worked 100 hours at Ground Zero during the first two weeks after 9/11 died Nov. 26 from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Appointed to EMS in March of 1993, Lieut. Brian Ellicott, 45, was an active member of Emergency Medical Dispatch and on 9/11 was working at EMS Station 4 on South St. More...
Bringing Residency To Council's House