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February 16, 2007
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For three local legislators, their votes Feb. 7 for or against Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli as State Comptroller pivoted on whether they believed Governor Spitzer or the leaders of the State Senate and Assembly overstepped their bounds. More...
Say Patient Care to Suffer

President Bush's proposed health-care cuts would have a devastating impact locally, with the head of the union representing city doctors claiming the reductions "could destroy the public hospital system." Mr. Bush's budget would ax $25.8 billion from Medicaid, which provides a significant amount o... More...

In HHC, Schools

A battle is brewing over which union should represent the city's School Safety Agents and Health and Hospital Corporation officers, with a small new labor organization laying claim to the uniformed workers and seeking to force an employee vote to decide the issue. More...


Elliott "Lee" Sander, the new Chief Executive Officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has been popping up in some unexpected places this winter. "I sold my first MetroCard last week, up in The Bronx," Mr. Sander said Feb. 9 during an interview. "I've been going out into the field an... More...


Call Class-Size Reduction Key

Teachers may not all share the same opinion of Mayor Bloomberg's plans to dramatically reshape education here, but there is one topic on which they agree: size matters. Interviews with city Teachers last week indicated that many are frustrated with the Mayor's moves to reorganize the school system... More...


Thirty-two thousand members of District Council 37's Health and Security Plan got letters last month warning them that a disc containing their names and Social Security numbers had been lost, leaving them vulnerable to possible identity theft. According to a letter sent to an Emergency Medical Ser... More...


Mayor Bloomberg more than once has spoken about the valuable work that the city's social service workers perform. It sometimes seems, however, that he doesn't place much value on that work in the form of salary and benefits. A couple of years ago, when Mr. More...
It was clear that Alvarez and Marsal, the firm brought in under a no-bid contract to transform the Department of Education, wasn't doing its job when Mayor Bloomberg referred to critics like Betsy Gotbaum as "people who have no experience in doing anything. More...
To the Editor:
The Chief-Leader strikes out again. Its editorial response to the first installment of "Setting the Record Straight," the paid-ad column that we intend to run monthly in this newspaper (Feb. 9 issue), gives further evidence of the pro-management bias that led us to begin running the column in the f... More...
Q.: I am nearing 70 years of age and will be retiring on April 1. The combined balances of my Deferred Compensation 457(b) and 401(k) accounts is about $1 million. I will have to start Required Minimum Distributions next year. More...
Starting Pay Is $26G; 2,000 Jobs Available; Need H.S. Diploma To Be Hired; Written Test Set June 9
Filing is now open for an exam leading to Sanitation Worker jobs, the Department of Citywide Administrative Services said. Applications must be submitted by March 27. The starting salary is $26,000, which rises to $30,811 after six months, and $57,392 after 5-1/2 years. The multiple-choice test i... More...

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