
By RICHARD STEIER
The Off-Track Betting Corporation has begun formally notifying its nearly 1,500 employees that they will be laid off beginning June 16 unless the state takes action to stem its pending financial losses. Those workers received further disquieting news when OTB President Raymond V.
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By RICHARD STEIER
United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten announced April 11 that she will seek the presidency of her national union, even as she vowed to remain in her present job. It is widely believed that Ms. More...
Union Shares Riders' Concerns

By ARI PAUL
In the parlance of some young urban professionals, "riding the G train" denotes a sense of being down on one's luck, as if the idea of commuting on the only subway line that doesn't enter Manhattan is a mark of second-class citizenship. More...

By RICHARD STEIER
Closing arguments in the trial of three Detectives accused in the 2006 killing of Sean Bell outside a Queens nightclub were delivered April 14 by their lawyers and the Queens District Attorney's Office. Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Cooperman, who heard the case without a jury at the Detectives... More...