Business Community Fighting Against NYC 'Living Wage' Bill
The bill, if enacted, would require any company receiving city contracts or subsidies to pay their workers a minimum of $10 per hour with benefits or $11.50 per hour without benefits.
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The bill, if enacted, would require any company receiving city contracts or subsidies to pay their workers a minimum of $10 per hour with benefits or $11.50 per hour without benefits.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday says that more than three-quarters of parents with children in public schools disapprove of how the mayor has handled the schools.
It's a big step forward for a historic and controversial adoption bill. Lawmakers approved a plan Tuesday to unseal birth records for adoptees in New Jersey.
As if ticket fixing isn't serious enough, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio says there are even more troublesome allegations involving the NYPD.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Gregory Jaczko called his tour of Indian Point "very good."
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is telling New Yorkers that lobbyists are fiercely fighting his property tax proposal and he needs their help.
Malloy says his administration needs to begin the process of laying off thousands because a two-year, $2 billion labor savings deal has not yet been reached.
Those for lifting the moratorium say increasing oil supplies will help lower gas prices, but the Sierra Club's Jeff Tittel says it's not worth threatening beaches.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn insisted that the banks must take responsibility for the buildings, saying that officials will "hold the banks accountable."
"I'm a kid from Jersey who has people asking him to run for president. I'm thrilled by it," he said. "I just don't want to do it."
The Mount Kisco Urban Renewal Agency, the City of New Rochelle Parking Authority, and the Nyack Urban Renewal Agency, are just some of the agencies that he says do nothing.
Sixteen months after 9-year-old Sean Goldman was led through a crush of journalists and onlookers on a Rio de Janeiro street to return to his father, David Goldman became an activist for reuniting parents with kids abducted to other countries.
A review of state records has found that New York's prisons are running at about 88 percent capacity.
New York City teachers will meet on Monday to protest Mayor Bloomberg's proposed budget that would call for more than 6,000 teach cuts.
In addition to cutting more than 6,000 teaching jobs from New York City's public schools, Mayor Bloomberg's proposed $67 billion spending plan could force 20 fire companies to close.
