News Articles by Elaine Rivera
David Paterson's First 100 Days As Governor
June 30, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
It's been 100 days since Gov. David Paterson took over the top job in New York State government, following Eliot Spitzer’s spectacular fall amidst a call-girl scandal. WNYC’s Elaine Rivera is he....
Paterson Seeks to Reform Excusionary Bond Sale Procedure
June 27, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
Gov. David Paterson says while strides have been made in connecting women and minority-owned businesses in construction and communications to state contracts, there has been a real lack of progress f....
Paterson Expresses Confidence in Skelos as GOP Leader
June 25, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
After giving the commencement speech for Harlem's Frederick Douglass Academy graduates, Governor David Paterson expressed his full confidence in the newly-selected Republican State Senate Majority Le....
Public Hearings On Education Funding
June 10, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
The Department of Education is holding public hearings across the boroughs this week on the city's controversial contracts for excellence school funding proposal. The public will get to chime in on S....
Students Protest City Education Cuts
June 05, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
More than 100 public school teenagers and members of student groups rallied in front of City Hall to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed $450 million budget cuts. The students say the mayor's....
Gotbaum Calls for Pre-K Admissions Overhaul
June 04, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum is calling on the Department of Education to overhaul its centralized pre-kindergarten admissions process. She contends that her office has received numerous complaints ....
New Lawsuit in Steam Pipe Blast
May 30, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
Con Edison has filed a lawsuit against the city and a private company over last year's midtown steam pipe explosion. Con Ed says the city and Texas-based Team Industrial Services were negligent in m....
Parents Protest Daycare Closings
May 29, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
As that deadline looms, dozens of daycare workers, parents and elected officials rallied at City Hall yesterday to protest the closing of daycare centers. They claim the Administration for Children ....
Advocates Rally Against Market Closures
May 29, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
Food commercial workers and city residents rallied at City Hall yesterday to protest the closings of supermarkets in their neighborhoods. Bruce Both is president of the United Food and Commercial W....
Council Members Vow to Oppose Bloomberg School Budget Cuts
May 28, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
More than 20 council members say they will oppose the Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed budget if he does not restore more than $400 million in school cuts. At yet another large rally at City Hall,....
Klein Faces Tough Budget Questions
May 27, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein was grilled over proposed school budget cuts at a fractious City Council hearing, where at one point dozens of audience members were escorted out for interrupting the me....
Silver Criticizes Bloomberg's School Fuding Plan
May 23, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
How state education funding should be spent has pitted state officials and education advocates against the Bloomberg administration. WNYC's Elaine Rivera reports. REPORTER: A brawl has broken out ov....
Quinn Sidesteps Questions on Mayoral Run
May 20, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
At a Midtown breakfast, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was grilled about the discretionary fund scandal and whether it would hurt any future mayoral bid on her part. Quinn sidestepped any ques....
State Unions May Not Get Extra Cash
May 16, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
Though he's a longtime friend of labor, Gov. David Paterson says he cannot accommodate the unions' requests to increase their pensions and ensure benefits. The governor says unions have to face the ....
New Playground Opens in The Bronx, Part of Mayor's Initiative
May 14, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
City officials had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new playground at the Bronx's P.S. 138. It's part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's goal to ensure that all New Yorkers live within a ten-minute walk to....
School Groups Call for Targeted Funding
May 06, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
Educational activists are calling on Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to target $360 million in state funding for specific programs. Representatives for six educational groups contend that money was wo....
Activists Protest Cuts to School Funding
April 30, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
A group of education activists, parents and elected officials rallied at City Hall to say they will fight the the city's plan to cut $500 million from school funding. REPORTER: Helen Rosenthal, chai....
City Spends Millions on Unassigned Teachers
April 29, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
The city is spending more than $80 million dollars over two years on unassigned teachers. A new report by an educational group is recommending new rules for those teachers who've lost jobs to school ....
Group Angry Over Lack of Change to Class Size
April 29, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
The group says a study commissioned by the teachers union backs their claim. City Comptroller Bill Thompson says he'll review how the Education Department spent state funds. WNYC's Elaine Rivera rep....
Bronx Nuns Donate Hosts for Pope's Yankee Stadium Mass
April 18, 2008
by Elaine Rivera
Sixty thousand communion wafers will be dispensed at the Pope's Mass at Yankee Stadium Sunday. The wafers are a donation from the Corpus Christi Monastery in the South Bronx. WNYC's Elaine Rivera rep....
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