AltWeeklies Wire
Pols Promise Change; Many New Yorkers Wonder What the Word Really Meansnew
With seemingly insurmountable problems in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza, the Labor Department announcement that another 524,000 jobs were lost last month and Democrats and Republicans still struggling to find a strategy to get the economy back on track, people are left wondering: What does change really mean?
New York Press |
Allen McDuffee |
01-22-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: Barack Obama, New York
In the Midst of a Fiscal Crisis, Will New York State Break its Addiction to Consultants?new
A new report from one of New York's largest unions says that the state's addiction to hiring consultants to do the work that state employees are more than capable of doing is unnecessarily costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year and adding to the already out-of-control deficit.
New York Press |
Allen McDuffee |
12-18-2008 |
Politics
