Bloomberg's austere forecast will also serve a political purpose, given the mayor’s desire to wring more money out of the Legislature and to abolish a law that protects veteran teachers. The City Council with Quinn more to separate from the mayor will also demand a say on what goes where. Bloomberg’s Budget to Include Teacher Layoffs (NYT) * NYC mayor's prelim budget plan: Cut teaching jobs(WSJ) * Sources: Mayor To Move Ahead With Thousands Of Teacher Layoffs (NY1) * Budget Bloomberg: “His budget is far from final: it must still be negotiated with the City Council, and it is subject to the whims of Albany.” (The New York Times) * Budgeting NYC: “Over 6,000 teaching jobs are headed to the chopping block. That’s one in every 12 public school teachers in the Big Apple.” (CBS New York) * NJ Gov. Chris Christie sees common ground between himself and “the son of a liberal icon” who’s in charge across the Hudson.
Pink Slip Threats to Teachers Largest teacher layoff since the 70's
Threaten to eliminate 6,166 teaching positions in total: 4,666 through layoffs and 1,500 through attrition. * More than 4,600 teachers may be fired to balance the budget: officials (DN) * Ms. Black Goes to Albany (Gotham Gazette) * "We pay roughly $18K per pupil" in public schools Bloomberg.
Albany Decides Which Teacher Go
The only thing worse than laying off teachers would be laying off the wrong teachers. *New Tenure Rules Proposed WSJ) * NJ joins NYC war on LIFO (NYP)
UFT Plays Defense
Union officials have dismissed the mayor’s warnings as political jockeying meant to help him further his political agenda.
Establishment Attacks UFT
UFT top guy in Albany Paul Egan played into the hands of the NYP and Daily News who have been banging the drums to change the LIFO state law. Meet Paul Egan -- chiseler, cheat and UFT honcho Michael Mulgrew's main man in Albany.(DN Ed) * Fat-cat feeding frenzy UFT official's knuckleheaded restaurant snit fit shows just what the union is made of (NYP Ed) * Paul Egan: As a teacher, he reportedly told students, “Don’t tell anyone that I helped you.” (New York Post) * Cheating Scandal: Current teacher union rep accused of helping students cheat in 2000. (nydailynews.com) * The UFT big tossed from an Albany restaurant had a role in a 2000 student cheating scandal.
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All the News Since the Morning Papers
Morris Gets 1 1/3 to 4 Years Behind Bars (Updated) (YNN) * Political Consultant Hank Morris Receives Maximum Prison Sentence (NY1) * Hevesi Aide Sentenced to Up to Four Years in Prison *Gov. Cuomo On Hank Morris Lockup: Good * Advisor to ex-NY comptroller gets prison sentence*New York pension scammer is heading to prisonFortune * City Room: Hevesi Adviser Is Sentenced in Pension Scandal (NYT)* Document Drop: Hank Morris Sentencing * Family weeps as Morris gets 1 1/3 to 4 years for role in pension fund scandal (NYP)
If you have money, Wall Street and political connections like Steve Rattner Hank Morris partner in the Pension Crimes, You Walk
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Pack Your Bags Hevesi
Where are the Reforms Comptroller DiNapoli and Liu? Will any of the reporters ask them if this can happen again?
Jail Has Not Stop Corruption in Albany Comptroller Tom DiNapoli: Hank Morris Sentence Should Serve As A Deterrent For Pension Schemers
DiNapoli: Morris Sentence ‘Fitting’
“Last month, I proposed a bill that would strip convicted former public officials of their pensions. Public officials who commit a felony related to their duties shouldn’t be rewarded. There are better ways to spend New York’s tax dollars than to support retired felons who ripped off the public.” Comptroller DiNapoli. For the record, Morris was never an elected official or a public employee (at least not to my knowledge), and therefore doesn’t have a pension. (YNN)
Mayor Bloomberg unveils $68.8 billion city budget; fire dept., senior centers, teachers face cuts: Mayor Bloomb * NYC mayor to only cut capital spending by 10 pct (Reuters) * Cuomo proposes NY independent redistricting bill (NYP) * Bill Thompson Named Head of Cuomo's MWBE Task Force To expand minority and women owned business(NYO) * The Madness of City Property Taxes (NYO) * Albany and DC budget cuts mean we have to use City tax dollars to make up the difference * Espada Spent $1.2M On His Office in Six Months (Gannett Albany) * Grand jury indicts woman accused of kidnapping baby from Harlem in 1987 - NBC News * Hey big (Senate Democratic) spenders
MTA scraps plan to hire scandal-plauged CityTime for new subway radio station
Will Cuomo Be Able to Break Skelos on Redistricting
NYT Reports Madoff Met with Lawyer Irving H. Picard, Never Happened
Picard who has lawsuit against the Met owners and others who many $$$ off of Madoff Ponzi Scam. Madoff victims' trustee disputes report of meeting (WSJ) * Trustee denies he met with Madoff - Boston Globe * 
Weighing Madoff’s Claims of Complicity (NYT) * Sewell Chan has been named The NY Times' Deputy Op-Ed Editor.
Was Madoff Also lying when he said that the Wilpons did not know about his ponzi scam?
Mets Owner: "We Will Be Vindicated" In Regards To Madoff Investing: Mets owner Fred Wilpon is taking his strongest...
Report: Mets' debt continues to spiral (Fox News Sports)
Madoff fallout may well force Fred Wilpon to sell his beloved Mets(SI.Com)
New York Mets And Citi Field Debt Selling At Big DiscountsForbes
Day-Care Service Faces Deep Cuts in Mayor's Budget (WSJ) No childcare for 16,624 children* Budget Cuts to Child Care Biggest in Decades, Advocates Say (WNYC)
More Budget Battles Mental health care is emerging as a battleground in the effort to cut Medicaid.* NYC lawmakers want to save state funds for senior centers.
True News Bum of the Day: Liz Krueger
State Senator Krueger elected in 2002 has voted for the last eight state budgets which has destroyed the state's economy. She is directly responsible for all the coming cutbacks in child care. The press is not doing their job if they allow Krueger to cry in press about the tragic effects of the cutback when she caused the need for the these drastic actions Senator Krueger Discusses: Fears About How the City’s Budget Will Affect Child Care
Newsflash: driving in New York is really obnoxious. Just askCouncil Speaker Christine Quinn joined City Hall for an On/Off the Record breakfast to expand on many of the proposals from her State of the City address — but steered clear of details on several issues that were left out of her annual speech. (CHN) Christine Quinn. *
Budget Ray of Hope
Mayor's Budget Sees a Windfall New York City tax revenue this year is expected to be $2 billion higher than budget officials anticipated, a windfall that obviates plans to slash teaching positions beyond the 6,166 slots Mayor Bloomberg proposed cutting in November. (WSJ) * City's $2B in found money (NYP) * Joan Grolla: “The city’s mayors have for years conservatively estimated how much tax revenue they can rely on, a policy that pleases fiscal monitors and curbs how much extra money the Democratic-led City Council can add to the budget. So the $2 billion revised revenue forecast might be an under-estimate.” (WPIX.com)
NYT To Bloomberg: Tell Us When You Leave
When the Mayor’s Away The president, the governor and other mayors share their travel plans with the public and press. Mayor Michael Bloomberg should do the same. (NYT Ed)
Will Hank Morris Be the Only One to Go to Jail for the Pension Pay to Play Scandal?
AG to demand prison time for disgraced political consultant Hank Morris in pension pay-to-play scam (DN) * Reducing Pensions:(columbiaspectator.com) “something that was created 40 years ago just doesn’t work anymore,” says Bloomberg spokesman.* Hank Morris faces sentencing in NY pension fund scheme (NYP)
City hopes NASA can fix 911 system It may take a rocket scientist to fix NYC's sputtering 911 system. The city wants to hire a NASA lab to evaluate its Emergency Communications Transformation Program (DN)
Koch Bridge Falling Down
Is the Queensboro a bridge too far for Ed Koch? Meh, says the ex-mayor (DN Ed)
Can it kids! Ridgewood, Glendale top the city for graffiti complaints despite lower total numbers (DN)
Obama demands Egypt round up thugs who brutalized CBS reporter (NYP)
Anderson Cooper Interrogates A Disgraced Nir Rosen Over Lara Logan Twitter ‘Jokes’ (video)
Black Oil
Andrea Peyser likens Bloomberg’s hiring of NYC Schools Chancellor Cathie Black to tapping “a BP executive to explain an oil spill.”
NYS Water Peace
State officials have brokered a peace agreement between NYC and the communities living near its upstate drinking water system.
New Security Plan for Statue of Liberty Is Delayed (N YT)
Prosecutor to Review Ex-Chief’s Expense Account at Abortion-Rights Group (NYT)
Why No Criminal Indictments of Signalgate?
Internal charges of faking MTA inspections filed in 'Signalgate;' workers contend they're scapegoats (DN)
Neighborhood once considered untouchable
A Stickup on Arthur Avenue. Where? On Arthur Avenue?(NYT)
Are the Police Faking More Numbers?
Brooklyn's 77th Precinct probed for fudging crime stats(DN)
Law and Order
FBI's most wanted bank robber strikes for seventh time, with no sign of stopping (DN) * FBI: "Holiday Bandit" Strikes Again (DN) * Bloodbath slasher too crazed for court date (NYP) * A 'crack' salesman (NYP) * Hero clerk foils robbery by riding hood's hood (NYP) * A New Crackdown Yields 14 Indictments Against a Youthful Harlem Gang(NYT) * Gang Case Arrests Are Made(WSJ) * Freed Man’s Suit Accuses Brooklyn Prosecutors of Misconduct (NYT) * Freed Prisoner Alleges Prosecutorial Misconduct(WSJ) * Wife of NYPD deputy inspector lied when she said masked black man beat her up, cops say (DN) * Teens pick wrong man to rob - an ex-cop (DN) * Paper clips, no staples for ex-mob boss Vinny Gorgeous - Jail Officials (DN) * Manhattan hedge funder charged with $4M Ponzi scheme may be on lam in Italy (NYP) * NY tax preparer gets prison for fraud(WSJ) * FBI believes same man robbed 7 NYC banks * A former top fundraiser for Hillary Clinton was indicted * Police Link Two Bronx Rapes Through DNA
TerrorismDaily News' Terror Scribe Joins Peter King's Court; 'It's Kind of Like Working In a Think Tank'
Life Sentence For JFK Cargo Handler Convicted Of Terrorist Plot: A former cargo handler at John F. Kennedy Airport...
Cargo handler sentenced to life for JFK fuel tanker plot
Twitter Me %7Fu*!# You
Rahm Emanuel wants his mystery tweeter exposed(DN) Chicago mayoral hopeful offers up $5G to charity if person behind @MayorEmanuel comes forward. (DN) * Apparently Donald Trump gave $50,000 to Rahm Emanuel's mayoral campaign.
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Donald Trump is now pro-life- or so he says, after years of supporting abortion rights. Seems a little coincidental given his recent hints at a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, no?
Wisconsin Fightback to Cut Backs
Wisconsin Workers Protest Budget Fix(WSJ) * 'Day of Rage' Hits Wisconsin... *Wis. lawmakers flee state to block anti-union bill (AP)
