Tag: Michael Bloomberg
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An App A Day
New York City announces the winners of a competition to use city data to create apps. Some call it a positive step toward transparency, but others think the data is not nearly open enough. (keep reading…) -
The Architecture of Healthiness
An in-depth look at how Mayor Michael Bloomberg is quietly trying to design buildings to Make New Yorkers healthier.
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Issue 24: Bloomberg, Uninterrupted
Check out the full text of Ben Adler’s cover story about whether mayoral third terms—like the one looming for New York’s Michael Bloomberg—are a good idea. (keep reading…) -
A Fair Urban Tax Code?
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg wants to punish waitresses to protect Wall Streeters. (keep reading…) -
Mayor Bloomberg Addresses the U.S. Conference of Mayors
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg emphasized education in his address to the U.S. Conference of Mayors. (keep reading…) -
Cities Break Out the Piggy Bank
Hoping to staunch the financial crisis’s toll on city dwellers, cities are creating offices of financial empowerment. Aimed at cities’ low- and moderate-income constituents, these programs attempt to break the cycle of debt and aid social mobility, even in these tough times. (keep reading…) -
“Big City” Bailout Request Looks Better than Reported, says Nutter’s Office
Earlier this month Philadelphia’s Mayor Michael Nutter hand-delivered a letter to 1500 Pennsylvania Ave, addressed to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson and signed by himself and the mayors of Atlanta and Phoenix. In it he asked for cities to be included alongside banks, financial institutions and automobile manufacturers as recipients of the $700 billion TARP bailout package. That afternoon, the story got top billing on the Drudge Report. Days later it got nothing but ignored and, at best, derided. So what happened? (keep reading…) -
Obama Team Announces Office of Urban Policy
While he first floated the idea of a cabinet position to coordinate urban policy at the annual conference of mayors in Miami this past summer, now Obama has promised action. (keep reading…) -
New Yorkers Found to be Breathing American Air, Mayor Gasps
On the last day of October a district court found that New York City would have to put a hold on its plan to replace its city’s taxi cabs with hybrid cars. Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired back by invoking the threat that the court’s ruling would prevent “all cities” from taking their environment and health into their own hands. I talked with some experts to see how real the threat was. (keep reading…) -
Park Ave. Goes Pedestrian
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announce the pedestrian and bicycle-friendly initiative, Summer Streets. Kathryn Kondracki reports. (keep reading…) - Page 1 of 2 1 2 >
