Topic: Lew Fidler
Certified by the Campaign Finance Board: Brooklyn Councilman Lew Fidler ripped off the taxpayers to the tune of $88,550.. . Rolling in private...
Visitors to New York may soon have to shell out a little more money to enjoy their stay.. . The cash-strapped city is mulling an increase in hotel...
The big bungle on Election Day. . Staten Island: When I was voting Tuesday, the scanner jammed, saying, "Not registered. Remove ballot." The worker...
Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron said Monday his new minority-led Freedom Party got enough signatures to get on the statewide ballot against the...
There is plenty of bad news in the budget Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed today, but--hard as this may be to believe--it could have been worse.The strategy from City Hall seems to have been to soften the blow, at least on the ...
When Michael Bloomberg called City Council members gutless for not supporting a 7 percent property tax hike, it marked a sharp departure from the spirit of cooperation he tried forging after the contentious vote on term limits. According to one City Councilman ...
City Councilman Lew Fidler said the Ravich plan to tax businesses one third of one percent in order to help fund the M.T.A. sounds familiar. Fidler said it was part of the traffic plan he proposed months ago as an ...
The National Committee for the Furtherance for Jewish Education held their annual empowerment breakfast in a small hotel room on Ninth Avenue yesterday morning, where the talk of politics was unavoidable.Breakfast chair Suri Kasirer called City Comptroller Bill Thompson to the ...
said Citizens Union executive director Dick Dadey to Councilman Councilman David Yassky.He was talking about Yassky's amendment to the term-limits bill, which would have required the measure to go to a voter referendum in the future, even if the bill ...
City Councilman Lew Fidler said he understands why some people, and some members of Congress, opposed the federal bailout legislation.It seems like its OK for an individual to lose their house, but its not OK for Merrill Lynch to lose its ...
