Mayor Eric Adams announced a revised $111.6 billion budget plan on Wednesday that avoids new spending cuts and increases estimates of the city’s tax haul, reflecting his administration’s increasingly sunny view of New York’s finances. But the proposal rebuffs the City Council’s request to undo far more of the billions of dollars in cuts he has ordered since last year, setting the stage for a tug-of-war with lawmakers in the coming weeks.The budget restores $80 million for childhood programs, cultural organizations and police classes that he had previously cut starting last year, when he warned that the migrant crisis and shrinking federal aid would lead to alarming shortfalls in the coming years. And City Hall says it has staved off the need for further cuts thanks to an improving economy, money from the state and its own efforts to pare down spending, especially on migrants — although critics have charged that the administration overstated the need for the initial cuts in the first place.“Thanks to our discipline and prudent approach, we’re able to invest in the things that matter to New Yorkers,” Adams said in a City Hall speech on Wednesday. The mayor has made a show in recent months of reversing some of the cuts he ordered beginning in November, no doubt conscious of polls that showed his approval rating plummeting amid widespread disapproval of his budgeting.Adams’ executive budget, which has grown compared to his $109 billion January plan, will serve as a framework... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
[ Crains New York | 2024-04-24 16:53:57 UTC ]
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“Becoming Wild” shows us that humans are much more intrinsically linked to other species than we realize. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-14 07:24:48 UTC ]
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Around the world, versions of the same question are being debated all at once: now what? In recent weeks, multiple countries and jurisdictions have taken steps to ease the lockdown measures they imposed to stop the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. France begins a... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-05-11 12:05:11 UTC ]
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Daniel Radcliffe, David Beckham and Dakota Fanning are among a handful of celebrities who will be reading various chapters of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone/Sorcerer’s Stone” exclusively on Spotify. The move underscores the streaming giant's efforts to invade all things digital audio. Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2020-05-05 18:54:51 UTC ]
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Manchester-based indie Carcanet Press has joined forces with Little Island Press. Little Island becomes a new imprint of Carcanet, which will develop it as its prose arm. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-05 15:17:07 UTC ]
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Anna Solomon’s retelling of the Purim story entwines the past and present beautifully. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-04 13:00:00 UTC ]
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The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating a planned shift from print to digital at Michigan-based BNP Media, where management has informed staffers that the company will be phasing out the print editions of all of its controlled-circulation trade magazines by the end of July. The... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-04-28 15:18:48 UTC ]
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Reporter Eric Eyre exposes the people and companies that flooded the state with pills. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-23 10:39:28 UTC ]
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Watch the live broadcast here on April 28 at 3 p.m. EDT. RSVP here—and join the conversation on Facebook, Periscope, LinkedIn and Twitter. Ad Age 20-Minute Takes is a virtual event series tackling how marketers and buyers can, or should, adjust their strategies in the current climate. Leading... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2020-04-22 15:00:00 UTC ]
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With Axel Scheffler's illustrations and Hugh Bonneville's narration, Nosy Crow's 'Coronavirus: A Book for Children' is a free download. The post Nosy Crow’s Free Digital Book for Kids About COVID-19 Takes Off appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-04-21 11:52:42 UTC ]
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It’s hard to imagine an industry more poorly prepared for the arrival of a global pandemic than the media business. Even before “coronavirus” became a household word, the industry was already reeling from a series of body blows, most of them delivered by Google and Facebook and their dominance... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-04-20 11:45:00 UTC ]
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It’s no surprise that people read a lot when stuck at home. But novels are more than a way to kill timeIt’s no surprise that keen readers have looked to books for historical analogues or literary insights into the coronavirus outbreak. Sales of the English translation of Albert Camus’s 1947... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-04-19 17:25:44 UTC ]
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Jenny Downham answers our questions about her latest YA novel, Furious Thing (David Fickling Books), which has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2020. 1. Can you sum up Furious Thing in one sentence? There are many ways a girl’s sense of self can be whittled away — this book explores what... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-16 09:06:03 UTC ]
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Jonathan Cape has bought Jeet Thayil’s new novel Names of the Women – a retelling of the New Testament from the points of view of the women whose roles have been suppressed, reduced or erased from the gospels. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-08 17:55:40 UTC ]
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Jennie Allen’s treatise against negative thoughts in ‘Get Out of Your Head’ takes #1 in Religion Nonfiction; Colleen Coble’s new romance lands at #4 in Religion Fiction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Diamond Distributors founder Steve Geppi outlined the terms under which the distributor of comics, graphic novels, and prose books would resume payments to publishers and other vendors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperNonFiction is releasing an early audiobook edition of Adam Buxton's memoir in May—its first to be recorded entirely remotely. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-01 21:06:52 UTC ]
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At Informa, parent company of Taylor & Francis, top bosses are to take salary cuts "through the current period of uncertainty created by Covid-19", the company has announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-27 06:47:25 UTC ]
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As the virus’s spread continues, another conference is canceled, more stores close, and disruptions ripple across the industry. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Mining magnate took over page two and three of the Australian for his grand scheme. Plus: News Corp journos forced to take leaveOn Friday the Australian published a double-page advertisement paid for by the mining magnate Clive Palmer, promoting his plan to fund 1m doses of the malaria drug... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-03-27 01:06:05 UTC ]
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Arts Council England (ACE) has announced a £160m emergency funding package to help artists and art organisations cope with the coronavirus crisis. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-25 04:57:11 UTC ]
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